Reuters. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who arrived in Oslo on Tuesday (October 20) to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff, met Norway’s King Haakon at the Royal Palace. Zelenskiy arrived in Oslo earlier in the day to try to repair ties with Washington that have deteriorated this month as President Donald Trump has courted Moscow….
The Kremlin commented on the possibility of peace talks without Ukraine’s participation, saying that a final agreement to end the war would be impossible without representatives of Kyiv, says Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, according to TASS. According to Peskov, Russia highly values the efforts of the United States to find ways to end the war…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to hold an emergency security meeting on Monday after protests over the rising cost of living broke out into violent clashes in Milan, BBC reports. More than 5,000 people gathered over the weekend. Police deployed tear gas and water cannons after protesters – many in masks – threw…
Russia and the US are discussing a range of new joint projects including nuclear-powered data centres in the wake of last week’s agreement on diesel, President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy said on Friday, Reuters reports. Kirill Dmitriev said that US sanctions posed serious obstacles and criticised as “misguided” the Graham Act signed by US President…
NATO’s military capabilities far exceed Russia’s, deterring Moscow from launching a large-scale conventional attack on Europe, Supreme Allied Commander Europe U.S. General Alexus Grynkewich told German magazine Der Spiegel. In the interview, published today, Grynkewich said the forces NATO could deploy in a major conflict would substantially outmatch Russia’s military. He pointed out that Moscow…
The loss of biodiversity, climate change, desertification, and land degradation are interconnected challenges that directly affect environmental security and countries’ development, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov said at the COP17 Leaders’ Summit in Yerevan. Berdimuhamedov emphasized the importance of long-term and effective cooperation among countries in biodiversity conservation. “We believe it is necessary to strengthen international…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Baku to attend the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). According to Report, citing TASS, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the event would address the further development of CICA. Participants will also exchange views on current international and regional issues….
On Tuesday evening, a foreign hacking group carried out a large-scale cyberattack on the state information infrastructure of Azerbaijan, the latter’s media report. More than 100 state domains were targeted, according to the Azerbaijani State Service for Special Communication and Information Security. The cyberattack resulted in disruptions in the websites of a number of Azerbaijani…
Iran welcomes all diplomatic efforts but remains fully prepared to defend itself, Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, said, stressing that any negotiations must be based on realistic proposals, IRNA reported. Speaking to Al Araby television network, Gharibabadi said Tehran was finalizing its response to the US side’s comments and concerns…
The chief of the thoracic surgery department at Rome’s Policlinico Umberto I hospital said on Monday (October 12) there was likely only a 1 or 2% chance Pope Leo’s recently discovered lung nodule was malignant, Reuters reports. Federico Venuta said that complications to the diagnosis and treatment of such cases are rare, at a rate…
According to Flightradar24, a United Airlines plane flying from Washington to Amsterdam issued a distress signal while over the Atlantic Ocean and changed course toward Canada. The aircraft departed Washington for Amsterdam on Sunday at 8:47 PM local time. However, while flying over the Atlantic, it later transmitted a “Squawk 7700” signal, indicating a general…
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas assured that Europe will not ease pressure on Moscow following the deal between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, she said this in a post on X. According to Kallas, more than 80 Ukrainian civilians have been killed by Russian strikes…
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov commented on the phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Ushakov noted that, during the conversation with Trump, Putin accused Kyiv of escalating the conflict and prolonging it. “Although the possibility of resuming trilateral negotiations involving the United States and Ukraine had been discussed during the presidents’ previous conversation,…
Several powerful explosions were reported in the southern passage of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly after oil tankers struck naval mines, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported, citing military sources. The explosions occurred minutes earlier in the southern passage of the strategic waterway, according to the broadcaster The sources said oil tankers using “unauthorized”…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Iran’s conditions for ending the war and a deal with Oman on the security of the Strait of Hormuz, saying Iran’s terms have been clearly and firmly explained, Mehr News Agency reported. Esmail Baghaei, speaking about the latest developments in Iran-US negotiations, said, “The considerations and conditions of the Islamic…
The European Commission wants to inject new momentum into its enlargement process, which has seen some candidate countries waiting for decades to join, DW reports. Albania, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine are currently the frontrunners to join the bloc, with EU officials expressing the hope that Montenegro could do so as early as 2028. “A larger…
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on October 6 on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason, with Der Spiegel reporting that investigators were examining possible links to Azerbaijan’s intelligence service. Hanning, who led Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, known as the BND, from 1998 to 2005, allegedly used classified information in his private…
Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has warned that any further miscalculation by Iran’s adversaries would lead to new fronts and larger surprises, IRNA reported. “Every miscalculation by the enemy against Iran has resulted in a heavy defeat for it,” Rezaei wrote on social media platform X on Monday. “The next mistake…
Relations between Armenia and Iran are strategic in nature; a meeting took place between Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan shared a video of the meeting on social media. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
The United States has made the abrupt decision to withdraw its bombers from the Royal Air Force (RAF) base Fairford in the western part of the United Kingdom, citing concerns about a potential attack, AL Jazeera reports. Media reports emerged on Sunday that an urgent redeployment was under way, with B-1 bombers leaving RAF Fairford…
During Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine on the morning of October 3, five aerial targets exploded within the country’s territory. Based on an analysis of the data, they were identified as three missiles and two drones, according to the Moldovan Ministry of Defense. “Amidst the Russian Federation’s massive attacks on Ukraine this morning, the National…
North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, a day after it rejected Seoul’s accusation of its mines wounding soldiers, The Guardian reports. The missile was launched from the Wonsan area at about 6.30am towards the East Sea – also known as the Sea of Japan –…
On October 2, Sargis Khandanyan, Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly, met with a delegation led by Kristina Kvien, President of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Khandanyan welcomed the delegation to Armenia, discussed the work of the newly elected parliament and outlined its priorities. Responding to questions from…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will use all weapons at his disposal if it considers its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad to have come under direct attack, BBC reports. The Russian president insisted that Moscow was “not threatening anyone” and merely responding to statements by Western leaders that it was preparing for war in…
Reuters. Russia will expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Budapest last month expelled 10 Russian diplomats. “As a reciprocal measure, a group of staff members from the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow and the Hungarian Consulates General in St Petersburg and Kazan must…
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog as it forges ahead with plans to disengage from international and multilateral organizations that it accuses of exceeding their mandates, being inefficient or not adapting to U.S. policies, ABC News reports. The Council of Europe said Tuesday that the U.S. formally…
