The Biden administration said in February 2023 that it planned to write regulations barring the fees as officials pressured airlines to voluntarily not charge them. In May, Congress passed legislation that President Joe Biden signed into law directing a ban on the practice. Biden has repeatedly clashed with air carriers, calling for new, stricter consumer […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, started discussing that war during a speech praising his country’s defense industry. “We must be solid so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to […]
Consumer prices began slowing after reaching a peak of 75.45 percent in May. “The disinflation process has begun,” Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek wrote on X. Turkey has been battling a cost-of-living crisis that prompted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to drop his opposition to interest-rate hikes to combat inflation. The central bank began to raise its […]
Li is embarking on a six-day tour of New Zealand and Australia, key trading partners that have both expressed concerns over China’s expanding influence in the South Pacific. Naturally, we don’t always see eye-to-eye with each other on everything, Li told reporters after a bilateral meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. But such […]
President Raisi, the foreign minister, and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,” the senior Iranian official told Reuters, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter. Iran’s Mehr news agency confirmed the deaths, reporting that “all passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign […]
This is a difficult and very disappointing statement to hear from a president to whom we have been grateful since the beginning of the war,” Gilad Erdan told Israeli public broadcaster Kan radio, in Israel’s first reaction to Biden’s warning. Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet […]
The assurance was given by President Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa during a meeting with a Pakistani delegation led by Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Khan Cheema in the Georgian Capital Tbilisi. The President ADB reposed trust in Pakistan’s reform agenda and appreciated the required tough stabilization measures taken by the government to bring […]
During his visit to Pakistan, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi conveyed a profound sense of solidarity and mutual respect with his statement, “We feel a strong connection with our Pakistani friends.” This sentiment underscores the enduring bond and shared history between Iran and Pakistan, which extends beyond mere geographical proximity to encompass cultural, religious, and historical […]
Addressing a news briefing in Washington Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. State Department said, that in context to Iran “I’m confident in saying that unleashing hundreds and hundreds of UAVs and ballistic missiles on Israel is certainly not any kind of action that is actually in the interest and for the benefit […]
The president, talking to Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Reza Amiri Moghadam, who called on him, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, said that both countries had great scope for expanding bilateral economic cooperation in diverse fields. Talking to the ambassador, the president expressed his commitment further to strengthen bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries. He called for […]
