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NATO’s Secretary-General states that he has agreed to hold a high-level meeting in Brussels with the Turkish president.  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the alliance will hold discussions with Sweden about its accession before its summit next month, with the approval of Turkey, which has been holding up the membership bid. Stoltenberg stated that he had come to an agreement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “convene a high-level meeting in Brussels before the summit.” The Turkish presidential office stated Sunday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addressed recent developments in Russia involving…

With a poll sample of 1,530 people, the CNN/SSRS found that 33%, if they had to make a choice between former US President Donald Trump and incumbent US President Joe Biden would prefer to vote for Trump. A poll conducted by CNN/SSRS revealed that 36% of US citizens, who were sampled, do not consider either incumbent US President Joe Biden or former US President Donald Trump as favorable presidential candidates in the 2024 US presidential elections. The poll, published on June 20, indicated that 33% still preferred Trump over Biden, while 32% supported Biden over Trump if they had to make such a decision. According to CNN/SSRS, the poll…

The Sudanese army loses a Khartoum police headquarters to the RSF in a battle that killed at least 14 civilians. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Monday a unilateral ceasefire during the Eid Al-Adha Islamic holiday, effective on Tuesday and Wednesday. RSF chief General Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo made the announcement in an audio recording broadcast on a major Saudi media outlet. On the same day, the Sudanese army faced a multi-front challenge after losing a Khartoum police headquarters to the RSF in a battle that killed at least 14 civilians. The RSF, which since mid-April has been fighting Sudan’s regular…

Far-right parties have gained a total of 34 seats in the Hellenic Parliament, marking a new era in Greek politics. Elections results in Greece have revealed the emergence of the far-right in the country as three parties gained 12.8%, or 34 out of the 300 total seats in the Hellenic Parliament. The Spartans, a far-right led by Vasilis Stigas, gained 12 seats from a total of 240,000 votes following an endorsement from Ilias Kisidiaris, the former spokesperson of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which was banned by authorities from participating in elections and labeled a criminal organization. Stigas thanked Kisidiaris,…

As Igor Morgulov clarified, in this context the “consolidation of Russia-China foreign policy coordination” remains highly relevant Russia and China are capable of thwarting the dangerous plans of the West and NATO, which are trying to disrupt the unity of the Eurasian space, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said on Tuesday. “The Washington-driven North Atlantic Alliance is trying to lend a global scope to its activities. It seeks to penetrate into the Asia-Pacific region and is trying to divide the Eurasian space into a network of exclusive clubs and military blocs,” he said at the opening ceremony of the…

Taipei warns Beijing that any military assets that enter its ‘territorial airspace’ will be shot at Taiwan has repeated its stance that it would destroy any Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft or vessels if they were to enter a 12 nautical mile zone around the island, Taipei’s military leadership said on Tuesday. “If the PLA side continues to ignore our warnings along the way and force their way into our territorial air space and seas, we will actively strike back to safeguard national security,” Major General Lin Wen-huang, a planning administrator at Taipei’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), said on…

Commander of the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan has traveled to Russia to hold talks and sign an agreement on security and police cooperation between Tehran and Moscow. Heading a delegation, the Iranian Police commander arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for talks on the promotion of security and law enforcement cooperation between the two states. General Radan is going to hold talks with Russian Police officials and sign a memorandum of cooperation between the police forces of the two countries in the fight against terrorism, human trafficking and drugs, and also in…

Syrian Airlines announced the operation of four exceptional evacuation flights from Sudan to Damascus. The Syrian establishment said in a statement to SANA reporter on Tuesday, that from June 30 until July 21, four exceptional evacuation flights will be operated from Port Sudan International Airport to Damascus International Airport, at the rate of a weekly flight every Friday. Source: SANA

The chief of Russia’s Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, will reportedly move to Belarus following a deal brokered by Minsk to end the mutiny. A plane linked to the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus on Tuesday as per media reports. The private jet “landed at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk at 07:40,” as per the Belarusian Hajun project, which tracks the country’s airspace. The Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft departed from a location in southwest Russia that borders Ukraine, according to information from the flight tracking website flightradar24 that was given by the Hajun project. In further detail, a second Russian…

The State Department states that Ambassador Lynne Tracy made it clear to Russia that the US had nothing to do with the situation over the weekend. The US State Department stated on Monday that the US ambassador in Russia contacted the Russian authorities during the weekend to clarify that the US was not involved in the unrest in any way. According to the State Department, Ambassador Lynne Tracy in Moscow, as well as US officials in Washington, who called the Russian embassy, transmitted the message to Russian authorities on Saturday. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday that the…