WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Indonesia and Thailand this week, the State Department has said. Blinken will travel Wednesday to Bali to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting, where spokesman Ned Price said he will reinforce the US’ commitment to working with international partners to confront g...
LONDON (AA) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said that trade between Brazil and Arab League nations reached “a record” of more than $24 billion in 2021. “This figure is expected to continue rising. From January to April, Brazil’s exports to the Arab world jumped from $4 billion in 2021 to $5.2 billion in 2...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues hit an all-time high, recording $7 billion in the last fiscal year, according to local authorities. Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said in a statement that the international waterway’s revenues rose by 20.7% from $5.8 billion in the fiscal year 2020-2021. Rabie said 22,032 shi...
Tripoli, Libya – AFP A bulldozer was used to smash through part of a gate during the storming of Liby’a parliament on Friday, which allowed other demonstrators to enter more easily, while cars of officials were set on fire. Later protesters began to break through the building’s walls with construction equipment. The parliamen...
MADRID (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance must diversify its energy suppliers as Russia uses energy “as a weapon.” “The war in Ukraine shows the danger of being too dependent on commodities from authoritarian regimes. The way Russia is using energy as a weapon of coercion highlights the need t...
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (AA) – Reaffirming their unified stance in support of Ukraine, the Group of Seven economic powers have vowed to impose “severe and immediate economic costs” on Russia for its war on Ukraine. Leaders of the seven countries wrapped up their summit in Germany hours after a Russian missile strike on a shopping […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The US Treasury Department has announced that it has prohibited Russian gold imports and imposed sanctions on 70 Russian entities and 29 individuals. The move applies to gold of Russian origin but does not include gold located outside of Russia. Gold is Moscow’s biggest non-energy export and Russia is fourth in the [&...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday arrived in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, his first foreign visit since the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Opening the meeting, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon said Moscow and Dushanbe are allies and have a strategic partnership. “Today...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Residents in remote areas of Bangladesh have started an intense struggle for potable water because of discriminatory budget allocation for those areas and an unrelenting destruction of the ecology — especially in hilly areas. Just 5.44% of the Annual Development Program was allocated for the Water, S...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In response to the latest announcement by the G7 nations regarding the launch of a $600 billion global infrastructure initiative, China has said that the G7 nations should bring “real money and projects that actually benefit the people.” “What the international community wants to see is real money and projects that actual...
