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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.
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…
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…
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’…
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,…
China’s President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held on Tuesday a video conference call, a day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the US president for a second time. During the call, a portion of which was shared by the Kremlin, Putin said the basis of cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is a “broad community of national interests and a coincidence of views on what relations between major powers should be.” Expressing that Russia and China are building their ties on the basis of matters such as friendship and mutual trust and benefit, Putin said these relations…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it regrets new US President Donald Trump’s decision of intending to withdraw from the organization. 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 UN briefing in Geneva. Noting that the US was a founding member of WHO in 1948, Jasarevic said that for over seven decades,…
China’s President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a video conference, the Chinese state media reported. Notably, the call between Xi and Putin comes a day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the US president. No more details of the call were released till the filing of this report.