ANKARA -- Türkiye and Egypt will work closely on regional issues, particularly on Libya and Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
"We want to fill the new page we opened with Egypt with joint projects and success stories," Cavusoglu said at a joint press conference with visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in the Turkish capital of Ankara. (Türkiye-Egypt-FM-Visit)
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TEHRAN -- Iran on Thursday called for "impartial international probes" into reports of the U.S.-funded military biological laboratories in Ukraine and other parts of the world.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani issued the call in a post on his Twitter page, in response to a report released on Wednesday by a Russian parliamentary commission investigating Washington's military-related biological activities in Ukraine. (Iran-US Bio Labs-Probes)
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TEHRAN -- Iranian foreign minister on Thursday said Afghanistan is in need of regional cooperation to solve its current challenges rather than the U.S.-led intervention that had pushed the country toward poverty and instability.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks during a quadrilateral meeting with Chinese, Russian, and Pakistani representatives on the sidelines of the foreign ministers' meeting among the neighboring countries of Afghanistan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry's website. (Iran-Afghanistan-U.S. Policies)
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KHARTOUM -- The tension between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an armed faction, rose to a new high on Thursday amid heavy military build-up around the Merowe airport in northern Sudan.
The Sudanese army warned against the RSF deployment in the capital Khartoum and other cities without its approval. (Sudan-Army-Faction-Rising Tension)
