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Turkey’s Approval of NATO Expansion Could Take Months

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:58 PM

The Turkish government is unlikely to seek parliamentary approval for Ankara to back Sweden and Finland’s entrance to NATO before Turkey’s national election later this year, a top aide to ...

Is Turkey a Crucial or Corrosive NATO Ally?

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:42 PM

Emma Ashford: Hey, Matt! Happy new year to you. It’s our first column of the new year, and we’ve already got a lot to sink our teeth into: an attempted insurrection in Brazil, a change of military ...

We don’t have a problem with men, so why do the Taliban have a problem with us?

Sunday 15-01-2023 03:08 PM

The days are so hard for me that I can’t count the minutes or I would lose my mind. My name is Mahsheed Barzz, I am almost 20, and, like most Afghan girls and women, I am a prisoner in my ...

New COP28 president wants renewable energy generation to triple by 2030

Sunday 15-01-2023 02:28 PM

The new president of COP28 has called for a tripling of renewable energy generation by 2030 while highlighting the need for oil and gas from the “least carbon intensive producers”, following his ...

China Reports Nearly 60,000 Covid-Linked Deaths Since Lifting Restrictions

Sunday 15-01-2023 02:16 PM

China said on Saturday that it had recorded nearly 60,000 fatalities linked to the coronavirus in the month since the country lifted its strict “zero Covid” policy, accelerating an outbreak that ...

Cooperation on Climate Is Emerging in the Middle East

Sunday 15-01-2023 01:38 PM

In December 2020, the Israeli company Watergen signed a partnership agreement with the Abu Dhabi-based multinational firm Al Dahra to install their fresh water production devices in the United ...

Wagner v Mozart: US group strikes wrong note in Ukraine

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:58 PM

The Mozart Group, an independent American ex-military organisation founded to help Ukraine fight the Russians, is suffering from a distinct lack of harmony. A spat of angry tweets from the ...

Kyiv tries to rally West before ‘500,000 Russians’ go to front

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:49 PM

President Putin could mobilise up to half a million extra troops for his war against Ukraine as he seeks to wrestle back the initiative with a multipronged spring offensive. Western allies ...

How Western Goods Reach Russia: A Long Line of Trucks Through Georgia

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:35 PM

Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia. Each day, the line seems to get longer. The trucks wait for days with ...

Police: Militants kill 3 officers in restive NW Pakistan

Saturday 14-01-2023 05:08 PM

Militants shot and killed three police officers on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said, the latest violence in the restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. ...

Afghan rulers urged to reverse ban on women aid workers

Saturday 14-01-2023 03:46 PM

A strong majority of the U.N. Security Council urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Friday to immediately reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on girls and women including the latest ban on women ...

Iran hangs former defense ministry official over spy claim

Saturday 14-01-2023 03:25 PM

Iran said Saturday it had executed a dual Iranian-British national who once held a high-ranking position in the country’s defense ministry despite international warnings to halt his death ...

Crowd attacks Syrian rebel figure over reconciliation push

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:55 PM

Angry protesters in Syria’s rebel-held enclave rallied Friday against reconciliation attempts between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and scuffled with a local Syrian ...

Moscow Says It Has Seized Ukrainian Town of Soledar

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:40 PM

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Moscow’s forces had completed the capture of Soledar overnight, as Ukrainian officials said battles were continuing for control of the eastern town. In its ...

Biden Administration to Ask Congress to Approve F-16 Sale to Turkey

Saturday 14-01-2023 02:15 PM

The Biden administration is preparing to seek congressional approval for a $20 billion sale of new F-16 jet fighters to Turkey along with a separate sale of next-generation F-35 warplanes to ...