South Korea and Syria have formally established diplomatic relations, in another milestone for the transitional government of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa. Diplomatic ties were formalised yesterday in Damascus between South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. During the ceremony, Cho said South Korea was...
Brazil has scheduled the preliminary round of negotiations that help countries prepare for the global climate summit, known as COP30, for October, roughly a month before the main event starts at the Amazonian city of Belem, the government’s special secretary for COP30, Valter Correia da Silva
The early negotiations, called...
Russia and the United States on Thursday began the second round of consultations in Istanbul, focusing on the normalisation of operation of their respective embassies.
The Russian delegation is led by Moscow’s Ambassador to Washington, Alexander Darchiev while the US delegation is headed by Sonata Coulter, the Deputy Assistant Secretary...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday stated that the EU will pause its countermeasures against the US tariffs for 90 days to give “negotiations a chance.”
She further warned that countermeasures will kick in if “negotiations are not satisfactory.”
Sharing a post on X, von der Leyen wrote,...
Russia, the world’s second biggest oil exporter, said on Wednesday that Ukraine continued to strike Russian energy infrastructure on a daily basis, in violation of a U.S.-brokered 30-day moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure.
Ukraine and Russia agreed on March 18 to stop attacking each other’s energy facilities, although President...
The death toll from the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has risen to 3,645, with 5,017 people injured and 148 still missing, the State Administration Council’s information team revealed last evening.
According to the country’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, 98 aftershocks have also hit Myanmar since the devastating earthquake...
European Union countries are expected to approve on Wednesday the bloc’s first countermeasures against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, joining China and Canada in retaliating and escalating a conflict that could become a global trade war.
The approval will come on the day that Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on the EU...
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates launched successfully to the International Space Station on Tuesday on board a Russian spacecraft.
A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-27 carrying the trio in orbit. They...
The death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck the country Myanmar has now risen to at least 3,471, amid intense rainfall further complicating relief efforts and heightening the risk of disease
According to Al Jazeera, aid workers in Mandalay, a city near the earthquake’s epicentre, reported that overnight rain...
