NATO member states have pledged to buy hundreds of millions more dollars of US weapons for Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was told to end his “bluster” and get serious on peace negotiations.
Foreign ministers from the 32-nation…
Category: 1. Iran
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Israel, Ukraine strengthen ties in first senior-level visit since war
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 4 (ANI/TPS): Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Wednesday met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Tars Kachka in Jerusalem, marking the first visit by a senior Ukrainian official since the 2022 war in…
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Iran moderates sound alarm over lost role as buffer between state, people
Around eleven o’clock on a winter Thursday night in Tehran, when smog hangs low and the city braces for yet another morning of inflation, something improbable happens.
People lift their phones and dial into a live call-in program that invites…
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Lebanon, Israel Hold First Direct Talks In Decades: AFP
Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks Wednesday in decades, part of a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war, a source close to the negotiations told AFP.
The meeting was taking place at the UN…
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Taliban: US National Guard Shooting ‘does Not Concern’ Afghanistan
The Taliban announced Wednesday that the shooting of two National Guard members, one fatally, by an Afghan suspect in Washington last month had nothing to do with Afghanistan.
“The person who committed this act was trained by the Americans…
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Iran boosts gas exports to Turkey despite deepening domestic shortages
Around eleven o’clock on a winter Thursday night in Tehran, when smog hangs low and the city braces for yet another morning of inflation, something improbable happens.
People lift their phones and dial into a live call-in program that invites…
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Ukraine’s NATO Membership ‘key Question’ In Talks With US: Russia
Putin’s top aide, Yury Ushakov, made the comment on Wednesday, the day after a five-hour meeting between Putin and Washington officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner failed to deliver a breakthrough in Ukraine peace negotiations.
“The…
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Chasing Hope Behind the Sun: The Invisible Balochistan
Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest yet most neglected province. It stretches across the country’s southwestern edge, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, with a long coastline on the Sea of Oman-conditions that could have made it a corridor of…
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Iran protest anthem crooner takes heat for official license on debut album
Internal contestation is harsher than at any time in recent memory, with competing factions trying to preserve or redefine their place in a system that has lost the capacity for reform or institutional expansion.
Yet Iran’s nearly 50-year-old…
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