Saudi crown prince to visit Turkiye in first since Khashoggi murder
BSS/AFP :Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkiye next week, a government official said on Friday, as Ankara and Riyadh heal a bitter...
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US urges Russia ‘humane treatment’ of Americans captured in Ukraine
BSS :The United States on Thursday urged Russia to treat any American volunteers captured while fighting alongside Ukrainian troops as prisoners of war guaranteed humane...
Saudi embassy in Washington now on ‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’
BSS :The street in front of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Washington was renamed Wednesday for Jamal Khashoggi as activists vowed never to forget the slain...
Hunger crisis could swell already record global displacement: UN
BSS/AFP :Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis...
UN warns against adoption of Ukrainian children in Russia
BSS :Ukrainian children should not be adopted in Russia, where several thousand young people are believed to have been moved since Moscow’s February invasion, a...
Europe ‘epicentre’ of monkeypox outbreak: WHO
BSS/AFP :The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that Europe remained the epicentre of the global monkeypox outbreak, which posed a “real risk” with...
UK to send first asylum seekers to Rwanda
BSS :The British government was to send a first plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against...
Togo declares state of emergency in north after attack
BSS :Togo’s government on Monday declared a “state of security emergency” in its northern border region to give the armed forces more flexibility to deal...
Ukraine forces fighting for ‘every metre’
BSS :Ukraine said that Monday that its forces had been pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky described...
Ex-Russian PM says Ukraine war could last two years
BSS :He was Vladimir Putin’s first prime minister but Mikhail Kasyanov never in his worst nightmares imagined that his former boss would unleash a full-scale...
Turkiye opens state-of-the-art port in Istanbul with an underground terminal
BSS/AFP :A state-of-the-art port in Istanbul with an underground terminal, a celebrity chef’s restaurant and a shopping centre, welcomes yet another 5,000-passenger cruise ship, bringing...
38 hostages kidnapped by Haiti gang freed
BSS/AFP :Nearly 40 people taken hostage in a mass kidnapping in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince were freed on Saturday, one day after they were abducted by...