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US President Donald Trump on Saturday proposed relocating Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan — an unusual proposal that was opposed by the former administration of Joe Biden. Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure from Los Angeles for Miami, the president said he raised the matter during a telephone call with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and he might talk with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday. “I said to him (Jordan’s king) that I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess,…
The US State Department paused nearly all foreign aid programs for 90 days, with exceptions granted for military assistance to Israel and Egypt, according to a leaked diplomatic cable cited by multiple reports Friday. The directive, reportedly signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, requires all diplomatic and consular posts to issue “stop-work orders” for most existing foreign assistance programs, according to Politico, which obtained the internal memo. The freeze is part of President Donald Trump’s executive order earlier this week, which called for a 90-day review of foreign aid spending to assess its alignment with US foreign policy priorities.…
Hamas handed four female Israeli soldier hostages over to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday, live TV showed. The four were led onto a podium in Gaza City amid a large crowd of Palestinians and surrounded by dozens of armed Hamas men. They waved and smiled before being led off and entering ICRC vehicles that will transport them to Israeli forces.
If Donald Trump had been reelected as US president in 2020, the Ukraine crisis that erupted in 2022 might not have occurred, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. In an interview with the Russian Rossiya 1 TV channel on Friday, Putin said that Russia remains open to peace talks on the Ukraine war. He said that Moscow has never rejected contact with the US administration but the previous one opted not to pursue such engagement. About his relationship with Trump, Putin said it was “strictly business-like, yet pragmatic and trust-based,” adding “I cannot but agree with him that if he had…
Israel won’t allow Palestinians to cross into northern Gaza before the issue of a female hostage it had been expecting to be released on Saturday is resolved, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Escalating geopolitical rivalries are heightening the risks of violent confrontations between nuclear-armed states, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoygu warned on Friday. In an interview with Russian state news agency TASS, Shoygu said Western nations are engaging in “ideological and value-based aggression” against Russia and Belarus. He emphasized that these efforts extend beyond economic sanctions, with the West also attempting to destabilize the internal political systems of both nations. “Amid escalating global conflicts and intensifying geopolitical competition, the risk of violent confrontations between major powers, including those possessing nuclear capabilities, is increasing,” Shoygu warned. He criticized the West for continuous…
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,…
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Thursday that US forces are expected to maintain their presence in Iraq under the new administration of President Donald Trump as tension continues to spike in the Middle East region. “I think my belief is that they will be there,” he said during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The top diplomat said that the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has significantly evolved since Trump’s first term in office. “The whole situation in the Middle East is different than the first, let’s say, Trump administration. Now, we are…
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…
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.