The strategic intimacy between Xi Jinping and Iran is not an accident of diplomacy. It is a feature of a far more brutal design: a global system where massive Chinese trade surpluses weaken Western economies while financing instability abroad.
Jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Friday that peace-related laws were needed for a transition to democratic integration in Turkey, in a statement read out a year after he called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to end its decades-old insurgency and disband.
Former Tunisian prime minister Ali Larayedh was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in prison on charges of facilitating Tunisian jihadists’ travel to Syria over the past decade, state media said.
The U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Iran, warning that dozens more people risk execution after the first death sentence linked to January mass protests was issued this week.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi emerged from Thursday's nuclear talks in Geneva with a familiar message: the United States must avoid "excessive demands" if diplomacy is to succeed.
Pakistan bombed Taliban government targets in Afghanistan's major cities overnight, officials from both countries said on Friday, with Pakistan's defence minister calling the conflict "open war"
The United States has warned Syria against relying on Chinese technology in its telecommunications sector, arguing it conflicts with U.S. interests and threatens U.S. national security, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The United States and Iran made significant progress in talks on Thursday aimed at resolving a longstanding nuclear dispute and averting new U.S. strikes, mediator Oman said, amid Washington's large-scale military buildup in the Middle East.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, is under fire from multiple directions, and for good reason. Germany, France, Italy and several other European nations have called for her resignation, while Israel has formally accused her of flagrantly violating the UN's own code of conduct.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up a two-day visit to Jerusalem Thursday, cementing what both leaders described as a deepening and forward-looking partnership between the two nations.
US-Iran indirect negotiations resumed Thursday in Geneva for a third round, described by Tehran as "intense and serious."
The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
To make this website run properly and to improve your experience, we use cookies. For more detailed information, please check our Cookie Policy.
Necessary cookies enable core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.