STOCKHOLM (AA) – The tripartite memorandum between Finland, Sweden and Türkiye for NATO membership of the Nordic nations will be fulfilled, the Swedish foreign minister reiterated on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Brussels ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Tobias Billstrom condemned Sunday’s terror attack on Istanbul...
BEIJING (AA) – China has no intention of challenging the US or changing the existing international order, the Chinese president told his US counterpart during their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, said Chinese authorities. “China does not seek to change the existing international order or interfere i...
BALI, Indonesia (AA) – European Council President Charles Michel stressed Tuesday that the “fight against terrorism is a common fight.” Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, Michel responded to a question by Anadolu Agency on the deadly weekend terrorist attack on Istanbul’s Is...
BALI, Indonesia (AA) – The US president on Monday dismissed concerns over the possibility of a new Cold War. There “need not be a new Cold War,” Joe Biden said after a three-hour meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. But Biden also told reporters: […]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – G20 countries must be at the forefront of action on emissions reduction, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has said. According to Inger Andersen, the longer these countries delay climate mitigation, the more costly it will be in both humanitarian and economic terms. Andersen...
BALI, Indonesia (AA) – President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday met in Indonesia’s Bali on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit. “As leaders of two nations, we share responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the US can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything ever nea...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping will travel to Indonesia next week to attend the G-20 summit, his first foreign trip since being proclaimed secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) for the historic third term last month. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement that Xi will attend the [&...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AA) – Global carbon emissions (CO2) this year are forecast to remain at a record level of around 40.6 billion tons, up 1% from last year, and if current emission levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that global warming of 1.5 C (2.7 F) will be exceeded in nine years, the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend next week’s G-20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, the Kremlin has announced. Instead of him, the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will represent Moscow, according to details shared by spokesman Dmitry Peskov. No reasons were given for Putin’s non-attendance of the con...
GENEVA (AA) – Inequitable distribution continues to deprive the world’s most vulnerable people of vaccines, with poorer countries consistently struggling to access vaccines, according to a new World Health Organization report. Limited vaccine supply and unequal distribution drive global disparities, the WHO said in its Global Vaccine Market Re...
