BRUSSELS (AA): The EU foreign ministers have agreed to add seven more people to the EU’s sanctions list over “serious human rights violations in Iran,” including judiciary members and high-ranking civilian officials responsible for “crackdown” on protests. The new listings include a public prosecutor and a deputy judge ...
ANKARA (AA): Israel and Albania on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on military and defense cooperation. The MoU was signed at the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and his Albanian counterpart Niko Peleshi, and it is the first of its kind between the two ministries. [&h...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Wagner mercenaries were returning to base on Sunday as their mutinous leader agreed to go into exile after President Vladimir Putin was forced to accept an amnesty deal. The agreement appears to end the immediate threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army could storm Moscow, but analysts said Wagner’s revolt...
TORONTO (AA): The US, France, the UK, Albania and Ukraine have demanded that the United Nations investigate the “growing military cooperation” between Russia and Iran. In a press briefing, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US envoy to the UN, said on behalf of the nations that the cooperation has allowed Moscow to continue its “br...
ANKARA (AA): Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on three people involved in the “downing” of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. In a statement, Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong said that her country is working closely with the Netherlands and European Union to coordinate sanctions on those who...
ISTANBUL (AA): Malik Shiraz is frantically searching for his brothers in Kalamata, a small town on the southern Greek coast engulfed in a frenzy since last week’s deadly migrant shipwreck. “It was such a small boat. Why did the agents put so many people on it?” he asked, desperation palpable in his voice. By “agents” […]
BEIRUT (AA): The European Union plans to allocate 3.7 million euros to support green and circular economy in Lebanon. In a statement, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) said the EU-funded project will be titled “2Circular.” “The 2Circular project aims to partner with over 50 food and beverage compa...
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 281 families have contacted the Pakistani government for information since the Greek boat tragedy last week, the nation’s interior minister told the parliament on Friday. “82 deceased Pakistani victims had been recovered” after they lost their lives in the tragic boat accident off the coast of Greece on June 14, Rana [&...
Nicosia, Cyprus (AFP): Cypriot emergency services have rescued 45 Syrian migrants from two boats after receiving information that they were in distress near a coastal tourist resort, authorities have said. The eastern Mediterranean island’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said it had brought ashore 29 men, five women and 11 children who...
Berlin, Germany (AFP): German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to drop his opposition to Sweden’s bid to join NATO. Sweden should “sit at the summit table” as a new NATO ally, Scholz told lawmakers in Berlin. “And I call on the re-elected Turkish President Erdogan to no...
