BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania will hold a meeting on the Open Balkan initiative in early June, Serbia’s president said on Friday, asserting that “great things” are in the offing. “Open Balkan is the best initiative for the peoples of the Balkans,” Aleksandar Vucic said after a virtual meeting with Albanian [&helli...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf for committing “violations.” According to reports, Greek oil tankers Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon have been moved to Iranian waters a few miles off the Persian Gulf coast. It came shortly after a […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council failed to adopt new US-backed sanctions on North Korea on Thursday due to opposition from China and Russia. The council’s 13 other members voted in favor of the new economic penalties in response to Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and nuclear tests. But China and Russia’s statuses...
ANKARA – The US has imposed sanctions on an international network accused of oil smuggling and money laundering that it said was led by officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and supported by Russia. The network has “facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil” for the […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s National Drought Relief Committee has said 6.9 million people in the country are facing severe water shortages and food insecurity as the worst droughts in decades have escalated in the region. The drought has affected 90% of the country’s landmass and 66 districts across the county. Abdirahman ...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Bakers in Burkina Faso downed their shutters nationwide on Thursday in protest against the government’s refusal to let them increase the price of bread to match the rising wheat prices. The strike came after weeks of discussions between the umbrella federation of owners of bakeries and confectioneries and the Trade Ministry ov...
TEHRAN, Iran – The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the seizure of an Iranian-flagged ship in Greece’s territorial waters. The ministry described the seizure as “an example of international banditry.” Earlier, Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) issued a statement, describing the...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – As the Ukraine war drags on, more and more Russian professionals are moving to Dubai — the business-friendly Gulf emirate that offers an escape from the impact of Western sanctions. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and art dealers are among those flocking to the financial hub in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – A Taliban spokesman in the Qatari capital of Doha told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that negotiations between the Afghan interim government along with Turkiye and Qatar have not stopped. Mohammed Naim Wardak from the group’s political office said an agreement signed with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) concerned ground ope...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye will continue to stand by the Palestinian people for independent and sovereign Palestine, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye will pursue normalized ...
