ISTANBUL : Northern Cyprus President Ersin Tatar flew to New York on Saturday for talks with UN officials, aiming to secure support for ending the international isolation of Turkish Cypriots. Tatar is set to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss demands for direct flights, trade, international contact and the

ISTANBUL: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for UN reform on Sunday, stating before the General Assembly that the Security Council is “clearly no longer fit” to address contemporary challenges. “Placing the fate of the world’s security in the hands of a select few when it is the vast majority

WASHINGTON: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the US on Saturday to address the 79th session of the UN General Assembly this week. Before heading to New York, Erdogan said he would address the assembly on Tuesday, the first day of the talks. “This year’s General Assembly debate will

ANKARA: McLaren’s Lando Norris from the UK dominated Sunday’s Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, finishing the race at least 20 seconds clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Norris won the 62-lap Singapore Grand Prix held at 4.94-kilometer (about 3.1-mile) Marina Bay Street Circuit as he saw the checkered flag first

ISTANBUL: The Danube River swelled to record levels in Hungary’s capital Budapest early on Saturday, reaching up to 830 centimeters (over 27.2 feet), according to the national news agency, MTI. The water level started to recede after the peak at about 5 a.m., reportedly dropping 2 cm between over the

ISTANBUL: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Sunday condemned an Israeli raid of Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah and the subsequent closure of the bureau. In a post on its X account, the press freedom organization said Israeli soldiers stormed the Qatar-based media group’s office