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U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea

Thursday 19-01-2023 03:09 PM

For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv ...

Netanyahu told by Israel’s supreme court he must fire key ally from cabinet

Thursday 19-01-2023 02:48 PM

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must fire a key ally from the country’s new cabinet, presenting the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis ...

S. Korea, Iran summon each other’s envoys over Yoon comment

Thursday 19-01-2023 02:03 PM

South Korea and Iran have summoned each other’s ambassadors in a diplomatic spat triggered by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s comments describing Iran as the “enemy” of the United Arab ...

Berlin Won’t Allow Exports of German Tanks to Ukraine Unless U.S. Sends Its Own

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:50 PM

Germany won’t allow allies to ship German-made tanks to Ukraine to help its defense against Russia nor send its own systems unless the U.S. agrees to send American-made battle tanks, senior German ...

Russian Spy or Ukrainian Hero? The Strange Death of Denys Kiryeyev

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:19 PM

Days after Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian intelligence agents left a corpse on a sidewalk in the center of Kyiv with a bullet hole in the back of the skull. The dead man, 45-year-old banker ...

Iran is spinning out of control, just like the last days of the Shah

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:04 PM

The last days of the Shah of Iran have become a cautionary tale. The absolute ruler of Iran, who had the best equipped army in the Islamic Middle East, extreme oil wealth, and the backing of the ...

Saved from death at sea, Syrian refugees face deportation

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:25 PM

On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon. Since the ...

Iran arrests German for photographing oil facility

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:17 PM

A German national has been arrested in Iran after photographing an oil facility, two semi-official news agencies reported on Tuesday. The Tasnim news agency and the Student News Network, ...

Iran welcomes steps toward Turkey-Syria reconciliation

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:09 PM

Iran welcomes steps toward a reconciliation between Turkey and Syria and is ready to help move the efforts forward, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Tuesday. The Iranian ...

UN: Al-Qaida and Islamic State driving insecurity in Mali

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:45 PM

Al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated areas in the northern Gao and Menaka regions, the U.N. chief said in a new ...

Senior Iranian ex-diplomats expressing open criticism of regime

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:30 PM

Senior former Iranian diplomats are expressing open criticism of their government, warning that by failing to revive the nuclear deal and supplying drones to Russia in Ukraine, the country risks ...

Iranian-American Prisoner in Tehran Starts Hunger Strike

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:54 PM

The longest-held American prisoner in Iran began what he said would be a weeklong hunger strike on Monday to demand his immediate release, appealing directly to President Biden to negotiate ...

Zelensky adviser quits after claim Ukraine shot down missile that hit flats

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:41 PM

A high-profile Ukrainian presidential adviser has resigned after he sparked fury by saying that a Russian missile that killed dozens of people was deflected on to a block of flats by Ukraine’s air ...

Shamima Begum tells her story in new podcast I’m Not a Monster

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:49 PM

The BBC series features testimony from the former Isis recruit and those who know her “I felt like I was not inside my body, it felt like a dream,” says Shamima Begum of the moment she left ...

Turkey seeks to reassure allies on Nato enlargement

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:44 PM

Turkey has called on Sweden and Finland to do more to settle a dispute over the Nordic pair’s bid to join Nato and said expansion of the military alliance was vital to stability in its own ...