By Anadolu Agency Armenia should stop its provocations along the border with Azerbaijan and instead make peace, said Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday. In the wake of Azerbaijan’s response to these provocations, “Armenia needs to learn its lesson and seek peace,” said Mevlut Cavusoglu. Speaking at an event in the Black Sea province of Kastamonu,

By The Associated Press William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya’s president on Tuesday after narrowly winning the Aug. 9 election in East Africa’s most stable democracy, and quickly signaled that his leadership would be a strongly Christian one. The Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge by losing candidate and longtime opposition figure Raila

Aliko Dangote Africa’s richest man/Reuters Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is among the VIPs attending President-elect William Ruto’s inauguration ceremony at Kasarani International Stadium today. According to Daily Nation reported. Mr Dangote, who is also Africa’s richest man, was spotted on the dais among the dignitaries and top Kenyan politicians who came to spectate the event.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern By Reuters New Zealand will not actively take any measures to become a republic in the short-term after the death of Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, though she expects the Pacific nation will eventually become one. “I’ve never sensed the urgency. There’s so many challenges we face.

By Reuters Some Turkish banks are curtailing corporate lending after the government’s latest raft of regulations raised their costs and forced many to cut their balance sheet risks, five banking and private sector sources told Reuters. The new rules, part of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox management of the economy, have especially depressed longer-term lending. The

By Anadolu Agency After winning the second four-year term, the opposition-backed governor of Japan’s southern Okinawa province on Monday reiterated his demand that the relocation of a US military base should be halted. However, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has insisted the US base within Okinawa will “only” be relocated from the Futenma

By Reuters China’s waiver of 23 interest-free loans to African countries last month amounted to only 1.1% or less of Chinese lending to the continent, a study showed on Monday. China’s foreign ministry said in August it had cancelled 23 loans to 17 African countries that matured in 2021, but did not give further details.

Carlos Alcaraz celebrates with the trophy after winning the U.S. Open Reuters/Shannon Stapleton By The Associated Press Walking out for his first Grand Slam final at age 19, Carlos Alcaraz bumped fists with fans leaning over a railing along the path leading to the Arthur Ashe Stadium court. Moments later, after the coin toss, Alcaraz

By Anadolu Agency Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s center-left coalition government looks likely to be voted out of office as all signs are pointing to a new right-wing government being formed after Sunday’s general election. Parliamentary votes in over 6,100 districts have now been counted, which corresponds to 93% of the vote. The right-wing bloc

By Reuters Britain dismissed as untrue on Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that only a fraction of grain exported from Ukraine under an international deal was going to poor countries. Putin said on Wednesday, without citing a source, that only two of 87 ships, carrying 60,000 tonnes of products, had gone to poor countries.