Author: Steven Sahiounie

Hakan Fidan arrived in New York to attend UN Security Council meeting on Palestine Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived in New York on Monday to attend the UN Security Council meeting on Palestine. Fidan “will attend the UN Security Council meeting on the topic of Palestine scheduled to take place in New York on Jan. 23,” Turkish diplomatic sources said. He will also hold bilateral meetings during the visit. Israel has killed more than 25,100 people in the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people. The Israeli…

A large fire at a terminal on the Baltic Sea operated by Russian natural gas producer Novatek was caused by an “external impact,” the company has revealed. 

Lithuanian Economy Minister Ausrine Armonaite has issued a call for citizens to finance the country’s defense industry, telling them to “invest in tanks” rather than keep hold of their savings.

Stephane Sejourne expects France to face inflation and a food crisis if Ukraine is defeated

The number of bookings made by Russians for the popular Egyptian tourist destinations of Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh in January has seen a year-on-year decline of 14%, Russian business daily Kommersant reported earlier this week, citing calculations by travel website Ostrovok.ru.

Nearly 40% of jobs across the globe could be affected by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), with high-income economies more exposed than emerging markets and low-income countries, the IMF has warned in a new report.

The Gaza health ministry said Israeli strikes had killed 165 people and wounded 280 others in the past 24 hours, one of the biggest death tolls in a single day so far in 2024

A week-long rainstorm has wreaked havoc in northwest Syria, almost a year since the Turkiye-Syria earthquake devastated the region.

JERUSALEM: At the end of a kilometer-long, booby-trapped tunnel in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers discovered cramped cells where the military said Hamas kept about 20 hostages.

LONDON: The UK said on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to Palestinian sovereignty is “disappointing.”