Category Politics

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was summoned for questioning by police on Saturday on terrorism charges, a day after he was questioned in a corruption case. His arrest this week sparked mass protests across Turkey, with demonstrators taking to the streets…

A library located on the border between the United States and Canada is facing new restrictions on movement due to the U.S. administration’s moves to tighten border controls. For over a hundred years, residents of Stansted, Quebec, Canada, could travel…

U.S. Senator Steve Daines is in Beijing as America and China trade tariff threats and harsh words over each other’s efforts to combat the illicit fentanyl trade. Mr Daines, a Republican from Montana and a vocal supporter of US President…

NASA’s spacecraft will make another close approach to the Sun, the second of three planned passes through the sun’s hot atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking first flyby of 3.8 million miles (six million kilometers) from the Sun…

Two brothers were arrested and appeared in court in Zimbabwe on Friday accused of carrying out an armed robbery at the home of the parents of new International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry, where they are alleged to have stolen…

French authorities said a French citizen who had been held in Iran for more than 880 days had been released and returned home, along with another Frenchman who had been under house arrest in Tehran. The release of the men…

Iran celebrated its annual fire festival. This ancient festival, known in Farsi as Chaharshanbe Suri, takes place on the last Tuesday before Nowruz, the Persian New Year (March 20). People jump over and around the lights, shouting, “My yellow is…

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for a “pragmatic approach” to prevent the EU-US tariff dispute from escalating into a full-blown trade war, and expressed support for US President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine. Speaking in…

Unredacted materials relating to the assassination of 35th US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 were released on Tuesday at the direction of US President Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration. Over 1,100 documents totaling more than 31,000 pages were…

Iran has again denied accusations of supporting Yemen’s Houthis after the United States carried out a series of airstrikes against them, and President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would bear “full responsibility” for its actions. The Houthi health ministry said…