Author: Agencies And A News
After being offline for just 12 hours in the U.S., TikTok’s nationwide ban was postponed by President Donald Trump, giving the app 75 days to find a buyer. This move allows the new administration time to make an appropriate decision. According to the recently approved ban by the Supreme Court, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, must transfer ownership to a non-China-based company to address security concerns over data collection and propaganda spread through the app’s algorithm. Trump suggested that selling even 50% of the company might suffice to prevent the ban. Potential buyers include YouTuber MrBeast and tech billionaire Elon Musk.…
Ahmed Al-Shara, the new leader of Syria, made his first exclusive statements to Turkish television on A Haber. In an interview with A News Broadcast Coordinator Orhan Sali and A Haber Correspondent Rüya Akkuş, he addressed Türkiye-Syria relations. Here are the keynotes underlined by Ahmed Al-Shara during the exclusive interview: A New Era Begins in Syria “It has been only a short time since we entered Damascus. As you know, the Assad regime has massacred many people and wronged the Syrian people. Syria faced the threat of division due to Western interventions. We want to coexist with the Kurdish people…
Ukraine praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday for threatening to impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia if it refuses to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine and said the comment sent a “strong signal”. Trump, who has repeatedly said he wants to halt the fighting in Ukraine without saying how, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to “stop this ridiculous war” and threatened to impose punitive measures if no deal is reached. “We do really welcome such strong messages from President Trump and we believe that he will be the winner. And we believe…
Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday welcomed his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in an official ceremony held at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, National Defense Minister Yasar Guler, the head of the national intelligence organization MIT Ibrahim Kalin, and other officials were present at the ceremony. Following the one-on-one and delegation-level meetings, an agreement-signing ceremony will be held. The two presidents are also expected to hold a joint news conference.
The Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye on Thursday trimmed the policy rate by 250 basis points, matching market forecasts. The benchmark one-week repo rate was lowered to 45% from 47.5%. The bank said the tight monetary policy would remain in place until price stability is achieved through a sustained reduction in inflation. “Accordingly, the policy rate will be determined in a way to ensure the tightness required by the projected disinflation path taking into account realized and expected inflation, and the underlying trend,” it said. The bank stressed that it would make cautious decisions on a meeting-by-meeting basis,…
After being offline for just 12 hours in the U.S., TikTok’s nationwide ban was postponed by President Donald Trump, giving the app 75 days to find a buyer. This move allows the new administration time to make an appropriate decision. According to the recently approved ban by the Supreme Court, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, must transfer ownership to a non-China-based company to address security concerns over data collection and propaganda spread through the app’s algorithm. Trump suggested that selling even 50% of the company might suffice to prevent the ban. Potential buyers include YouTuber MrBeast and tech billionaire Elon Musk.…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded that Russia “settle now” and end the war in Ukraine, warning of high taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russian exports if a resolution is not soon achieved. “I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin – and this despite the Radical Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60,000,000 lives in the process,” Trump said on Truth Social. “All of that being said, I’m going to do…
The UN chief on Wednesday issued a stark warning about the growing challenges facing humanity, highlighting the climate crisis, ungoverned artificial intelligence, and geopolitical divisions in an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that the world is grappling with a “Pandora’s box of troubles,” pointing to escalating conflicts, economic disparities, rising inequalities and assaults on human rights, and outdated governance systems ill-suited to tackle contemporary challenges. “We are living in an increasingly rudderless world,” he said, lamenting the lack of effective collaboration and foresight among global leaders. ‘ISRAEL FUNDAMENTALLY INTERESTED IN WEST BANK’…
Speaking during a conference meeting following the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged the Arab, and Islamic world to support Syria’s recovery before others and Western states lift sanctions imposed on the war-torn country. On the Gaza ceasefire, Erdoğan pointed out that images of prisoner exchange show who values human dignity and who disregards them. ‘Our Gazan brothers, sisters have paid heavy price, but they have neither bowed to thuggery, nor have they surrendered to policy of massacre,’ Erdoğan said in a statement. “Türkiye will accelerate its efforts to pave the way for lasting peace in…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday decried new US President Donald Trump’s Monday decision to withdraw the US from the UN agency. The WHO “plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks and often in dangerous places where others cannot go,” spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told a Tuesday briefing in Geneva. Noting that the US was a founding member of WHO in 1948, Jasarevic said that for over seven decades,…