ANKARA (AA) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will not run in the upcoming elections, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. Bennett’s decision has come ahead of voting on the final readings of a bill that proposes dissolving the Knesset and calling an early election. Right-wing Yamina Party leader Bennett will remain ...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Council has approved a negotiating mandate on visa liberalization for Qatari and Kuwaiti nationals traveling to the EU. A proposal by the European Commission on short-stay visas for Qatar and Kuwait has been approved and “on the basis of this mandate, the presidency will start negotiations with the European Par...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Turkish and US presidents agreed on “continued close consultations” between Washington and Ankara during a meeting in Madrid, the White House said on Wednesday. The meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden took place on the margins of the NATO summit. The two leaders discussed Sweden and Finlan...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Republican Senator Lindsey Graham threw his support Wednesday behind a decision by the US on upgrading Türkiye’s F-16 fighter jet fleet. “I support the Biden Administration’s decision to support the sale of new F-16s to our NATO ally, Turkey,” Graham, who represents South Carolina, said on Twitter. ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati has said that he has handed his government formation to the country’s President Michel Aoun. “I have handed President Aoun the cabinet line-up that I see fit,” Mikati told reporters following his meeting with Aoun. On Tuesday, Mikati concluded his parliamen...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Prominent Indian Muslim organizations and leaders have called the murder of a Hindu man in India’s Rajasthan state on Tuesday a “disgrace to humanity and an act of defaming Islam.” The Muslim leaders responded to a video posted on social media by two men claiming to have committed a murder of […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The chairperson of the African Union Commission on Wednesday called on both Sudan and Ethiopia to refrain from military escalation over the al-Fashqa border area. Al Fashqa, a northern border triangle between Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea, has been a disputed territory for over a decade between Sudan and Ethiop...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sudan has said that it is exercising self-restraint amid ongoing tension with Ethiopia over the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers. “The government’s duty is to defend its territory and citizens,” Foreign Ministry undersecretary Dafallah Al-Hajj Ali said in a statement carried by the state news agency SUNA. “Sudan i...
ANKARA (AA): The indictment of suspected ISIS member Ayshat Rzaeva has been accepted by the Ankara 26th High Criminal Court. Russian national Ayshat Rzaeva was caught in Ankara in 2021 while being sought on an Interpol Red Notice on the grounds that she was a member of the group. The indictment filed by the Ankara […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog met this week with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman, his office stated on Wednesday. Herzog’s office, however, did not specify when the meeting exactly took place, only saying that it came upon an invitation from the Jordanian monarch. “Ahead of US President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s vi...
