Views: 4 China and Belarus have agreed to strengthen cooperation in a range of sectors including trade, security, energy and finance, a joint communique showed. Belarus, which has been hit by Western sanctions over its support for Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, said Thursday it will sign a free trade deal with China for services and […]
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Views: 8 Foreign minister urges world intervention to ensure president’s planned visit to enclave proceeds. Palestine on Friday called for international pressure on Israel to help ensure President Mahmoud Abbas’s planned visit to the Gaza Strip. Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, Palestinian Authority’s minister of state for foreign affairs, told Anadolu that Palestine “is moving forward with
Views: 5 CHICAGO – As she accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party on Aug 22, US Vice-President Kamala Harris promised to keep “the people” she once represented in court at the centre of her policies. Ms Harris, who began her career as a prosecutor from California, seemed to be reprising that role in
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Views: 4 White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in China next week to discuss issues ranging from Taiwan to US-China military talks, a senior US administration official said on Friday. During the Aug. 27-29 talks in Beijing, the two will also discuss China’s support for Russia’s
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Views: 9 Inside the cavernous Lockheed Martin aircraft manufacturing plant at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, employees Thursday celebrated nearly 70 years of flight for the C-130 tactical airlifter — built in Marietta as the longest-running military aircraft production line in history. Since the first flight on Aug. 23, 1954, of the large turboprop plane now known as the
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Views: 4 Two female journalists were killed in a Turkish airstrike that hit their car in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, local officials and media said Friday. The journalists, Hero Baha’uddin and Golestan Tara, worked for a local Kurdish media company, according to local media outlet Roj News and an official in Sulaimaniyah province who
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Views: 5 The Israeli assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran is an unforgivable violation of Iran’s security and sovereignty, the country’s foreign minister says. Abbas Araghchi made the remarks in a phone conversation with his French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné on Friday. Emphasizing the historical record of relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and France, Araghchi expressed
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Views: 16 PORTICELLO (Italy), Aug 23 — Italian emergency services resumed their search on Friday for the body of Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, the only person still unaccounted for since the British tech magnate’s family yacht sank off Sicily this week, killing him and six others. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht carrying 22 passengers
Views: 10 Attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in Pakistan killing at least 11 police officers on Thursday, authorities said. Another nine police officers were wounded in the ambush attack, the Punjab police spokesperson said. The attack, for which no group immediately claimed responsibility, took place in Pakistan’s southern district of Rahim Yar Khan
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Views: 9 The US Embassy in Kyiv has warned its citizens of an increased risk of Russian airstrikes in the country in the coming days. “The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv assesses that during the next several days and through the weekend there is an increased risk of both nighttime and daytime Russian drone and missile
