WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that nearly all of the grain leaving Ukraine’s ports under a recently brokered pact is bound for the EU. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said the Russian leader’s allegation against the Black Sea Grain Initiative “simply is not...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has called on the international community to play its “constructive role” for peace in Afghanistan, after at least six people, including two Russian Embassy workers, were killed in an explosion in Kabul. “China strongly condemns the terrorist attacks on diplomatic organizations and personnel,” Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Mi...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Wednesday blacklisted senior EU military and law enforcement officials, as well as weapon producers supplying arms to Ukraine. In a Foreign Ministry statement, Moscow said arms deliveries to Ukraine from the EU showed that Brussels did not want to “invest” in peace in Ukraine, but rather in prolonging ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union will cancel its visa facilitation agreement with Russia but there will not be a “general visa ban,” Hungary’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. “There is no unanimity among the members of the (EU) Council on imposing a blanket ban against Russia,” Peter Szijjarto said after an informal meeting of [&he...
Bali, Indonesia (AFP): The Group of 20 chair Indonesia has warned environment officials from the world’s leading economies that they must act together to combat a warming planet or risk plunging it into “uncharted territory”. The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, died on Tuesday. He was 92. “This evening, after a serious and prolonged illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev passed away,” the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital, where he was being treated, said in a statement. Gorbachev was born in 1931 in a p...
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijan has called for international pressure on Armenia to explain the fate of thousands of its citizens who disappeared during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. “Today is #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared. Almost 3 decades, fate of 3.890 Azerbaijanis, who went missing as a result of aggression by Armenia, is unknown,” Azerbaij...
ANKARA (AA) – Officials of Türkiye, Finland and Sweden will meet in Finland on Friday to discuss the NATO membership bids of the latter two countries. On June 28, the trio signed a memorandum at the NATO summit in Madrid to address Türkiye’s security concerns about Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership. For the implementation of […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia is preparing to hold “sham” referendums in occupied Ukrainian territories within a matter of weeks, the US has said. Moscow has instructed officials to begin preparations in areas that have fallen under its control during its war on Ukraine, including Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia, parts of Donetsk and...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has said it has received a response from the US to an EU-drafted plan to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal and is reviewing it. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Tehran is making a “detailed review” of the US response, which was received through EU coordinator Josep Borrell. Iran will […]
