MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Embassy in the US has accused Washington of trying “to put the brakes on” attempts to hold an international investigation into last year’s explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Commenting on the White House statement about “sufficiency of the national investigations, con...
ISTANBUL / BRUSSELS (AA) – The Kremlin has said that reactions from the West will not dislodge plans by Moscow to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. “Such a reaction (from the West), of course, cannot affect Russia’s plans,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a press briefing in Mosco...
MOSCOW (AA) – Attempts to retake Crimea will be seen by Russia as a “threat to the existence of the state”, deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has said. He added that such a move would give Russia the right to use any kind of weapon, including its nuclear arsenal. Responding to […]
MOSCOW (AA) – A senior Russian official has said that an attempt to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin under the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant would amount to “declaring a war.” Remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, came after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin ove...
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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia announced Tuesday that it summoned Canada’s charge d’affaires for comments made by the Canadian foreign minister. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Brian Ebel was summoned Monday and was told that the comments were “unacceptable and ran counter to the obligations of Canada as a state party to the Vienna Convention ...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has again threatened to use nuclear weapons if the US and South Korea continue to show “open hostility” toward Pyongyang. “We will continue to make the U.S. and South Korea, which show open hostility towards the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and frequent...
