This combination image shows U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Nov. 6, 2021, and China’s President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Eraldo Peres, File) By The Associated Press President Joe Biden will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday for their first in-person meeting since the U.S.

By Anadolu Agency An explosion on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue Sunday killed six people and injured 81 others, the Turkish vice president said. Fuat Oktay, who visited the blast site, told the press at Istanbul’s Taksim Square that the blast is considered a terrorist act, and a female attacker detonated the bomb. Giving further details on

Police works at the scene after an explosion on busy pedestrian Istiklal street in Istanbul, Turkey, November 13, 2022. Photographer Kemal Aslan By Reuters Six people were killed and 53 others were wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb

By Anadolu Agency Two more French citizens have been detained in Iran, bringing the total number of people from France held in the Islamic republic to seven, the country’s foreign minister said on Saturday. “We are concerned about two other compatriots and it appears from the last verification that they are also detained,” Catherine Colonna

Credit to Photo Anadolu Agency By The Associated Press Bahrain voted Saturday in a parliamentary and local election just hours after hackers targeted government websites in the island kingdom that is in the midst of a decade-long crackdown on dissent. The Interior Ministry did not identify the websites targeted, but the country’s state-run Bahrain News

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with President of France, Emmanuel Macron, during a bilateral meeting during the COP27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photographer Stefan Rousseau/Reuters By Anadolu Agency The UK and France underlined the urgency of addressing irregular migration, a joint statement by the two countries’ foreign ministers said on Friday. The countries

Dominic Raab walks outside Number 10 Downing Street. Photographer Peter Nicholls/Reuters The Guardian By Pippa Crerar Exclusive: Some civil servants may have still been traumatised by his previous stint there, sources say Senior civil servants at the Ministry of Justice were offered “respite or a route out” of the department when Dominic Raab was reappointed

Hushpupi By The African Exponent Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, known for his lavish display of wealth on Instagram has been sentenced. He made a name for himself on Instagram as Hushpuppi, the influencer. He flaunted his overly luxurious and wealthy lifestyle, thus amassing about 2 million followers on the app who looked

By Anadolu Agency Italy’s policy of keeping its ports closed to ships carrying rescued migrants has raised tensions between Rome and Paris. This came as Italy’s new coalition government led by Giorgia Meloni, who took office on Oct. 22, did not open its ports to European-based NGO ships that demanded a safe harbor for the

A visitor holds a 17 carat diamond at a Petra Diamonds mine in Cullinan/File Photo By Reuters Petra Diamonds, which operates three mines in South Africa as well as Tanzania’s biggest diamond mine, said there had been no fatalities as a result of the incident and three minor injuries had been reported, adding a probe