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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri meets world leaders for crisis talks in Paris on Friday as Lebanon tries to chart a path through the regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. M © FRANCE 24 screen grab | Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron open the talks in Paris […]

Thirteen months ago Donald Trump was elected president. Many people predicted that American foreign policy would take a disastrous turn. Trump had suggested that he would scrap trade deals, ditch allies, put a figurative bomb under the rules-based global order and drop literal ones willy-nilly. NATO was “obsolete”, he said; NAFTA was “the worst trade […]

The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens started in controversy as he clashed with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos during introductory remarks at the presidential Palace in Athens. In his welcoming remarks, Pavlopoulos made a point of rejecting Erdogan’s claims that the decades old treaty, establishing the current borders between the two […]

North Korea wants to engage directly with the US to assure its security, Russia’s foreign minister has revealed. Sergey Lavrov said he has briefed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the developments and that Moscow is ready to “facilitate such talks.” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters “We know that, […]

Queen Elizabeth II formally commissioned into the British navy the UK’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at a ceremony on Thursday. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (C) gives an address as she  attends the Commissioning Ceremony for the Royal Navy   aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base in Portsmouth, southern England ( AFP […]

Jordan and the Palestinians on Wednesday requested an emergency Arab foreign ministers’ meeting to discuss the issue of Al-Quds, the Arab League said. The meeting is likely to be convened on Saturday, a diplomatic source said. President Erdogan (R) and Jordan’s King Abdullah II holding a joint press conference in Ankara on December 6, 2017. […]

North Korea views the endless military drills on its borders and repeated “bellicose remarks” by top US officials as means to “provoke” a nuclear war in the region, in which the US itself will be “burnt to death by the fire.” FILE PHOTO North Korean leader Kim Jong Un © KCNA / Reuters “The large-scale […]

US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital has been met with indignation by world leaders, drawing strong criticism in the Middle East and elsewhere. mThe US intends to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Donald Trump announced [Reuters] Many feel Washington’s move, announced on Wednesday after weeks of speculation, threatens to […]

Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would only benefit terrorist organizations, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday. AA Photo  Erdoğan reportedly called Pakistani counterpart Mamnoon Hussain to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital late Wednesday, according to the presidency. The sources said the leaders emphasized the decision would negatively affect […]

Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will seek another term in office in next year’s presidential election. “Yes, I will run as a candidate for the Russian presidency,” Putin said. He was meeting with workers at the country’s historic manufacturer, GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod), in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday. © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik “Our country […]