ISTANBUL: On Wednesday, more than a week after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection, the Turkish lira hit a new low versus the US dollar. Prior to the presidential election, the central bank had supported the currency, but at roughly 0645 GMT, it had fallen 5% to 22.77 lira to theContinue Reading
State media stated that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday as the country’s diplomatic outreach extends beyond conventional Western allies. According to the Saudi state news agency SPA, Maduro was welcomed at the airport of the Saudi city of Jeddah on the Red Sea by PrinceContinue Reading
KAMPALA: According to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 54 Ugandan troops perished last week when terrorists besieged an African Union facility in Somalia. This was one of the bloodiest recent attacks by Al-Shabaab militants. Late on Saturday, Museveni sent a message on his official Twitter account stating, “We discovered the lifelessContinue Reading
Senior officials from more than a dozen nations, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, convened on Friday to strengthen relations and position themselves as a counterweight to the West. They discussed stronger connections with the Brics bloc of large rising economies. A increasing number of nations, particularly from the global South,Continue Reading
MOSCOW/KYIV: According to Moscow, Ukrainian artillery bombardment in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine claimed the lives of five persons. Drone strikes were also reported on two Russian oil facilities on Wednesday. In a week in which both nations accused one another of using airstrikes to sow terror in their capital cities asContinue Reading
MOGADISHU: Following a commitment by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in March to abolish a convoluted indirect system in existence since 1969, Somalia’s administration and federal member states said on Sunday that direct universal suffrage will be implemented with local elections scheduled for June 2024. After reaching an agreement with stateContinue Reading
ANKARA: Voting in Turkey’s presidential runoff began on Sunday. Tayyip Erdogan might win and continue Turkiye’s increasingly authoritarian course, aggressive foreign policy, and unconventional economic governance. Erdogan, 69, defied surveys and defeated Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the first round on May 14 with a comfortable lead of about five points. However,Continue Reading
The competition to lead NATO is getting more intense. But the race is primarily conducted in the dark, and the winner has not yet been identified. The Norwegian secretary-general of the transatlantic military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, is scheduled to leave his position at the end of September after serving nineContinue Reading
The Dutch minister of foreign affairs confirmed on Sunday that three Dutch nationals were killed when their small aircraft crashed in a hilly region of northern Croatia. According to Croatian aviation investigators, the incident occurred about noon local time on Saturday in a forest near the town of Ogulin, whenContinue Reading
The opening of a cross-border market marked a significant development in Pakistan’s relations with neighbouring Iran, although the United States chose not to remark on the bilateral relationships between the two nations. In an effort to increase bilateral commerce, Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif metContinue Reading
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