Europe & Russia

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has appointed Ibrahim Kalin head of the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), the Communications Directorate said on Monday, local Turkish news media reports. According to...

The UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced yesterday that the government had purchased two new barges to house up to 1,000 migrants seeking refuge in the UK. Speaking at...

European Union countries are expected, this week, to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of...

Some European lawmakers have condemned the European Commission's silence on Greece's illegal pushback of migrants and refugees, accusing it of complicity and lack of action to rectify the situation....

The former French ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, has said that "Morocco is blackmailing France on the Sahara issue, after Paris was one of its biggest supporters...

At 4am on 26 February 2023 at least 94 people died when the boat Summer Love crashed onto the rocks near the Italian village of Steccato di Cutro. The...

Iran has revealed its first hypersonic missile which can outpace missile defence systems and that will apparently give it a military edge against the West and the surrounding region,...

MEMO videographer Mohammed Asad captures exclusive footage of Gaza's first fish farms

The flag carriers of Turkiye and Italy have signed a code-share agreement to expand destinations in the networks of both Turkish Airlines and ITA Airways, the airlines said on...

The EU plans to channel more funds to Western African countries to prevent irregular migration heading to the bloc, an official said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Ylva Johansson,...

Unmanned aerial vehicles have recently become the Turkish defence industry's largest export.

Officials from the Lebanese Foreign Ministry have been sent to France to investigate allegations of rape and violence against the country's envoy to Paris. This comes after France asked...

Saudi Arabia has welcomed Venezuela's President to the Kingdom on an official visit, hosting yet another adversary of the West as it carves a more independent foreign policy path....

Newly appointed Trade Minister, Omer Bolat said Turkiye's first aim in the period ahead would be to increase production and goods exchange, in addition to improving the chronic current...

Turkish annual inflation fell to 39.59 per cent in May due to the government offsetting price rises in other goods by providing natural gas free of charge, Reuters reports. According...

A 13th century mosque that fell into disrepair after being used over the years as a soap factory, a slaughterhouse and a fort re-opened in Cairo on Monday after...

On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder. Locals...

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the...

Syria will import half as much wheat in 2023 as the previous year due to an expected boost in the domestic harvest, Minister of Agriculture, Mohammad Hassaan Qatna, said...

Palestinians pin hope on Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to heal the inter-Palestinian rift and achieve reconciliation, head of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), Rawhi Fattouh, said. The Palestinian...

In a move fraught with significance, both the Egyptian and Turkish sides rushed to formally announce the upgrading of diplomatic relations and the mutual exchange of ambassadors, following the...

The Speaker of Algeria's Council of the Nation, the upper house of Parliament, Salah Goudjil, said Turkiye has given the world a lesson in democracy, Anadolu Agency reports. Goudjil...

Saudi Arabia will cut oil production by one million barrels a day in a bid to prop up oil prices, the Financial Times has reported. The decision was announced...

Tense relations continue between Morocco and Spain despite relatively warm links in recent months, not least due to Madrid's recognition of the autonomy initiative proposed by Morocco to end...

France international and Real Madrid striker, Karim Benzema, has reportedly reached an agreement with Saudi Arabian football club Al-Ittihad on a two-year contract, according to local media. The 2022...

It has been a week of mixed blessings for Western leaders as Turkiye's Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again confounded his critics at the ballot box. Sporting more faces than...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday that Sweden has met all of Turkiye's demands to join the military alliance, urging Ankara not to veto Stockholm's bid in a...

Members of the OPEC+ alliance yesterday agreed to implement a voluntary cut in oil production until the end of 2024 instead of the previous date scheduled for the end...

The Syrian opposition's Negotiation Commission yesterday called for the resumption of direct talks with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, under UN auspices. "The international, regional and Syrian...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan took the oath of office for a new presidential term yesterday after his re-election last week, extending his rule into a third decade.

Anyone who supports Palestine and is vocal about the injustices suffered by the Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation should be ready to be targeted and vilified by...

Famous singer Dua Lipa criticized British government officials' comments on migrants, slamming them as "shortsighted and small-minded," Anadolu reports. Lipa, a Grammy-winning performer who was born to Kosovar-Albanian parents,...