With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees an opportunity to resume his close working relationship with the president-elect, analysts say. However, as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, there are risks as well as opportunities for the incoming Trump presidency. Source link
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “blatant hypocrisy” for allowing prisoners to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti quoted Zakharova on January 12 as saying that the use of prisoners as firefighters is no different from China’s use of forced labor, which the US has … Read more
Nicosia, Cyprus – Cyprus on Thursday hailed a US memorandum allowing military sales, including arms, to the island, a milestone reaffirming the island’s recognition as a pillar of stability in the eastern Mediterranean region, rife with conflict. It has happened. US President Joe Biden boosted security ties with Cyprus on Wednesday by issuing a memorandum … Read more
Pro-Kremlin Russian media lost millions of readers and viewers in 2024, with the audience of some state propaganda outlets falling by up to a third. The main propaganda TV channel, Channel One, has lost a quarter of its viewers following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Experts who spoke to VOA Russian said this … Read more
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart this week to sign a comprehensive partnership agreement between Moscow and Tehran, the Kremlin said on Monday. The Kremlin said a “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement between the countries would be signed during Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Moscow on Friday. It said the … Read more
Nearly 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed and 2,700 others wounded in Russia’s war in Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in a closed briefing on Monday. The National Intelligence Service said he had taken part in the interrogation of several North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces. The briefing came … Read more
Niamey, Niger – An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger city of Agadez, residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. It is the first time a European citizen has been kidnapped in the conflict-hit West African country since the military junta took power in 2023. The ministry said the … Read more
Bucharest – Thousands of people protested in Romania’s capital on Sunday against a top court decision to annul the presidential election after an outside candidate unexpectedly came to the forefront last month. Many protesters in Bucharest blew horns and waved Romania’s blue, yellow and red flags, while others waved placards with slogans such as “Democracy … Read more
Istanbul- A delegation from one of Turkey’s largest pro-Kurdish political parties met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison on Saturday, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict, the party said. . Three senior people from the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) along with former party … Read more
Paris— France has started 2025 with a further reduction in its military presence in its former African colonies, sparking fresh tensions with controversial comments by French President Emmanuel Macron this week. Chad, Senegal and now Ivory Coast have followed Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in asking France to withdraw its troops from their soil. The … Read more