Earlier this year, Azerbaijan lashed out at Russia over the Dec. 25, 2024 crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that the government said was hit by accidental Russian ground fire before crashing in Kazakhstan. Now, Moscow is coming under fresh scrutiny over the crash, which killed 38 of the 67 people on board, as a […]
Read MoreThe Quad grouping of the United States, India, Japan and Australia called on Tuesday for the perpetrators of an Islamist militant attack that killed 26 in India-administered Kashmir to be brought to justice without delay. The April 22 attack sparked heavy fighting between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in the latest escalation of a decades-old rivalry […]
Read MoreBy Mansur Mirovalev In 2001, a man was stabbed to death near a lakeside restaurant in Yekaterinburg, an urban centre in Russia’s Ural Mountains region. With his dying breath, he whispered the names of his alleged killers to the police, local media claimed. The man and his presumed murderers were ethnic Azeris, Turkic-speaking Muslims whose […]
Read MorePakistan has nominated US President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his “diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” during the recent India-Pakistan conflict, which ended in a ceasefire after several days of cross-border shelling. The escalation followed a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 people. The announcement was made […]
Read MoreBy Maria Siow The spotlight is back on the so-called Squad minilateral grouping of nations aimed at countering China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth hailed the bloc as the most “strategically positioned to manifest deterrence”. Observers, however, are mixed on such a stance, pointing to Washington’s transactional approach and seemingly erratic […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot on Monday discussed India’s new approach to combating terrorism and bilateral cooperation in areas such as trade, investment and security. Belgium is the first stop in Jaishankar’s week-long visit to Europe, a month after India carried out military strikes on terror infrastructure […]
Read MoreWashington DC [US], May 30 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Deputy NSA Ambassador Pavan Kapoor on Thursday (local time) held an interaction with leading US think tank experts on India-US cooperation in defence, technology, and trade, as well as key regional and global developments. In a social Media post on X, the Embassy of […]
Read MoreDuring his visit to Almaty, Chairman of the Customs Committee of Uzbekistan A. Mavlonov held a bilateral meeting with Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan J. Duisembiev. According to the Trade Turnover Expansion Program between the two countries, it is planned to increase the volume of foreign trade […]
Read MoreMalaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that separate talks with Myanmar’s junta leader and key opposition figures have yielded results, paving the way for the first direct contact between the two sides engaged in a long and destructive civil war. Last month, Anwar met with Junta chairman Min Aung Hlaing behind closed doors in Bangkok, […]
Read MoreThis is said in the joint statement of the two countries on further deepening the relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction in the new era in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, the Victory of the Chinese People in the War of Resistance […]
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