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ISTANBUL: China underscored Tuesday the need and urgency to ‘jointly’ create a safe environment for cooperation between the two countries, reiterating that relations with Pakistan were a ‘priority’ in its foreign relations. It was expressed in a joint statement released in Islamabad after Chinese Premier Li Qiang held talks with

ISTANBUL: The Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year, researchers from three atmospheric science institutes, including NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Solar Cycle Prediction Panel, announced during a teleconference. Every 11 years, the sun switches between low and high magnetic activity.

Bad weather returned to Liguria Wednesday with rivers breaking their banks and roads flooded across the northwestern Italian region. The Bormida river flooded in the Savona area in the towns of Ferrania, Altare and Cairo Montenotte due to heavy rains. Train traffic is suspended between Loano and Pietra Ligure (Savona).

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar discussed with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres the continuation of the two sides’ informal dialogue in a more expanded format, with the participation of the guarantor powers, that will be led probably not by his Personal Envoy María Ángela

ISTANBUL: Russia on Wednesday claimed that it took control of two settlements in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine continues. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces captured the village of Krasnyi Yar, located about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) east of

ISTANBUL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday presented his ‘victory plan,’ a blueprint aimed at ending the war with Russia that continues since February 2022, to the parliament. Speaking at the Verkhovna Rada in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy outlined five points that formulate the plan, the first of which is