Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Tuesday expressed Jordan’s full support for Lebanon to overcome the current crisis and restore Lebanon’s security and status in the Arab region. Safadi made the [Read More]
A chef and his team at a bakery in Istanbul began to cook “Ramadan pitas” in the early morning on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. They planned to prepare about 4,000 [Read More]
Greece’s general elections will be held on May 21, the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday. “The general elections will be held at the end of the (government’s) four-year term, as I had [Read More]
German vaccine maker BioNTech has said it expects sales of its COVID-19 vaccine to fall to around 5 billion euros (5.4 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023, the company said Monday. In 2022, BioNTech recorded sales [Read More]
The Hungarian parliament on Monday approved legislation allowing Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 182 members of parliament voted in favor and six against, while 11 lawmakers were absent. Besides the far-right [Read More]
Türkiye’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the French ambassador to condemn the French Senate for hosting members of two Syrian Kurdish groups that Ankara considers as “terrorists.” The ministry officials told Herve Magro, French ambassador [Read More]
Six people died Monday when a semi-trailer truck crashed into two automobiles in Istanbul, Türkiye’s largest city, Istanbul governor’s office announced in a statement. The accident occurred at 3:30 p.m. local time (1230 GMT) on [Read More]
Nationwide strikes in Germany brought train, bus, and airplane traffic to a virtual standstill on Monday, affecting millions of travelers. Freight traffic was also heavily disturbed. All major airports in Europe’s largest economy were hit [Read More]
Ukraine received the first batch of Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday, citing German news outlet Der Spiegel. The German-made tanks were handed over to Ukraine two months after Berlin’s [Read More]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday evening that he would suspend the legislation of his contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary by about a month to allow “dialogue” between coalition and opposition [Read More]
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