Author: Anadolu Agency

England on Sunday secured a comfortable 5-0 win over a 10-man Ireland in the UEFA Nations League. Neither national football team were able to break the deadlock in the first half at Wembley Stadium. In the 51st minute, Jude Bellingham was brought down in the penalty box by Liam Scales. Scales got his second yellow card and was sent off, leaving his team to play the remainder of the game with 10 men. Harry Kane scored the opener for England with a penalty kick in the 53rd minute. After three minutes, Anthony Gordon doubled the lead from close range, assisted…

Turkish Trade Minister Ömer Bolat on Monday will embark on a two-day visit to Iraq, seeking to boost economic cooperation. Bolat’s visit, accompanied by delegations from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and Turkish Contractors Association (TMB), will include stops in the capital Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, said Trade Ministry sources. Accompanied by business representatives, Bolat will work to deepen trade and investment ties with Iraq, one of Türkiye’s key trading partners. The visit aims to promote Turkish contractors’ involvement in Iraqi infrastructure projects, particularly the Development Road Project, a trade route project linking the two countries with…

Türkiye has denied Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s request to use its airspace for his flight to attend the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital. Officials confirmed that Israeli authorities submitted the request for Herzog’s plane to traverse Turkish airspace en route to the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference. However, Turkish authorities declined his request. On Saturday, Herzog canceled his participation in the conference, citing “security concerns,” according to a statement from his office. Relations between Türkiye and Israel have been deteriorating since the start of Israel’s devastating offensive against Gaza following a cross-border attack by Hamas in October…

A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Japan’s Koshima region on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake struck at an intermediate depth of 70.6 kilometers (43.8 miles) beneath the epicenter at 9:16 p.m. local time (1216GMT), with no tsunami warning issued, according to the agency. According to preliminary seismic data, the quake was most likely felt by many people near the epicenter. However, there was no reported damage.

Moldova on Sunday condemned “false and manipulative” remarks on the country made by Moscow’s envoy, urging him instead to ensure the withdrawal of Russian troops from part of Moldova. Earlier, Oleg Ozerov, Russia’s ambassador to Moldova-a country of some 2.5 million bordering Ukraine-claimed on public radio station Radio Rossii that its economic development and prosperity depend largely on gas supplies from Moscow, accusing “all kinds of external forces” of militarizing the country. “The statement that the economic situation of the Republic of Moldova depends on trade ties with the Russian Federation is a serious distortion of reality,” the Moldovan Foreign…

Moldova on Sunday condemned “false and manipulative” remarks on the country made by Moscow’s envoy, urging him instead to ensure the withdrawal of Russian troops from part of Moldova. Earlier, Oleg Ozerov, Russia’s ambassador to Moldova-a country of some 2.5 million bordering Ukraine-claimed on public radio station Radio Rossii that its economic development and prosperity depend largely on gas supplies from Moscow, accusing “all kinds of external forces” of militarizing the country. “The statement that the economic situation of the Republic of Moldova depends on trade ties with the Russian Federation is a serious distortion of reality,” the Moldovan Foreign…

An explosion overnight at a Russian factory injured at least one person, with preliminary assessments pointing to a drone crash, local authorities said on Sunday. Aleksandr Brechalov, head of the Republic of Udmurtia (Udmurt), said on Telegram they got a report in the morning of an overnight explosion at a factory in the region’s administrative capital Izhevsk, about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from Russia’s border with Ukraine, and some 968 km (601 mi) east of Moscow. Saying that according to initial assessments a drone crashed in the factory, Brechalov stated there was no serious damage besides broken windows. All emergency…

Serdar Tunagur, the ringleader of the terrorist organization PKK in Portugal, was apprehended during a joint operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization and Istanbul Provincial Security Directorate. According to security sources, Tunagur, who previously engaged in subversive activities in support of the PKK, actively took part in many actions on behalf of the terrorist organization in Portugal. Tunagur was arrested in Istanbul during the joint operation and later sent to prison on judicial authorities’ orders. In a related development, the Turkish Ministry of Defense said on Sunday afternoon that the country’s armed forces have “neutralized” eight PKK/YPG terrorists in…

Russian forces have captured the villages of Makarivka and Leninskoye in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the Kremlin claimed on Saturday. The Defense Ministry said the villages fell under Russia’s control as a result of an operation carried out by its Tsentr (Center) group of forces. Other Russian units improved their positions, destroying and taking Western-made weapons and military equipment as trophies, the ministry reported. There are several settlements in the region called Leninskoye, but the ministry did not specify which one was captured. Makarivka is located in the Volnovakha district, about 100 km (65 miles) south of the city of…

A senior economic adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said Britain should align itself with the United States on trade rather than pursue closer ties with the European Union. Speaking to BBC radio, Stephen Moore said the EU had a “socialist model” and suggested the U.S. would be less interested in a free trade deal with Britain if the government put its economic relations with the EU ahead of those with the U.S. “The UK is kind of caught in the middle of these two forms of economic model and I believe that Britain would be better off moving…