Turkey refuses to ratify Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership bid

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday trained guns on Sweden and Finland once again regarding…

Grief, protest and power: Why Iranian women are cutting their hair | CNN

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Putin acknowledges China’s “concerns” over war with Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday for his “balanced” approach to…

Queen Elizabeth witnessed the crumbling of British power in the Middle East | CNN

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Turkiye President Erdogan calls Western policies towards Russia ‘provocative’

Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced his displeasure towards what he called the West’s ‘provocative’…

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant partly goes offline amid fighting

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in…

UN chief inspects grain ship off the coast of Turkey

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday (August 20) inspected a grain ship anchored off Turkish…

“Huge betrayal” if Biden meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, says slain reporter Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée

Istanbul — Hatice Cengiz, who was the fiancée of journalist Jamal Khashoggi when he was brutally…

Russia shot down three Ukrainian fighter jets, says Russian defence ministry

Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday (July 13) that Russia had shot down three Ukrainian fighter…

Watch| Afghan refugee shepherds desperate to return home, even to resurgent Taliban’s hardline rule

The homesick Afghan shepherd prepares his baaing flock for a good shear, in the Turkish mountains…