Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday he had secured Slovakia’s gas supply during a visit to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine halted the transit of gas from Russia at the start of 2025. “I needed to secure at a minimum gas for Slovakia’s domestic consumption – which…
A French journalist was briefly detained by Israeli troops on Wednesday in the buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights until Israel entered it last month, the army said. Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told a press briefing that the journalist “came too close to the soldiers, was questioned and…
At least six people were killed and several others injured late on Wednesday in a stampede in southern India after thousands of devotees queued outside one of the most visited Hindu temples to collect tokens for a free visit to the deity. Authorities had set up counters at a school to issue tokens from Thursday…
Reports that cases of a flu-like virus called HMPV are rising in China have sparked concern, but experts have dismissed fears that the situation is comparable to the beginnings of COVID-19 five years ago. Here is what you need to know about HMPV: Similar to flu HMPV stands for “human metapneumovirus” and generally causes a…
The Biden administration will not revoke the terror designation on Syria’s “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,” according to US officials familiar with the matter. The US has made clear since it first reached out to HTS and Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, that it would need to see words turned into action. Biden administration officials told Al Arabiya…
The maps show Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria as part of Israeli territory. The Arab League strongly condemned Wednesday the publication by official Israeli accounts of maps depicting parts of Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria as part of Israeli territory. Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit “warned that the international community’s failure to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday played down concerns over comments by US President-elect Donald Trump that he understood why Russia does not want Ukraine to join the NATO defense alliance. Zelenskyy, who has pushed for an invitation to join NATO before Trump’s return to the presidency, cautioned against making assumptions on the US position and said…
The US Education Department on Wednesday noted concerns about discrimination against people of Arab and Jewish ancestry at Johns Hopkins University and reached a settlement with the institution to resolve the complaints. The university has agreed to review its anti-harassment policies and to provide training to staff and students on addressing discrimination and harassment based…
Hundreds of veterans and current and former US officials want President-elect Donald Trump to preserve US special visa and resettlement programs for Afghans at risk of retribution for working for the United States during the 20-year war against the Taliban, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters. The letter, signed by the veterans, officials and others, will be sent to…
The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang “more capable of waging war against its neighbors.” Russia has forged closer diplomatic and military ties with North Korea since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. More than 12,000 North Korean troops are in…
US President-elect Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Jimmy Carter as he lay in state in Washington on Wednesday. Stony-faced and silent, Trump stood with his wife Melania for several minutes before former president Carter’s flag-draped coffin in the soaring Rotunda inside the US Capitol, then took a deep breath and Melania’s hand as they turned…
Sever fighters in the Kursk region have also defeated formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kazachya Loknya, Kubatkin, Lebedevka, Nikolskoye, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, the Russian Defense Ministry reported The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 49,830 servicemen during the hostilities in the Kursk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. “In total, during…
On the day of his death the founder of the National Front party was in a medical facility in Garches Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the National Front party, now known as the National Rally, has died at the age of 96, AFP reported, citing his family. “Jean-Marie Le Pen was called back to God at 12:00…
It may take place in January Another round of talks on delimitation and demarcation of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia may take place in January, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with local TV channels. “This month – at least on our initiative – another meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delimitation…
