AA / Bagdad / Mohammad Farid The investigation department of the Iraqi Integrity Commission announced the disappearance of 120 billion Iraqi dinars (82.9 million dollars) from the income of a company of the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources in the governorate of Babylon (center). The department said in a statement released by the Iraqi … Read more
AA / Ankara / Diyar Guldogan The president of Türkiye called on the United States on Monday to find the “terrorist” who attacked the Turkish House in New York. “In Europe, the (terrorist group) PKK saw that things were getting worse, they started attacking voters. What’s more, they attacked the Turkish House in the United … Read more
AA / New York / Betul Yuruk The UN on Monday condemned the attack on the headquarters of Turkish diplomacy in New York and called for the opening of an investigation. “We condemn today’s attack on the Turkish House in New York and we are hopeful that local authorities will identify those responsible,” UN spokesman … Read more
AA / Washington / Rabia İclal Turan A former US Department of Defense official said on Tuesday that Afghanistan was “again a safe haven for terrorists”. “Most of us know that what happens in Afghanistan, unfortunately, doesn’t stay there,” former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, Simone Ledeen, told a hearing. of … Read more
Trenton/Barry Ellsworth/Anatolia Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand announced Thursday that four German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks will soon arrive in Ukraine. Anand said, “The Leopard 2 tanks, drawn from Canada’s stockpile of about 80 combat units, are ready for use on the battlefield as Ukraine defends itself against Russian forces.” She added, in a press … Read more
Abdul-Jabbar Aburas / Anatolia The leader of the extremist anti-Islam PEGIDA group in the Netherlands, Edwin Wagensfeld, burned the copy of the Noble Qur’an after it was torn and desecrated, in The Hague, the country’s administrative capital. On Monday, the extremist shared a video clip of his provocative act, which took place in front of … Read more
Belgrade/Anatolia Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday they would continue to seek consensual solutions to maintain peace between his country and Kosovo. He said this at a press conference, after the meeting with the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, “Porfiri” in the capital, Belgrade. Vujicic criticized Kosovo’s conditions for allowing the patriarch to … Read more
AA / Washington / Mennatallah Said US President Joe Biden has agreed to declare a state of emergency in Western New York state amid snowstorms that have killed about 50 people across the US. Biden on Monday issued an emergency declaration for Erie and Genesee counties calling for the mobilization of federal resources needed to … Read more
Ahmed Hatem / Anatolia Hermes (private) financial group said initial public offering volume in the Gulf region amounted to $21 billion this year, representing 23 percent of the total global signings of $91 billion. Hermes, which is listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange, said in a report on Monday that the increase in subscription volume … Read more
Beirut/Wassim Saif Al-Din/Anatolia French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will take “initiatives regarding (the current political crisis in) Lebanon” in the coming weeks. Macron’s statement came in an interview with Lebanese newspapers ‘An-Nahar’, ‘Le Monde’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’ published on Friday, following his attendance at the ‘Baghdad 2’ conference in the … Read more