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urkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C) is speaking during the Third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 18, 2021. (AA Photo)   It is a “great injustice” that the African continent, with its population of 1.3 billion, is not represented in the U.N. Security Council, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday, stressing that representation of […]

  A government digital poster encouraging people to wear face masks to curb the spread of coronavirus, is displayed in a bus stop in London   –   Copyright  Credit: AP Europe is once again seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases — here is our summary of the measures being taken across the continent. In some parts, the increase has […]

Experts believe Russia’s sweeping demands will make further negations even more difficult. Military exercises of NATO soldiers Agile Spirit 2021.ZURAB KURTSIKIDZE / EPA / TASS Russia has made public a list of demands for security guarantees from NATO that seek to limit the Western military bloc’s role in Ukraine and the former Soviet space.. Weeks of Russian […]

South Korea’s Oscar submission is based on the true story of how enemies came together to flee Somalia’s 1991 civil war. Screen talks to director Ryoo Seung-wan about box-office hit Escape From Mogadishu. Anyone who has been paying attention to South Korean cinema in the past couple of decades will be familiar with Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), Park […]

Turkey aims to win alongside Africa and march together towards the future, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Friday in his commencement speech at the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit’s foreign ministers meeting in Istanbul. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (C) and visiting foreign ministers are seen in a family photo before the opening of the third Turkey-Africa […]

EU leaders on Thursday (16 December) agreed they would impose further economic sanctions on Russia if it invaded Ukraine. European Council president Charles Michel (r) welcomes German chancellor Olaf Scholz at his first EU summit (Photo: Council of the European Union) The EU-27 said they would take action in tandem with the US and the UK, […]

A hostile projectile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fell on civilian objects in Saudi Arabia’s Ahad al-Masarihah, a Governorate in Jazan, resulting in material damages. (SPA) A “hostile” projectile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fell on civilian objects in Saudi Arabia’s Ahad al-Masarihah, a Governorate in Jazan, resulting in […]

Olaf Scholz will make his debut as German Chancellor before the European Council.   –   Copyright  Kenzo Tribouillard/AP EU leaders are back in Brussels for a one-day European summit with a busy agenda that promises discussions around booster shots, energy prices, migration routes and Russia’s military build-up along the Ukraine border. The debate will see new faces in […]

Staff of the Afghan-Japan Hospital look at a chest x-ray in the COVID-19 emergency ward section next to a patient in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP Photo)  The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still […]

Typhoon ‘Odette’ has maintained its strength and is headed for the waters off to the east of Caraga region, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Thursday, Dec. 16. (Photo from PAGASA / MANILA BULLETIN) As of 1:00 a.m. PAGASA said that the center of typhoon Odette was last seen 410 […]