Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands amid security personnel as he meets with voters at a mall in Ramle on October 19, 2026. (AFP Photo) October 24, 2026 05:10 PM GMT+03:00 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel must prepare for possible banking sanctions and that he has ordered a plan to get…
Baku [Azerbaijan], October 23 (ANI): External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar held a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, on Friday, with discussions held on bilateral ties, encompassing political dialogue, commerce, investment, energy, transport, tourism, education, science and cultural cooperation. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, during the meeting, EAM Jaishankar…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Gadi Eisenkot both oppose an independent Palestinian state, meaning next week’s election is unlikely to produce a sweeping shift in policies that have hampered a decades-old peace process. Three years since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, they also share hawkish positions towards Gaza, saying they…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 20. Tajik Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar discussed regional energy projects and ways to expand trade and transport links during a meeting in Dushanbe on October 20, Tajikistan’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade said. Dar arrived in Tajikistan to attend a meeting…
Palestinians transport bags of semolina past a military gate closed to vehicles during an Israeli army operation in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, a day after a Palestinian shooting attack in the area. Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean Palestinians cross on foot past a military gate closed to vehicles during an…
Georges Elhedery, chief executive of HSBC Holdings, said in Dubai that alternative logistics routes funded by Gulf states could make the Strait of Hormuz redundant in the medium term. He spoke at a forum organised by his bank, as the war pitting Iran against the United States and Israel has blocked or disrupted traffic through…
France will deploy 70,000 police officers across the country ahead of new protests scheduled for Saturday. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the authorities are strengthening security measures due to calls for violence and looting circulating online, Deutsche Welle reports. Enhanced security measures According to Nunez, regular police units will be reinforced with elite units, mounted…
TEHRAN — Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has called on members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to turn their economic potential into concrete joint projects, accelerate the establishment of an SCO Development Bank and expand cooperation in trade, energy, transportation and digital technology. Addressing the SCO Council of Heads of Government in…
Four young Israeli entrepreneurs, all aged 28, sold their startup in a multimillion-shekel deal closed before the first year since the company’s founding and without requiring any external funding from venture capitalists (VCs). Vizby, an AI-centered company specializing in marketing and performance improvement, sold to Swap Commerce for an undisclosed sum worth “millions of shekels,”…
ANKARA Türkiye and Canada launched a strategic partnership on Oct. 22, signing agreements on defense, air transport and energy and agreeing to begin free trade negotiations before the end of the year. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney adopted a three-year action plan during talks at the presidential complex in…
