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ANKARA (AA) – The Kremlin has said it is concerned about the situation in the Karabakh region and called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to exercise restraint and implement the tripartite agreements. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan may exchang...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO has urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to end hostilities as fighting flared up in the region of Karabakh. “NATO calls for an immediate end of hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces,” Javier Colomina, the NATO secretary-general’s special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia wrote on Twitter. He add...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli airlines have obtained Saudi permission to cross its airspace, Israeli media reported. The official I24NEWS channel said Thursday that the Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia, obtained the Saudi approval to fly over its airspace, and the approval took effect Wednesday. Saudi Arabia will also allow other fore...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Hashd al-Shaabi, who is backed by Iran, has rejected the call of Moqtada al-Sadr to dissolve Iraq parliament and hold early elections. Falih al-Fayyad, in a statement to Al-Jazeera, said “the proposal of Al-Sadr to resolve the crisis can be discussed to reach a consensus, however, dissolving the parliament is a big [...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lara Hayek has been in a coma for two years since the massive explosion at the Beirut Port in Lebanon. On Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut was rocked by a massive explosion that changed the course of events and upended the lives of many people in the country. More than 200 Lebanese lost […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – After a five-month hiatus, negotiators reconvened in Vienna on Thursday for a fresh round of talks to salvage a 2015 Iran nuclear accord. Under the shadow of Tehran’s rapidly expanding nuclear program, the highly anticipated indirect talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the EU, resumed on a subdued note [&hellip...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistan government has announced that it is moving the country’s top court to seek the disqualification of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for receiving prohibited funds through foreign sources. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said at a news conference in capital Islamabad that the Law Ministr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of people supporting Bangladesh’s main opposition political party on Thursday held a massive rally in the capital Dhaka to protest the killing of two party members in an earlier demonstration on Sunday. According to sources, the supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clashed with pol...
BEIRUT (AA) – More parts of the damaged grain silos at Beirut’s port collapsed on Thursday, coinciding with the second anniversary of the blast that killed hundreds. Four more grain silos collapsed in the northern part of the port. Dust blanketed the surrounding areas following the collapse of large sections of the silos, which had...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (AA) – Dozens of patients were evacuated after a fire erupted at a Greek hospital in Istanbul. Some 80 patients, mostly elderly people, in Balikli Greek Hospital were shifted to nearby medical facilities as flames engulfed the roof of the historic building in the Zeytinburnu district. The cause is still unknown and no one [&hel...
