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It’s possible to reduce differences in views with dialogue, Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan tells Ukrainian and Russian delegations as the second round of Istanbul talks end with a new prisoner exchange deal, yet no progress on a cease-fire The Russian delegation, led by presidential adviser, Vladimir Medinsky, Chief of the Turkish General Staff, Metin Gürak, […]

Willful restriction on food aid in Gaza may constitute war crime, says UN rights office The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that the willful impediment of access to food and relief for civilians in Gaza may constitute a war crime, describing attacks on civilians trying to access food aid as unconscionable. Mourners […]

Türkiye’s exports rose by 2.7% year-over-year to reach an all-time monthly record of $24.8 billion in May, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat announced on Monday. A view of the Mersin International Port in Mersin, southern Türkiye, May 29, 2025. (AA Photo) “Our exports are increasing despite weak demand and tough competition,” Bolat said at a press […]

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has carried out a mass drone attack on four Russian airfields on 1 June, hitting over 40 warplanes on their home bases, including in the Arctic and in Siberia. An operation by Ukraine’s Security Service on Sunday hit 41 miltary aircraft, among them various types of strategic bombers that were lined […]

As President Donald Trump overhauls U.S. policy in Africa — slashing foreign aid programs and paring back assistance for allied forces in the region — al-Shabab militants are on the march in Somalia. One of al-Qaeda’s best-funded and most lethal global affiliates, al-Shabab has retaken important towns from Somali forces over the past three months. Its fighters previously launched […]

A jury found former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins guilty of accepting more than $75,000 (£55,000) in bribes last December, in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers without them being trained. s. AFP/Getty Images Jenkins, a long-time supporter of Trump, was sentenced in March to 10 years in prison. He was set […]

The swap was agreed on in Istanbul earlier this month during the first face-to-face talks between the two sides since the war began. Russia and Ukraine on Sunday completed the exchange of 1,000 prisoners each, with the handover of the last 303 prisoners. The three-day swap, which started on Friday, was the largest since the […]

China’s domestically built 10,000-ton-class hospital ship, the Auspicious Ark, conducted a multi-element, full-process medical rescue drill in a certain area of the Yellow Sea recently, the official Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) media reported on Monday. China’s third domestically designed and built 10,000-ton-class oceangoing hospital ship Auspicious Ark. Photo: Screenshot from China Bugle, an official media […]

Before Trump’s social media statement, Putin had released a statement saying a “ceasefire is possible if the right agreements are reached” but didn’t explain what those agreements were. US President Donald Trump has said ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine will start “immediately” following a phone call Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin. In a post on […]

An Islamist extremist working at one of London’s most famous hospitals has been suspended after being accused of issuing a fatwa-style death threat for blasphemy. NHS employee Omar Abdallah Mansuur, 39 – an influential imam – faces claims that he decreed a fellow Muslim should get the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Mohammed The Mail […]