Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Sunday for a two-day state visit, Russian news agencies reported. Russian television broadcast images of the Russian president’s plane as …
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday in the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. Aripov, heading a …
Following threats by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has called for Turkey to be expelled from NATO. “Erdoğan has made Turkey a member …
The top US climate diplomat said on Tuesday that he would travel to China later this year to continue talks on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Envoys from both nations – …
Armenia will leave a Russia-led security bloc, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed for the first time, accusing members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation of having planned a war against …
Shady El Nahas reached the podium at the judo world championships for the first time by winning a silver medal in the under-100-kilogram category Thursday. El Nahas, from Toronto, faced Azerbaijan’s …
Many thousands of mourners packed the streets of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad on Thursday for the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed four days ago in …
“Oh Allah, we didn’t see anything but good from him,” Khamenei said in the standard prayer for the dead in Arabic, the language of Islam’s holy book, the Quran. Crowds …
The United States on Monday said it had been unable, due largely to logistical reasons, to accept an Iranian request for help following a helicopter crash over the weekend that …
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