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Beirut, Dec 30 (AFP/APP):Syria’s Kurds could soon face a tripartite ultimatum to cede territory, analysts predict, as Syrian, Turkish and Russian defence ministers met this week in Moscow — the first such talks since Syria’s war began in 2011. Russia has long backed the regime […]

Moscow, Dec 30 (AFP/APP): Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he was keen to ramp up military cooperation and hailed the two countries’ efforts to counter Western influence. Battered by unprecedented Western sanctions over Moscow’s assault against Ukraine, Putin wants […]

ANKARA 29 Dec (Online): The ebb in ties between Türkiye and China comes from Beijing’s “unease” over Ankara’s support for the Uighurs of Xinjiang, northwestern China, Türkiye’s top diplomat has said. Turkish-Chinese ties have suffered over Beijing being disturbed by Ankara’s “attitude toward Turkic Uighurs. […]

KABUL 29 Dec (Online): G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on the Taliban to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in Afghanistan’s aid sector. The ban is the latest blow against women’s rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban reclaimed power last year. The Taliban […]

MOSCOW, Russia – December 28 (ONLINE) No “peace plan” on Ukraine is possible if it does not account for four new regions joining Russia, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday. “To begin with, so far, there is no Ukrainian ‘peace plan’ of any […]

TAL AVIV, Israel – December 28 (ONLINE) Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has finalised coalition deals with allied parties, their spokespeople said, in final steps toward his political comeback at the head of one of the most right-wing governments in Israel’s history. Netanyahu, whose bloc of […]

Washington, Dec 28 (AFP/APP):The European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia Wednesday to take “immediate” steps to deescalate tensions amid mounting unrest in their border region. “The European Union and the United States of America are concerned about the continued tense situation […]

Ottawa, Dec 28 (AFP/APP):A group of countries led by Canada on Wednesday called for an arbitrator to settle claims against Iran over its shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020. The move is a first step in possibly bringing a case against […]

KYIV, Ukraine – December 27 (ONLINE) A dramatic fall in the birth rate is expected in Ukraine next year and it is quite possible that the country’s population may decrease to 35 million or less by 2030, Ella Libanova, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of […]

BEIJING, China – December 27 (ONLINE) People in China have reacted with joy and rushed to plan trips overseas after Beijing said it would scrap mandatory Covid quarantine for overseas arrivals that will end almost three years of self-imposed isolation. In a snap move late […]