ANKARA (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has called for a dialogue to resolve the longstanding dispute over the South China Sea, saying that the problem is not “insurmountable.” There is no easy solution to the overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, nor is the problem insurmountable as long as there is [...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): Finland became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of “countermeasures” from the Kremlin. Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe’s security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbour Sweden — to drop decades...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Finland will become a full-fledged member of NATO on Tuesday and its flag will be raised at the alliance’s headquarters, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. Speaking to reporters ahead of the two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Stoltenberg said the bloc was looking forward to a “historic week” a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine’s foreign minister has said Russia’s upcoming one-month presidency of the UN Security Council is a “bad joke.” “Russian UN Security Council presidency on April 1 is a bad joke. Russia has usurped its seat; it’s waging a colonial war; its leader is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for kidnapping […]...
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...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): The chairman of Saudi National Bank, which was a major shareholder of troubled lender Credit Suisse before its buyout this month, has resigned, a statement said on Monday. The Saudi bank’s board of directors “accepted the resignation” of Ammar AlKhudairy “due to personal reasons”, said ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia should introduce a law to prohibit activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the country and make cooperation with the court a punishable offence, a top Russian lawmaker has said. “It is necessary to develop amendments banning any ICC activity on our territory, as well as penalties for any assistance [&hellip...
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 […]
GENEVA (AA) – Islamic giving plays an increasing role in helping the forcibly displaced people, a UN refugee agency official said on Friday. At the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Khaled Khalifa, a senior advisor to the High Commissioner and UNHCR representative to Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, launched the fifth Isla...
