Turkey extended condolences to Indonesia over Saturday's passenger plane crash near the capital Jakarta, Anadolu Agency reports. "We have learned with great sadness that a passenger airplane flying from...
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January 9, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...
Iran's elite revolutionary guard corps on Friday unveiled an underground anti-ship missile base along the shores of the Persian Gulf to the country's south amid heightened tensions in the...
Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on Friday agreed to appoint a formal representative in Turkey, according to a senior Turkish official, Anadolu Agency reports. "Our hope is that other social network providers...
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an Iraqi militia leader and former national security adviser, connecting him to human rights abuses during the 2019 anti-government demonstrations in...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump exposes the weaknesses and failure of Western democracy. Trump, Rouhani added, is...
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Khartoum has signed an agreement with the US Treasury Department to settle Sudan's debts at the World Bank. Finance Minister Heba...
Iran has prohibited the import of American and British Covid-19 vaccines
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January 8, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed How the mighty have fallen. In the space of a few months, Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has gone from the dizzy heights of...
A high-level US delegation arrived in Algeria on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the Western Sahara file and the situation in Libya and the Sahel. The delegation includes Air...
An Iraqi court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump on charges of assassinating the deputy head of Iraq's Hashd Al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilisation Forces...
An Iranian ship arrived at the Venezuelan port of La Guaira on Thursday, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, in what appeared to be a continuation of the commercial alliance...
On 6 January, the US Congress building was stormed by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, after the latter called on his supporters to rally to defend the Republicans....
World leaders reacted with shock and dismay to the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of US President Donald Trump, protesting congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory, Anadolu Agency reports....
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As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel's political discourse on Palestine, the Israeli government of right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may feel that it, alone, is...
US Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack has pledged to hang an Israeli flag outside her Capitol Hill office, which is right next door to that of Democrat Rashida Tlaib, who...
The US has complained that digital taxes in Turkey discriminate against American companies, paving the way for tariffs, Al Jazeera has reported. The complaint was made by the office...
The Egyptian foreign minister made calls to his Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) counterparts yesterday to discuss the upcoming quartet that aims to "advance peace in the region", the...
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January 7, 2021 |
Tasnim Nazeer Yesterday's shocking scenes in Washington DC left the world reeling at the unprecedented sight of Trump supporters storming the Capitol Building. Rolling media coverage called the events many things,...
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January 7, 2021 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer At the time when the Gulf reconciliation was announced, a number of Israeli positions emerged. Security, military, and political parties close to the decision-making circles in Tel Aviv diverged...
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January 7, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi In what reads like a tentative attempt to bring the US back on track when it comes to international diplomacy, the US Foreign Affairs Committee representative, Gregory Meeks, has...
A Colombian man of Lebanese descent will be extradited to the US to face money laundering charges, a Cape Verde court ruled on Monday. Special envoy to Venezuela Alex...
A former employee of the Twitter social media site, who is accused of spying for Saudi Arabia against its critics, is fighting for the charges against him to be...
Iraqi Defence Minister Juma Inad yesterday warned that his country would be dragged into "civil war" if missile attacks on diplomatic missions did not stop. "Targeting the Green Zone...
The Chinese embassy in Baghdad has responded to US accusations that China is committing human rights abuses against religious minorities in the Xinjiang region, accusing the US of "interference...
The Somali opposition has warned US oil firms not to sign deals with the Somali government, according to a statement posted on the Twitter account of one of the...
At least four people died on or near the US Capitol as President Donald Trump's supporters rioted and besieged the federal legislature, police said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Police had...
US officials are investigating a menacing message that was sent to air traffic controllers in New York. The ominous message threatened to attack Capitol Hill on Wednesday, in retaliation...
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Sudan on Wednesday quietly signed on to the Abraham Accords, US-brokered agreements which have ushered in public rapprochements between Israel and several Arab states, Reuters reports. While Sudan and...
The new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington announced yesterday that the US will consider the resumption of aid to Palestine through the UN Relief and...
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Moroccans are grappling reluctantly with their country's shocking level of normalisation with Israel. They have organised sit-ins, and a petition to thwart the deal, while weighing the steep toll...