Russia and the United States carried out a historic prisoner exchange, the BBC writes. A total of 24 people have been released on the margins of the deal that involved at least seven countries. The s...
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At 10:44 a.m. local time (at 6:44 a.m. GMT) on Aug. 2, an earthquake, measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale, happened on the Armenia-Georgia border, 16 kilometers northeast of Bavra village, the RA MIA S...
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former foreign minister of Iran, has been appointed the country’s vice president. According to Tasnim, the new president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has appointed Zarif as vi...
In Turkey, the operation of the social networking service Instagram was blocked on Friday morning by the decision of Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority. The reasons and dura...
Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Vedant Patel spoke about Armenian prisoners kept in Azerbaijani prisons at a press briefing. He noted that, in the context of the broader...
Armenian-Turkish border issues were discussed the other day. Special representatives Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kılıç were involved in the so-called “normalization process”. After the meeting, Turkey d...
Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah fired missiles at the positions of the Israel Defense Forces near the southern border of Lebanon, RIA Novosti writes, referring to its anonymous source. “Lebanese Hezb...
Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. Dmitry Polyansky announced that official Moscow plans to raise the issue of the supply of Western F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine at the organiz...
The Ministry of Defense of Israel has signed a contract for the purchase of ammunition worth $340 million from Elbit Systems, the press service of Israel’s Defense Ministry said, adding that Elbit Sys...
In a Telegram post, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the deputy chairman of the International Relations Committee of Russia’s Federation Council, commented on the statements made by U.S. Assistant Secretary of Sta...
Thousands have turned out for the funeral procession in Iran of the Hamas political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, the BBC writes. Haniyeh was killed in a strike in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran’s Supreme Leader...
The law on foreign agents came into force in Georgia on Aug. 1, Interfax reports. According to the Foreign Influence Transparency Act, NGOs and media outlets with 20% or more of their income from fore...
