Russia requested “direct” dialogue and “greater mutual trust” on Tuesday between India and Pakistan to ease tensions after last month’s military standoff between the two nuclear neighbors, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The request was made by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with Syed Tariq Fatemi, the special assistant to Pakistan’s prime…
According to a TASS correspondent, the draft of a program for medium-term cooperation was approved at an expanded session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council The CIS Council of Border Guard Commanders has approved a draft of a cooperation program under which security on the external borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States is to…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday during his visit to Ankara, a Turkish official said on Sunday. Russia struck Ukraine with a new hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday in response to Kyiv’s use of US and British missiles…
Two opposition mayors in eastern Turkey have been removed from office after being convicted of “terrorism” for belonging to a banned Kurdish militant group, the interior minister said on Friday. The mayors of Tunceli and Ovacik were each sentenced to six years and three months in prison this week for membership of the outlawed Kurdistan…
Three suspects were arrested, Israeli police said Sunday morning, after two flares landed near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in the central town of Caesarea. “Three suspects were arrested overnight for their involvement in the incident” that took place Saturday evening, the police said in a statement, adding that the suspects would be interrogated jointly with the…
India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will not discuss bilateral relations when he visits Pakistan this month, the first such visit in nearly a decade, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. “I expect there would be a lot of media interest because of the very nature of the relationship,” Jaishankar said in response to a query…
Mark Smith says evidence of Gaza war crimes is clear, but that his complaints were brushed aside A Foreign Office official has resigned over the UK’s refusal to ban arms exports to Israel because of alleged breaches of international law. Mark Smith, a counter-terrorism official based at the British embassy in Dublin, said he had resigned after…
