TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that attempts by Western countries to isolate Iran have backfired. Iran marked the beginning of the New Year on Tuesday with nationwide events. Khamenei’s speech at Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad came after three years of the pandemic. In [&hell...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – A freelance journalist, Irfan Mehraj, in Indian-occupied Kashmir has been arrested by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an ongoing probe into alleged “NGO terror funding case,” said an official statement released on Tuesday. “Following comprehensive investig...
ANKARA (AA) — Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conveyed his “deep concern” over increasing attacks and acts of violence in the occupied West Bank in a phone conversation with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog. According to a statement by the Turkish Communication’s Directorate on Tuesday, he underlined the i...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday said that Beijing will work with Russia to “promote a multi-polar world.” On his ninth trip to Russia since being first elected as president in 2013, Xi said: “China will work with Russia to uphold true multilateralism, promote a multi-polar world and greater democracy in international [&h...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has lauded Türkiye and the UN for securing an extension to the Black Sea grain deal. The agreement “has been prolonged and congratulations to the UN and Türkiye for this diplomatic effort,” Borrell told reporters before a meeting of EU foreign ministers. “Let’s hope that this [&hellip...
GENEVA (AA) – The arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin is valid for life, according to International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. “There is no statute of limitations for war crimes,” Khan told BBC Radio 4, adding that the ICC’s arrest warrant remains valid even after Russi...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, the country is still trying to get back on its feet. On March 20, 2003, an international coalition led by the US launched a military operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime on the pretext of dismantling Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, which we...
ANKARA (AA) – Ankara and Cairo have agreed to maximize the diplomatic relations that were stalled after the 2013 military coup in Egypt, according to Türkiye’s foreign minister. “We agreed to maximize our diplomatic relations. We have evaluated what steps we will take in the next process. I invited him (Egyptian Foreign Minis...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian movement Hamas held talks on Sunday with Lebanese group Hezbollah on developments in the occupied territories, the movement said in a statement. A Hamas delegation led by political deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri met with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. “Both sides reviewed th...
Ohrid, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP): Kosovo and Serbia stopped short of signing a potentially landmark deal late Saturday night after holding a marathon round of talks, even as the EU hailed progress toward reaching a long-sought agreement between the arch-foes. The latest round of high-stakes negotiations followed months of EU-mediated s...
