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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has met with his Iraqi counterpart Haibat al-Halbousi during his visit to Baghdad, discussing bilateral issues. The Iranian parliamentary delegation, headed by Ghalibaf, visited the Iraqi parliament on Wednesday, hours after they arrived in Baghdad, where talks were held with al-Halbousi and a number of Iraqi lawmakers. The two speakers then held…
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has condemned and dismissed the attack on the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister’s office as a false-flag operation. Nothing justifies the reckless attack on Prime Minister Barzani’s office, Araghchi wrote in a post on his X account. He added that Kurdish friends should be vigilant against false-flag ploys that are designed to sow discord between neighbors. “We…
US President Donald Trump has hailed the joint defence pact recently signed between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, terming it a "bold and important first step". "It shows how the Middle East is coming together, and how Countries will finally be able to defend themselves in a more meaningful way," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Monday. The US president congratulated the leadership of…
A dozen people were killed and at least 10 injured after a Polish bus overturned at night on a motorway in eastern Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday morning in a Facebook post. The bus ran into a ditch and tipped over early on Sunday near the town of Mezokeresztes in eastern Hungary, police said, adding that the bus was heading towards the city of Nyiregyhaza on…
Around 5,000 people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake smashed an area in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 51, blocking roads and causing landslides, authorities said on Sunday. Thirty-six people were seriously injured in the Saturday morning quake in East Nusa Tenggara province, while 77 had minor injuries, Deputy Health Minister Benjamin Paulus Octavianus told a televised…
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has condemned the US threats and airstrikes against Iran’s civilian infrastructure as clear war crimes, and warned that normalizing such "unprecedented violations" of the Geneva Conventions would erode the international legal order. In a post on his X account on Wednesday marking the 77th anniversary of the adoption of the four Geneva…
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has pointed to the United States’ intelligence failures and miscalculations, saying the war against Iran has been a clear example of those errors, and that Washington has now made an even bigger miscalculation regarding the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on his X account on Thursday, Araghchi wrote, “The US has long miscalculated due to intelligence failures. Case in…
Russia and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, COMSTECH, have discussed new avenues for cooperation in science, technology and higher education. Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert P. Khorev held talks with a COMSTECH delegation led by Coordinator General Professor Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary in Islamabad on August 12. The sides…
Russia and Pakistan are working to launch their first freight railway routes connecting Moscow with Karachi and Faisalabad, with the possible participation of Belarus, Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert P. Khorev has said. In comments to Russian newspaper Izvestia on August 8, Ambassador Khorev said the two countries were working on launching freight railway services along the Moscow–Faisalabad…
President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, based on collective deterrence, will contribute to advancing our security and defense cooperation. In a post on X today, he said the agreement will also contribute to developing joint projects in the defence industry and to combating terrorism. He said the agreement, which also reaffirms the right of defence as…
