TEHRAN (AA): Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi will lead a high-ranking government delegation on a maiden three-nation tour of Latin America on Sunday as his administration seeks expansion of ties with “friendly countries.” Accompanied by ministers of foreign affairs, defense, oil, and health, Raisi will visit Venezuela, Cuba an...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Iran is building two new reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power plant to fulfill the country’s growing electricity needs. Bushehr Governor Ahmad Mohammadizadeh said the new reactors, being built by young Iranian engineers without any help from foreign experts, would each have a capacity of 1,800 megawatts. Bushehr nucle...
ISLAMABAD (AA): The interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan said Thursday that poppy cultivation in the country has been “almost eradicated” and praised a recent report by a UK-based organization which acknowledged their efforts at the global level. Hafiz Zia Ahmad, the deputy spokesman at Afghan Foreign Ministry, credited th...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan and Turkmenistan on Thursday inked a “joint implementation plan” to execute the long-stalled four-nation energy corridor also involving Afghanistan and India. State Minister of Turkmenistan Maksat Babayev and Pakistan’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Musaddiq Malik signed the “TAPI gas...
Putrajaya, Malaysia (AFP): Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday called for stronger collaboration with Malaysia to protect palm oil products threatened by a European Union trade law he termed “discrimination”. The European Parliament adopted the new legislation in April that will ban imports deemed to be driving deforestati...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Two Nigerian states have reduced working days for public workers following a rise in transportation costs, food and other essentials that was triggered by a hike in petrol prices. Edo State in the south and northcentral Kwara State have announced a three-day work week because of the high cost of petrol. Gov. […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday Rome backed efforts to secure an IMF bailout for Tunisia and support to tackle its growing migrant problem. She was speaking after talks in Tunis with President Kais Saied whose country is going through a dire financial crisis. Tunisia is a departure point for [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA): Pakistan is “very hopeful” of finalizing a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this month, according to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “We are still very hopeful that the IMF program will materialize. Our ninth review by the IMF will match all terms and conditions and, hopefully, we’ll have some good news this [&hellip...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh shut down a major power plant on Monday due to a delay in importing coal. The Payra Thermal Power Plant, with a capacity of 1,320 megawatts of electricity, has been completely shut down due to a lack of coal, Shah Golam Mowla, project director of the power plant, told Anadolu. A […]
ANKARA (AA): The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, known as OPEC+, confirmed on Sunday they would keep their current output cuts unchanged until the end of the year, with additional voluntary production cuts from Saudi Arabia of around 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in July. The decision came during the [&he...
