Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signalled that Ankara could accept Finland into NATO before taking any action on the membership of its Nordic neighbour Sweden. According to international media reports, Erdogan was speaking just days after Ankara suspended NATO accession talks with the two countries after a protest in Stockholm in which a far-right مزید پڑھیں

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Saturday a “strong, swift and precise” response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts, as its military sent more troops into the occupied West Bank. Seven people were killed in Friday’s attack and two others were wounded in another shooting in the city مزید پڑھیں

An explosion at a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan was caused by a failed drone attack, Iranian state media has said, citing the Defence Ministry. “One of (the drones) was hit by the air defence and the other two were caught in defence traps and blew up. Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack did مزید پڑھیں

A gunman has killed seven people near a synagogue in an Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem before being fatally shot, in an escalation of violence following a deadly Israeli military raid in the West Bank a day earlier. According to international media reports, after Friday’s shooting, the Magen David Adom emergency service confirmed that مزید پڑھیں

A court in Mali has sentenced a man to death over a 2019 attack that killed three United Nations peacekeepers, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said on Wednesday, without naming the defendant. Mali, an arid West African country run by a military government, has been struggling for a decade with violence from armed non-state actors that مزید پڑھیں

At least 150 people and tens of thousands of cattle have died due to freezing temperatures across Afghanistan, as Afghans reel from a spell of cold weather amid a humanitarian crisis. According to international media reports, the country’s Ministry of Disaster Management said on Wednesday that 150 people and 70,000 cattle have died in the مزید پڑھیں

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine and allow other countries such as Poland to do so while the United States may supply Abrams tanks, two sources familiar with the matter said. The decision concerns at least one company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks that will be provided مزید پڑھیں

Labour leader Chris Hipkins was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister in a formal ceremony on Wednesday, following the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week. The Labour party elected former COVID-19 Response and Police minister Hipkins, 44, to lead the party and the country on Sunday. Ardern, 42, resigned last week, مزید پڑھیں

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Sweden that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Quran outside Ankara’s embassy in Stockholm during a protest. According to international media, “Those who allow such blasphemy in front of our embassy [in Stockholm] can no longer expect our support for مزید پڑھیں

A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons will take part in exercises with the Chinese and South African navies in February, according to Russian media. The report on Monday was the first official mention of the participation by the Russian frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov. The frigate is armed مزید پڑھیں