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After the decision by the Kurdish militant group PKK to disband, Turkey was eyeing Wednesday a raft of legal and technical measures to ensure its full implementation and finally end a four-decade insurgency.

Monday’s announcement sought to draw a line under a bloody chapter that began in 1984 when the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) took up arms, triggering a conflict that cost more than 40,000 lives.

“What matters most is the implementation,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has an invitation to visit Iran, but the dates have not yet been agreed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today according to Reuters.

Iran’s government spokesman Fatemeh Mohajerani was quoted yesterday by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti as saying that Putin’s visit to Iran “is currently being worked out.”

Moscow and Tehran signed a 20-year strategic partnership agreement in January, the two countries have supplied each other with weapons,…

The worst fighting in Libya’s capital for years calmed today an hour after the government announced a ceasefire, Tripoli residents said, with no immediate statement from authorities on how many people had been killed, Reuters reports.

Clashes broke out late on Monday after the killing of a major militia leader. After calming on Tuesday morning, the fighting reignited overnight, with major battles rocking districts across the entire city.

“Regular forces, in…

The Suez Canal Authority has responded to a reported request by US President Donald Trump to allow American vessels to pass through the canal free of charge, stating that no ship is exempt from paying transit fees — not even Egyptian vessels.

In an interview with Egypt’s Al-Hadath Al-Youm TV channel yesterday, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, stated: “I have not received any official request of this nature, and we do not exempt any ship…

French President Emmanuel Macron has described the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in the Gaza Strip as “shameful and disgraceful.”

“What Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is doing today in Gaza is unacceptable. It is shameful and a disgrace,” Macron said yesterday.

“It is not for the prime minister to decide whether this constitutes genocide, but rather for historians,” he added.

During an interview with TF1,…

The budget for the African Atlantic Gas Pipeline project, which will run from Nigeria to Morocco, exceeds $25 billion, Morocco’s Minister of Energy Transition, Leila Benali, said yesterday.

The minister noted that the pipeline will help deliver energy to approximately 400 million people in 13 countries.

Addressing the House of Councillors, Benali asserted that the project would drive economic, industrial and digital development, generate jobs and strengthen…