MOSCOW (AA) – Moscow and Beijing held two-day consultations on strategic security in China, the Security Council of Russia said in a statement on Monday. The Russian delegation, headed by Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of the council, traveled to the city of Nanping to meet the Chinese delegation led by Yang Jiechi, a high-ranking Chinese ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan is “in favor of peace and normalization of relations,” but at the same time ready to respond to any threats, a spokeswoman for Baku’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday. “Azerbaijan is not in favor of tensions,” Leyla Abdullayeva told Anadolu Agency. “We are in favor of peace and normalization of relations....
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has called for keeping borders with Armenia unchanged amid the latest flare-up between Baku and Yerevan. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the call during a phone contact with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov on Wednesday. Iran shares a 44-km border with Armenia that runs from the tripoint with Azerba...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about expanding a recently-brokered deal that opened Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to grain exports. Putin has threatened to restrict what is known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative after it was signed in July to allevi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia is feeding its people a “steady diet of lies” to conceal the true costs it is incurring as a result of its more than half-year war against Ukraine, the State Department has said. Spokesman Ned Price said Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior officials “have done everything they can” ...
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s deputy defense minister has claimed that more than 300 settlements in the Kharkiv region were regained from Russian forces over the past week. Hanna Maliar told reporters that an area of some 3,800 square kilometers (1,467 square miles) has been recaptured. “More than 300 settlements and nearly 1...
ANKARA (AA) – Fifty Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in recent days in provocations by Armenia, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “A total of 50 military personnel of the Armed Forces, including 42 military personnel from the Azerbaijan Army and 8 military personnel from the State Border Organization, were mart...
PARIS (AA) – Millions of Russians will no longer be protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe said on Monday, as Moscow will cease to be a party to the convention on Sept. 16. According to Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the secretary-general of the Strasbourg-based council, with its departure from the [&hellip...
BAKU (AA) – Azerbaijan said early Tuesday that intense clashes broke out on its border with Armenia between troops of the two countries. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said the Armenian army carried out extensive provocations in the evening hours on the border in the direction of Dashkesan, Kalbajar and Lachin. The ministry said sabotage gro...
MOSCOW (AA) – Germany crossed “the red line” when it started supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev has said. In an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia, Nechayev recalled that Germany bears moral and historical responsibility for the crimes of Nazi Germany, committed in Russia...
