Europe & Russia

Israel is preparing for the expected increase in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, following President Vladimir Putin's decision of a partial military mobilisation of the Russian population...

Turkiye will send more than 3,000 riot police to Qatar to help secure World Cup stadiums and hotels in a security operation paid for by the competition hosts but...

Emphasising that the Istanbul grain deal is running "smoothly", the Turkish President, on Friday, said more than four million tons of grain have, so far, been exported from Ukrainian...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has denounced US warnings to impose sanctions on Turkish banks over using the Russian MIR transaction payment system, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking to reporters...

Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval exercises in the northern Indian Ocean "this autumn", Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Mehr quoted Iranian Chief of Staff, Major...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will convene a top tier economy-focused meeting on Friday at which Russian payment system, MIR, and possible Western sanctions will be discussed, two sources with...

Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, on Thursday welcomed the comment of his British counterpart, Liz Truss, over reviewing the possibility of moving the UK embassy from Tel Aviv to...

Turkiye has sold and delivered drones to the United Arab Emirates, eight months after Ankara and Abu Dhabi reconciled and restored relations, Reuters has reported. Anonymous Turkish sources have...

The exchange has been hailed in the US and Britain. US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, thanked Ukraine for including two American citizens in the deal

If the move goes ahead, it will see Britain following the US, who under the administration of former President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to the holy city

Russia has decided to move units of its 217th Paratroop Regiment from Syria to Ukraine, Newsweek has reported. Troops from the regiment were deployed to Belarus a month before...

Algeria yesterday launched a campaign to promote its candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the term 2024-2025. Elections are due to be held...

Security services for the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad have arrested a family which returned from Turkiye to the city of Homs, in yet another case of betrayal of...

The Iranian Oil Ministry said that a gas purchase and gas swap deal between Iran and Russia will be announced soon. Tehran is set to import up to 9,600,000...

A Syrian medical student wants to serve as a doctor in Turkiye to show his gratitude to the country for welcoming his family, who was seeking refuge after the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called on Greece to abandon its policies of escalation and provocation and to listen to Ankara's calls for cooperation. His remarks came during...

German utilities RWE (RWEG.DE) and Uniper (UN01.DE) are close to striking long-term deals to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar's North Field Expansion project to help replace Russian...

Steps that Turkish lenders, Isbank and Denizbank, took to suspend the use of Russian payment system, MIR, make a lot of sense, a senior US administration official said on Tuesday, and said the United States...

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Tuesday said he was "very irritated" about Turkiye's attempts to join a Central Asian security body dominated by Russia and China, Reuters reports. Turkish...

French President, Emmanuel Macron, held face-to-face talks with his Iranian counterpart, President Ebrahim Raisi, on Tuesday, with the French leader saying he hoped to be able to "discuss all...

The Head of Saudi state oil giant, Aramco, said on Tuesday Europe's plans to cap energy bills for consumers and tax energy companies were not long-term or helpful solutions for...

Two of Turkiye's largest banks have suspended their acceptance of Russia's MIR payments system after US warnings of punishment for sanctions evasion, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, Turkiye's...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Russia and Ukraine have reached an understanding regarding the exchange of 200 prisoners from both sides. Erdogan said during an interview with...

Activists are speaking out online about the announcement that British International Investment (BII) is financing local start-ups in Egypt to the tune of $100 million. The BII, which is...

France said yesterday that there would not be a better offer for Iran to revive a nuclear deal with world powers and it was up to Tehran to decide...

The United States is stalling in giving its approval for Israel to sell Arrow 3 missile defence system to Germany, the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Sunday. German Chancellor Ulf...

Turkiye has carried out several air raids on Sunday on sites of the Syrian Arab Army and Kurdish forces in northern Syria, killing three people, according to the Syrian...

Member of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkiye (DEIK) and President of the Turkiye-Qatar Business Council Basar Arıoglu said the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) railway link project would...

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral has begun at Westminster Abbey following the procession of her coffin led by royal family members, including King Charles III, reports Anadolu Agency. The British...

The Kremlin on Monday that "loud announcements" from US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the causes of the border conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia were unlikely to...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani said Sunday, that Tehran is ready to conduct a prisoner exchange deal with the United States, whether the nuclear agreement is revived or...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Lapid's office said on Saturday, Reuters reports. The meeting...