The soaring natural gas prices have driven up the global demand for oil, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. In its monthly report, the IEA said that high temperature and soaring natural gas prices have made power generation switching necessary in some countries, which are now using oil to generate electricity. …
The United Nations’ human rights chief said Friday that Israeli settlements in the West Bank have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state, The Times of Israel reports. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that the growth of Israeli settlements amounted to…
Georgia will begin production of unmanned reconnaissance drones by the end of 2022, Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze said on September 19. The drones will be produced jointly with a Polish company. “All formal processes with the Polish company have been completed,” the Minister said. He did not name the company, but specified…
Luxembourg froze Russian assets in the amount of 2.5 billion euros as part of the sanctions.
A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered its airspace on Friday, authorities said, the first time the NATO member state has done so following dozens of such incursions, Reuters reports. Airspace breaches on NATO’s eastern flank have fuelled concerns that the alliance’s borders are at risk as war rages…
During the Bishkek summit, the Russian President referred to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and once again stated: “The territory of Karabakh finally became part of Azerbaijan after Prime Minister Pashinyan recognized it as the territory of Azerbaijan during a meeting held in Prague last year, thereby radically changing the status of Karabakh.” “The mandate of…
The federal government has removed Syria from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, almost a year after the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, CBS News reports. Syria had been put on the list in 2012 while Assad was still in power. The country was in the midst of a conflict that…
French firefighters were battling on Wednesday to control the country’s biggest wildfire in almost 80 years, with the blaze in the southern Aude region having already swept through an area bigger than Paris, Reuters reports. One person died in the village of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, about 30 kilometers from the city of Perpignan, the prefecture said….
Iran effectively shuttered the crucial waterway in the early days of the war and in mid-April the US responded by imposing its own blockade on Iranian ports, Euronews reports. Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that Tehran was collecting fees for “navigational services” on ships transiting the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but is not…
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and US President Joe Biden will sign a joint declaration on Thursday to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. According to The Times of Israel, the two leaders will express support for the Abraham Accords and Israel’s integration in the region. The declaration will also include shared concerns on global…
Reuters. Several explosions were seen and loud blasts heard over northern Gaza in the early morning on Friday (July 18). The blasts came after Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. presented Israel and Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas with an updated Gaza ceasefire proposal, Axios reported on Thursday (July 17), citing sources. Israeli and…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has launched a large-scale military drill in the northwestern region of Aras along the borders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Iran International reports. The IRGC on Monday kicked off its three-day military exercise — codenamed “IRGC Ground Force’s Might” — in areas striding the northern sectors of East Azarbaijan and Ardabil provinces….
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian refuted reports that the Metsamor nuclear power plant in neighboring Armenia may have polluted the Aras (Araks) border river with radioactive materials, Tasnim news agency reported. The foreign minister attended a meeting of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in Tehran on Sunday. Asked by…
From April 20, the visa regime for citizens of Tajikistan will begin to operate in Turkey, the Tajik ‘Khovar’ state agency reports, referring to the country’s Foreign Ministry. Following Ankara’s decision, Dushanbe advised its citizens not to use Turkey as a transit travel country. This was announced by the Press Secretary of the Ministry of…
It was the first meeting with Erdoğan, I got a generally positive impression. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview to the Public Television Company, referring to the Armenian-Turkish relations. According to the Prime Minister, he had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey earlier and he evaluates the telephone conversation…
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Saturday had a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and as part of his working visit to the Georgian capital Tbilisi. They expressed satisfaction with the high level of relations between the two peoples. Mirzoyan noted that further development of relations with Georgia is of strategic importance for…
The agenda of the upcoming November 13-14 EU Foreign Affairs Council meetings includes the process of normalization between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the European Commission’s lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy Peter Stano told Armenpress. The discussion on Armenia-Azerbaijan was originally planned to take place during the previous session in Luxembourg but was…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day, abc NEWS reports. A statement Saturday said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” Hezbollah vowed to “continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of…
Reuters. The U.S. military said late on Tuesday (April 14) that American forces have completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea through a blockade. In a post on X, U.S. Central Command said “an estimated 90% of Iran’s economy is fueled by international trade by sea.” Talks to…
Ukraine is set to receive close to €4.2 billion in funds after the Council greenlighted the first regular payment of grants and loans under the EU’s Ukraine Facility, to support Ukraine’s macro-financial stability and the functioning of its public administration, EU Council press office reports. In a decision adopted today, the Council concluded that…
Moscow has not yet seen Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s proposals for specifying details of the Russian peacekeeping mission’s work in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Friday. “I find it difficult to answer this question because we have not seen the specific proposals that the Armenian Prime Minister wants to…
Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahain and EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, in a telephone conversation late Tuesday, discussed and exchanged views on some topics of mutual interest, including the Niger crisis, the Ukraine war, the relations between Iran and the European Union, as well as the removal of sanctions, Iran Press reports. Amir-Abdollahian…
US Vice President J.D. Vance, speaking at the first session of the Board of Peace, expressed gratitude to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. “We are grateful to all of you for your partnership, particularly the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia, whom I met last week….
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that Ukraine was essentially sabotaging the process of exchanging prisoners of war, Reuters reports. Zakharova said that Russia’s defence ministry had offered Kyiv to hand over 935 Ukrainian prisoners of war but that Ukraine had taken only 279. “Russia has never refused to have…
US President Donald Trump has once again accused the BRICS bloc and its members of undermining the strength of the US dollar. During a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said the United States would impose new tariffs on countries choosing to work alongside BRICS, Financial Express reports….
The process for approving supplies of Patriot air defense systems as part of a deal between the US and NATO is still ongoing and the German Defense Ministry denies reports that deliveries have already been launched, the ministry’s spokesman Mitko Mueller told reporters at a briefing, TASS reports. “Specific terms, including which systems will…
Patrick Prior, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Chief of the Europe Eurasia Regional Center, arrived in Baku for consultations, the US Embassy to Azerbaijan informed. “A warm welcome to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Chief of the Europe Eurasia Regional Center, Mr. Patrick Prior, who is visiting Baku for consultations with the Azerbaijani government on ways to…
If Georgia receives the EU candidate status with the same unjust obligations as the unjust accusations were reflected in the recent European Parliament resolution, then the country should give a fair refusal in return, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party MP Dimitri Khundadze said on Friday. The EP resolution on Thursday on Georgia’s media freedom…
During the European People’s Party Congress, Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on Armenia Rasa Juknevičienė, speaking on behalf of the Lithuanian delegation, called for a vote in favor of the resolution entitled ‘Current political situation in Armenia’, which welcomes the domestic political developments taking place in Armenia, including the reforms implemented in the areas…
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar calls European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement that the Commission will propose sanctioning Israeli ministers and a partial suspension of the EU’s association agreement with Israel “regrettable,” saying her remarks strengthen Hamas and ignore Israel’s efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, The Times of Israel reports….
