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As a country in the Black Sea vicinity, Turkey invites all parties to exercise restraint and use dialogue to bring peace to the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday as he arrived in Kyiv to discuss tensions between Ukraine and Russia with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy after pitching Turkey as a mediator. President […]

Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to be overtaken by the military West African and United Nations envoys meet Burkina Faso coup leaders in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso January 31, 2022. © Burkina Faso presidency via […]

Boris Johnson has insisted he plans to fight the next election (Picture: PA/Reuters/Parliament) Five more Conservative MPs are preparing to submit letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson, according to reports. A member of the government could even join the plotters after the publication of Sue Gray’s ‘update’ on Downing Street parties failed to quell discontent […]

France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a meeting, in Lievin, northern France, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022.   –   Copyright  Michel Spingler/Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders […]

Amid the threat of conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Moscow won’t budge on its “well-founded” security demands. One day earlier, the embattled Johnson publicly condemned Putin during a visit to Ukraine. FILE PHOTO: Vladimir Putin makes a telephone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Krasnodar […]

In a recent interview with US media, Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang said that if the Taiwan island authority, emboldened by the US, keeps going down the road for independence, it would most likely involve China and the US “in a military conflict.” He also compared the Taiwan question to “the biggest tinderbox” […]

Israel is taking part in a huge US-led naval exercise in the Middle East, for the first time publicly joining Saudi Arabia and Oman, two counties it has no diplomatic relations with despite its normalization of ties with some Gulf states. A Man-Portable Tactical Autonomous Systems (MANTAS) T-12 unmanned surface vessel (USV) sails alongside Royal […]

Europeans bought as many hybrid cars as they did diesel in Europe in 2021 for the first time as the European Commission presses forward with its intention to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035. A Nissan Leaf charges at a recharge station outside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Friday, […]

The ‘Eastern’ tactical and operation group of the Ukrainian army conduct a drill while military activity continues in the Donbas region, Ukraine. © Armed Forces of Ukraine / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The ‘Eastern’ tactical and operation group of the Ukrainian army conduct a drill while military activity continues in the Donbas region, Ukraine. […]

Guinea-Bissau’s president says he has survived an attempted coup after assailants armed with machine guns and AK-47s attacked the government palace for hours while the president and prime minister were inside. It was not immediately clear who was behind the assault, though the president said it ‘also has to do with our fight against narco-trafficking’ […]