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[PHOTO\CGTN] The Chinese government will donate 5,000 sets of protective clothing and 100,000 masks to Japan in batches, the first two of which arrived in Tokyo on February 27 and 28 in order to help Japan to fight against the novel coronavirus, the Chinese Embassy in Japan said in a statement on Saturday. Many Chinese […]

©Sputnik / Nina Zotina Three employees of the Turkish branch of Sputnik News, whose apartments were attacked by Turkish nationalists on Saturday night, have been missing since going to file complaints about the incident to Turkish police. “We have not been able to contact our employees in Ankara for nine hours now,” Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief […]

Refugees arrived in Lesbos aboard dinghies on Friday morning –  CopyrightAP–Michael Varaklas Hundreds of refugees have already flocked to Turkey’s border with Greece — or arrived in dinghies on the island of Lesbos — after Ankara said it would no longer prevent their passage to Europe.The comments have prompted criticism from human rights experts who say Turkey […]

KABUL: After a week-long reduction in violence that resulted from painstaking negotiations, the US and Taliban signed a historic agreement Saturday in Qatar, which would herald a drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan and long-awaited negotiation between the rebel group and Kabul government. The peace agreement includes a 14-month deadline for withdrawal of all U.S. […]

  (Yonhap) South Korea saw the number of the novel coronavirus cases surpass 3,100 with 17 deaths on Saturday afternoon, with the coming days until early March considered a watershed for the country’s efforts to contain community spread of the deadly virus. As of Saturday afternoon, the number of infections climbed by 813 – the […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses ruling AK Party deputies in Istanbul, Feb. 29, 2020. (AA Photo)  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that Ankara has asked Moscow to stay out of its fight against Assad regime forces in Idlib as Turkish forces continued to target regime positions in northern Syria. “I asked Putin for Russia […]

FILE PHOTO. © AFP / Fadel Senna Damascus has the right to fight back when attacked by terrorists and Moscow is in no position to stop Syrians from doing what the UN Security Council endorsed, Russia’s foreign minister has said after the latest Idlib flare-up. Ankara lost 33 soldiers in the northwestern Syrian province after they were targeted […]

Syrian families fleeing with their belongings pass through the town of Dana in the northern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province, on February 5, 2020, on their way northwards toward the Turkish border amid an ongoing regime offensive. © Aaref Watad, AFP Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official said, […]

President Xi Jinping set out eight requirements at a key meeting held on Sunday, including taking more targeted tax-cut measures and stabilizing employment, to resume the nation’s economic activities in an orderly way. [Photo/Xinhua] President Xi Jinping sent out a strong message to the world when he emphasized that the strength of the Chines e […]

AFP File photo  Russian planes did not carry out strikes on the area of Idlib where Turkish units sustained aerial bombardments, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry, after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in a brutal attack by the Moscow-backed Assad regime on Thursday night. Moscow has done everything to impose a full cease-fire by the […]