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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan received a high-level US official Friday for talks in Washington. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan received Phil Gordon, National Security Advisor to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Turkish Embassy in Washington,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry wrote on X. Fidan is visiting the US where the Türkiye-U.S. Strategic Mechanism meeting was held. He met Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss relations and international issues. Regional issues, including the situation in the Gaza Strip, were on the agenda. source: Anadolu Agency

Decisions by the administration of US President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party on immigration policy are designed to change the balance of power in the upcoming presidential election, US entrepreneur Elon Musk believes. “Most Americans do not know that the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship! Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to defeat an amendment that would have stopped counting illegals for congressional seat apportionment and electoral college (presidential) votes. Since illegals are mostly in Democrat states, both the House and the Presidential vote are shifted ~5% to…

Dozens of civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, were killed and others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted multiple areas across the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said that at least six civilians were in Israeli artillery shelling of several homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Three children were also killed inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City due to malnutrition and starvation, which raises Palestinian death toll from hunger in Gaza since the start of the aggression to 23. In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, nine Palestinian citizens, mostly children, were killed in artillery shelling that targeted…

Türkiye has dispatched some 40,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip through 19 aircraft and seven civilian aid vessels so far, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday. Another vessel belonging to the Turkish Red Crescent, carrying 3,000 tons of aid and dispatched a day earlier, is expected to reach Egypt’s Al-Arish port on Sunday, Erdogan told the general assembly meeting of the Istanbul-based Knowledge Dissemination Foundation. “We will increase the amount of aid throughout the (Muslim holy) month of Ramadan,” he added. At the very beginning of his speech, Erdogan said that the developments in Gaza since…

Canada’s Minister of International Development announced that his country will resume funding to UNRWA because of the dire humanitarian situation on the ground. Canada announced on Friday it will resume funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, more than a month after suspending it in line with about 15 other countries. Canada was among the countries that suspended funding to the agency following unverified Israeli claims about a dozen UNRWA employees allegedly taking part in the Palestinian Resistance’s operation on October 7. “I’m announcing that Canada’s funding for UNRWA will resume,” Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen told reporters.…

About 83% of the polled Russians give a positive assessment of the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). According to the survey, 83% of the respondents said that they evaluate Putin’s endeavors positively. The level of Russians’ trust in Putin is about 82%. In addition, 55% of those polled approved of the Russian government’s work, while 61% approved of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s work. The United Russia tops the rating, as 53% of the respondents would cast their ballots for this party. The FOMnibus weekly poll was conducted among…

US President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that it would be “tough” to secure a ceasefire between the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip and “Israel” by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “It’s looking tough,” Biden told reporters when asked if a deal to halt the five-month-old war could be achieved by Ramadan, which is due to start as early as Sunday depending on the sighting of the moon. The US President added that “I sure am” worried about the possibility of violence in occupied al-Quds as Ramadan approaches, adding to a similar warning earlier this week of a “very, very…

Scores of civilians sustained various injuries today in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential tower in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that occupation fighter jets targeted the Al-Masry residential tower, in the center of Rafah, wounding a number of citizens. Furthermore, Israeli warplanes also carried out intense airstrikes that targeted the eastern and western areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing injuries among civilians. The occupation aircraft also launched multiple raids on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, resulting in casualties and severe injuries to several Palestinian citizens. The…

Russia has requested a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine for March 22, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said. “It would have been nice if NATO’s representatives in the [UN] Security Council explained to us the alliance’s devious logic,” Polyansky said speaking at the UN Security Council’s session. “Its leaders initially told us that NATO should expand into Ukraine because Russia would never attack a NATO member state. However, we hear today that Russia cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine, because after that it will move further and attack NATO.” “Is there any…

The parties also discussed the prospects for cooperation, including human capital development