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Moscow, May 27 (AFP/APP):Russian President Vladimir Putin told Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer Friday that attempts to blame Russia for difficulties in shipping grain worldwide were unfounded and pointed to Western sanctions instead, the Kremlin said. “Vladimir Putin stressed that attempts to make Russia responsible for […]

Tunis, May 26 (AFP/APP): Tunisia will hold a constitutional referendum for a “new republic” on July 25, President Kais Saied has announced, in defiance of critics who warn he wants to establish an autocracy. The vote will come exactly a year after Saied sacked the […]

MOSCOW – May 24 (ONLINE) Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has drawn attention to the United States’ heavy spending on the creation of new pathogens. In an interview to the weekly Argumenty i Fakty he commented on speculations that the Western pharmaceutical companies were […]

Islamabad, May 24, 2022 (Online): The Islamic Republic of Iran has dispatched an Ilyushin II-76 aircraft of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to Baluchistan Province in Pakistan aimed at assisting the neighboring state in distinguishing wildfires in forests and pastures. Vast fires in jungles, […]

Davos, Switzerland, May 24 (AFP/APP): Swedish and Finnish delegations will meet Turkish officials Wednesday hoping to clear up differences with Ankara which opposes their applications to join NATO, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said. “When we see the problems coming, of course, we take this […]

Geneva, May 23 (AFP/APP): Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said on Monday. “The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations […]

Tehran, May 22 (AFP/APP):Gunmen shot dead a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday in the east of the capital Tehran, state news agency IRNA reported. “Sayyad Khodai… was assassinated during a gun attack carried out by two motorcylists in Tehran’s Mohahedin-e Eslam Street,” IRNA […]

JERUSALEM – May 22 (ONLINE) Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian militant in clashes in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said. The Israeli military said Palestinian suspects fired on its soldiers and threw fire-bombs […]

KYIV – May 22 (ONLINE) Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest salvo in response to Western sanctions and its deepening international isolation. Polish […]

Sydney, May 22 (AFP/APP): Incoming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowed to end Australia’s reputation as a climate laggard and reset relations with the rest of the world Sunday, as he raced to form a government in time for a key Tokyo summit. Fresh from an […]