Turkey must be included in all of Europe’s defense and security structures, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday, a week ahead of a key NATO summit in Ankara.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that $6 billion of the $12 billion in frozen assets in Qatar will be released and transferred to Tehran, Iranian media reported Monday.
South Korea plans to establish a new semiconductor production base that would house four memory chip manufacturing plants in the southwestern region of the country, with investments totaling 800 trillion won ($517.9 billion).
Beijing warned Australia against playing “geopolitical games” on Monday after Canberra signed a sweeping economic and security pact with Vanuatu that bars the establishment of a military base in the Pacific nation.
China added 20 Japanese organizations, including major companies, to a blacklist on Monday over the export of items that can be used for both military and civilian purposes, escalating a months-long row between Beijing and Tokyo.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the country was suffering from “a certain shortage” of fuel in an interview published by the Kremlin Sunday, after repeated Ukrainian strikes in their four-year war.
A US official said that Washington and Tehran agreed to halt attacks after new tit-for-tat strikes strained their interim deal, with the sides planning to renew talks aimed at ending the Middle East war.
Pakistan carried out airstrikes overnight in eastern Afghanistan, Islamabad said on Monday, as the Taliban government confirmed that Pakistani strikes in eastern provinces of Afghanistan killed 36 civilians and wounded 163 on Monday.
The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognized the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, a move widely seen as a rebuke to Turkey and a stark signal of the deepening rift between the two countries.
The defense ministers of South Korea and Japan reaffirmed on Sunday their countries’ commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, despite Pyongyang’s repeated pledges to expand its nuclear arsenal.
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