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Armenia and Azerbaijan may strike peace deal soon

28May

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Armenia, Azerbaijan

Armenia and Azerbaijan may strike peace deal soon

President Ilham Aliyev sees no “serious obstacles” to reaching an agreement with Yerevan FILE PHOTO: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev © Global Look Press / IMAGO Azerbaijan and Armenia may sign a peace agreement in the near future, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told local media on Sunday, without revealing the exact timetable of a potential deal. Baku sees no major obstacles to a deal after Yerevan recognized the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh as being part of Azerbaijan, he added. “Now that Armenia has recognized our territorial integrity, any serious obstacles to the peace treaty have de-facto vanished,” Aliyev said on Sunday. The president also said he was “sure” that a deal “could be signed in the near future” if t...

28May

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Turkey

Erdogan declares victory

Türkiye’s incumbent president has hailed the “democracy festival” that delivered him a second-round win Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech to supporters outside his residence in Istanbul, Türkiye, May 28, 2023 © AP / Francisco Seco Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory after beating challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a runoff election. Calling the election a “democracy festival,” Erdogan thanked “each and every member of the nation” for casting their votes. “We have completed the second round of the presidential elections with the favor of our people,” Erdogan told a crowd of supporters in Istanbul on Sunday night. “We will be ruling the country for the coming five years. God willing we will be worthy of yo...

Lukashenko explains how to obtain nuclear weapons

28May

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Belarus

Lukashenko explains how to obtain nuclear weapons

The Belarusian leader called on other post-Soviet nations to join Moscow and Minsk in the Union State FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko © Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev Post-Soviet nations that seek to bolster their defenses by hosting nuclear weapons on their territory should develop closer ties with Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russia 1 TV in an interview aired on Sunday. “No one is against Kazakhstan or other nations having just as close relations to the Russian Federation as we have,” Lukashenko told Pavel Zarubin of Russia 1 when asked about Astana’s recent comments regarding relations between Moscow and Minsk, which allows the two neighbors to share the nuclear shield. “One needs to join the Union S...

28May

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Middle East, Russia

Gulf nation snaps up Russian gold

The UAE has replaced the UK as the top destination for bullion from the sanctioned country © Getty Images / Bloomberg Creative The United Arab Emirates has become a key destination for Russian gold since Western governments closed their markets as part of Ukraine-related sanctions on Moscow, Reuters reports. According to the outlet, citing customs records, the Gulf state imported 75.7 tons of Russian gold worth $4.3 billion between February 24, 2022 and March 3, 2023. The figure represents an exponential rise from just 1.3 tons during 2021. China and Türkiye were the next biggest destinations, importing about 20 tons each during that period, data showed. Along with the UAE, the three countries accounted for 99.8% of Russian gold exports in the customs data for th...

Türkiye votes in decisive presidential runoff

28May

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Turkey

Türkiye votes in decisive presidential runoff

The results will determine the country’s course for the next five years FILE PHOTO © AP / Francisco Seco The polls have opened across Türkiye in a runoff election that will determine whether conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will retain power, or hand the reins over to his more liberal opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Polling stations opened at 8am local time in all 81 provinces, with more than 60 million people eligible to vote in Sunday’s runoff. Another 3.4 million Turkish citizens were eligible to vote abroad over the past week, but it is unknown how many cast their ballots. In the first round on May 14, turnout was almost 89% within the country, but only 49.4% abroad. News, forecasts, and commentary on the elections are not permitted...

Russia hasn’t started to ‘act seriously’ in Ukraine

27May

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Russia, Ukraine

Russia hasn’t started to ‘act seriously’ in Ukraine

The duration of hostilities is defined by NATO escalation efforts, Moscow’s ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, has said A Russian service member during a military exercise. © RIA Novosti The outcome of the Ukraine conflict hinges on whether NATO continues to prop up Kiev with arms shipments, Andrey Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK, said in an interview released on Saturday. Speaking to the BBC, when asked how long he thought it would take for the fighting to cease, Kelin replied that it “depends on the efforts in escalation of war that [are] being undertaken by NATO countries, especially by the UK.” The envoy went on to say that “it is a big idealistic mistake to think that Ukraine may prevail,” adding that Russia is 16 times bigger than...

South Korea approves Ukraine arms transfer

27May

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South Korea, Ukraine

South Korea approves Ukraine arms transfer

Seoul has claimed the Wall Street Journal report was partly “inaccurate” but declined to specify further FILE PHOTO: South Korean soldiers arrange 155mm howitzer shells during a military exercise in Goseong, South Korea, April 4, 2016. © AP / Newsis / Jang Se-young South Korea has agreed to send hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine under a “confidential arrangement” with the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move would mark an about-face for Seoul, which has been reluctant to authorize lethal aid to Kiev. Under the reported agreement, South Korea will first ship the munitions to the US, which will then forward them on to Ukraine, sources told the WSJ on Wednesday. Seoul and the Pentagon have so far de...

27May

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Germany, Russia

Germany jails man for supporting Russia

A German national has been sentenced to three years in prison for expressing online support for the Russian side in the Ukraine conflict. FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / Picture Alliance / Jonas Walzberg A Hamburg court has sentenced a local man to three years behind bars, finding him guilty of justifying “Russian aggression” against Ukraine and possessing an illegal weapon. The 32-year-old defendant, identified only as Marcel J., ran a pro-Russian Telegram channel, with its logo and name based on the unregistered ultranationalist Russian Drugaya Rossiya (Other Russia) party, Die Welt reported, citing the indictment. Apart from sharing “pro-Russian national-Bolshevik ideas,” the defendant openly branded Ukraine a “terrorist state” ...

Queen Elizabeth faced assassination threat in US

27May

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United Kingdom, USA

Queen Elizabeth faced assassination threat in US

Newly released documents detailed an “ever-present” danger to the British monarch FILE PHOTO. Queen Elizabeth II, second left, stands with, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, left, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, second right, and Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at London's Buckingham Palace, prior to a dinner with summit leaders June 10, 1984. © AP Photo A trove of newly released FBI documents has detailed an alleged IRA plot to kill Queen Elizabeth while the British monarch was on a state visit to the US in 1983. The documents, which are viewable in the FBI’s online vault, following their release on Monday, claim that federal agents received credible intelligence of threats to the Queen’s life when she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, were v...

US lawmakers unveil Taiwan war to-do list

27May

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China, USA

US lawmakers unveil Taiwan war to-do list

The 10-point action plan calls for a larger US military presence in the Pacific and additional security aid to Taipei FILE PHOTO: A Taiwanese tank fires at targets during a military exercise in Hengchun, Taiwan, September 7, 2022. © AP / Huizhong Wu American lawmakers have published a list of recommendations for how Washington should “arm Taiwan to the teeth” against any potential attacks from Beijing, urging for more US weapon sales to the island, as well as long-range missile deployments in the broader region. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released a lengthy document this week outlining proposals for how to halt Beijing’s “aggressive behavior” toward Taipei, including a 10-item “blueprint f...