WASHINGTON (AA) – US’ Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday welcomed a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli President Isaac Herzog that took place in Ankara on March 9. Speaking at a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East, Thomas-Greenfield said the US believe...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan / ANKARA (AA) – China is investing over $400 billion in nearly 600 projects across the Muslim world under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Chinese foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign minister in Islamabad, Wang Yi said Beijing has cl...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia’s use of a hypersonic missile to strike a target deep in war-torn Ukraine may be indicative of inventory shortages, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Moscow’s use of the weapon to strike a storage facility last weekend “could very well be tied to inventory probl...
JERUSALEM – Visits by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed to Egypt for talks are a “message of protest” to the United States, according to Israeli media. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hosted both Bennett and bin Zayed in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The Turkish foreign minister has called for collective efforts to protect the rights of Muslims and ease the sufferings they face across the globe, including in Palestine, Kashmir and Cyprus. Addressing the Islamabad meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mevlut Cavusoglu touc...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hosted talks Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the UAE’s de facto ruler, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, his office said. The meeting, which took place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, included discussions on “energy, market s...
GENEVA (AA) – At least 925 people have been killed and nearly 1,500 wounded since Russia launched a war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, while the number of people fleeing Ukraine has reached almost 3.5 million, the UN said on Monday. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it has […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said Monday it decided to withdraw from peace talks with Japan over the Kuril Islands and all related projects amid Tokyo’s sanctions against Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Japan’s “clearly unfriendly position,” which seeks to harm Russia’s interest, makes it impossible to sign a fundam...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign ministers on Monday approved the bloc’s new defense and security strategy – developed over two years, largely before the Ukraine war, but taking on added relevance in the context of the nearly month-long conflict. The document, officially called Strategic Compass, sets out “an ambitious plan of action for stren...
NEW YORK (AA) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that he is ready for negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’m ready for negotiations with him. I was ready for the last two years. And I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war,” Zelenskyy told CNN in a televised interview. H...
