ANKARA: ‌Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that ​reactions from the European Union and others to the approval of a maritime agreement between Turkiye and Libya had ‌no legitimate ‌basis, ​defending ‌Ankara’s policy ⁠in ​the eastern ⁠Mediterranean. “We are not seeking to score points against anyone in the eastern Mediterranean,” Erdogan said, ⁠adding that those ‌seeking to ‌exclude Turkiye from ​the ‌region must respect ‌the will of Turkiye and Libya. Libya’s eastern-based parlia

QUETTA, Pakistan: Thousands of trucks remain stranded on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border despite the resumption of limited overland trade between the two countries, southwest Pakistan business representatives told AFP on Monday. Mir Naveed Jan Kalmati, president of the chamber of commerce for Gwadar city on Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast, said the frontier with Iran was “only partially open” to trade, with a vast backlog of vehicles at the border. There were “three to four thousand truck

SAO PAULO: US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Brazil’s elections were “rigged,” as his ally Flavio Bolsonaro called for the annulment of the poll won by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, who turns 81 on Tuesday, pulled off a dramatic comeback after losing to to Bolsonaro in a first-round vote, a defeat which fired up the left on the streets and social media to secure him a fourth term in office. Lula pulled around 4.4 million more votes than his rival. Right-wi

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute James Comey for what it calls a decade-old leak of classified information, an effort the former FBI director’s lawyers immediately dismissed as invalid and outside the legal time limit for when the Justice Department can file a criminal indictment. The allegations from the Justice Department were revealed Monday in newly unsealed court documents that shed light on a closed-door fight that represents a clear escalation in the adminis

Syrian Airlines will resume direct flights between Berlin and Damascus on November 10, marking its first service in over a decade due to the civil war's impact on aviation. This initiative, aimed at facilitating travel for the approximately one million Syrians living in Germany, follows recent similar services operated by other carriers.