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2024/10/08

Why a stalled Ukrainian offensive could represent a huge political problem for Zelensky in the US
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One of #Ukraine#’s greatest tragedies as it pursues a critical offensive that has, so far, failed to meet its own and Western expectations is that it cannot, by itself, decide its destiny. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s #government# is dependent on a massive pipeline of US and western arm

A new era of cooperation between Iran and Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD The three day long #visit# of #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian to Pakistan signifies the tremendous progress that the two countries have made in boosting their ties in recent months. The #visit# resulted in the signing of a five year strategic plan for commercial cooperati



Any external meddling into Niger’s affairs counterproductive...

MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. #Russia# considers any interference in Niger’s domestic affairs counterproductive, said Oleg Ozerov, the #Russia#n Foreign Ministry’s ambassador at large and head of the Secretariat of the #Russia# Africa Partnership Forum. #Russia# views events in these countries a

Young Indian entrepreneurs seek ‘strategic alliances’ with Saudi Arabia at G20 meet...

NEW DELHI: Indian startups will pursue new alliances with Saudi Arabia, their representatives said on Thursday, as the Kingdom’s delegation arrived in New Delhi for the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance Summit. The summit from July 13 to 15 will see hundreds of young entrepreneurs from the G

Lavrov tells Turkish counterpart that course to weapons supplies to Kiev is destructive...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. #Russia#n Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told his #Turkish# counterpart, Hakan Fidan, that the course toward continuing weapons supplies to Kiev is destructive, the #Russia#n foreign ministry said on Sunday after their telephone conversation. #Ankara#’s attention was dr

France’s Le Pen says Crimea 'has nothing to dó with conflict in Ukraine...

PARIS, June 15. /TASS/. Crimea is an inseparable part of #Russia# and has #nothing# to do with today’s conflict in #Ukraine#, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the parliamentary faction of the National Rally party, told #France# Info radio on Thursday. Crimea has #nothing# to do with the conflict in Ukra

Google launches AI powered advertiser features in push for automation...

LONDON: Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday it is launching two new artificial intelligence powered features for advertisers that will automatically find the #best# ad placements for brands across the tech company’s services. AI has dominated the tech #industry# in recent months as Google a

Iran salutes Latin America again...

TEHRAN � #Iran#ian President Ebrahim Raisi left Tehran for Caracas in a tour of three Latin American countries on Monday #morning#. The #visit# is expected to boost #Iran#’s relations with Latin American countries. In his tour, President Raisi is accompanied by a large politico economi

Iran prioritizing balanced foreign policy and economic diplomacy: Amir Abdollahian...

TEHRAN � #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has underlined the priorities of the #Iran#ian foreign policy, saying that the Raisi administration has prioritized pursuing a balanced foreign policy and shoring up economic diplomacy. In an interview with khamenei.ir, Amir Ab

Meteorologists targeted in climate misinformation surge...

PARIS: Once trusted faces on the #news#, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even fixing the weather. Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused #Spain#’s weather agency of en

Speakers of Iran, Uzbekistan parliaments hold meeting in Tehran...

TEHRAN � Uzbek #Parliament# Speaker Nurdinjon Ismoilov arrived in Tehran late on Friday and met Saturday with his #Iran#ian counterpart Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. Ismoilov is #visit#ing #Iran# at the invitation of Qalibaf. He arrived in #Iran# at the head of an Uzbek parliamentary delegation.

Major international institutions are losing their purpose...

In a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA's YouTube channel Chairman of the Board of the Knowledge #public# association Vadim Gigin gave his take on the devaluation of major international institutions. “We are witnessing the devaluation of the main international universal ins

Oil demand set to rise despite global economic headwinds...

RIYADH: Despite escalating geopolitical tensions and the resulting economic slowdown, global oil demand is expected to increase by 2.3 million barrels per day in 2023, a top official from the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries told Independent Arabia. Jamal Al Loughani, the recent

IRAN FM VISITS BORDER WITH OCCUPIED PALESTINE...

TEHRAN As part of his tour of Lebanon, #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian #visit#ed Maroun Al Ras village near the border with the occupied #Palestine# #where# he insisted on supporting the resistance movement against #Israel#. Addressing reporters, Amir Abdollahian praised all martyrs wh

Ukraine clash resuscitating scenario of war between nuclear powers ...

MINSK, April 28. /TASS/. The conflict in #Ukraine# is serving to revitalize the most dangerous scenarios involving a direct clash between nuclear powers, which could bring about devastating consequences, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said on Friday. It [the #Ukraine# conflict] has trigg

No matter how complicated Ukrainian crisis may be, it must end by negotiations ...

BEIJING, April 27. /TASS/. No matter how complicated the conflict in #Ukraine# may be, it must be resolved at a negotiation table, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said during the meeting with foreign ministers of Central Asian countries in Xi An in northwestern #China#. No matter how complicated t


Britain to take on Big Tech with new legal powers...

LONDON: Britain said on Tuesday it would introduce a new law to rein in the power that big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are able to wield to stifle competition in digital markets. The legislation will also bolster protection for consumers by making it easier to opt out of onli

Why Saudi patents still matter for growth and innovation...

JEDDAH: Throughout modern history, revolutionary inventions have shaped societies, transformed economies and improved quality of life. Nowadays, protecting the intellectual property rights to such creations is considered a crucial driver of innovation. And it all starts with a #patent#. In some ind

Iran warns against UCMs humanitarian repercussions...

TEHRAN #Iran#ian Ambassador to the #UN# Saeed Iravani on Monday criticized unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) as a worrying illustration of destructive activities that violate the #UN# Charter, saying such unlawful actions have significant humanitarian repercussions. In a speech to an open #UN# Securit


American cinema and the country itself are violent, cinema expert says...

TEHRAN � Noting that American cinema is certainly entangled with gun violence, a cinema expert believes America itself is suffering from violence too. “American cinema is violent, sure, but America itself, it seems to me, is violence,” Anthony Ballas, an American cinema e

Runaway growth of AI chatbots conjures up a future split between utopia and dystopia...

DUBAI: It was way back in the late 1980s that I first encountered the expressions “artificial intelligence,” “pattern recognition” and “image processing.” I was completing the final semester of my undergrad college studies, while also writing up my last story for

Baku should heed the Ukraine lesson...

TEHRAN � Tensions between #Iran# and the Republic of Azerbaijan have turned into a daily occurrence as a result of Baku’s “emotional and non constructive” moves. Over the last few weeks, Azerbaijani authorities have initiated a concerted campaign against #Iran# at the m

Iran hopes strategic pact with Russia finalized ‘in a month’...

TEHRAN � #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Wednesday expressed hope that the long term strategic cooperation agreement between Tehran and #Moscow# will be finalized in “less than a month.” “Reviews on the long term strategic cooperation agreement be

Iran insists it principally views political solution as remedy to Yemen crisis...

TEHRAN � In view of Tehran’s “strategic principled policies” there is a “political solution” to the Yemen crisis, #Iran#’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said #Iran# insists on a full lifting of blockade on

Oil, espionage rallying allies? Trips of Putin’s men to Cuba and Venezuela attract attention ...

The recent #visit#s of high profile #Russia#n officials to #Cuba# and #Venezuela#, all in less than a week, have fueled scrutiny and speculation about #Russia#’s interests in the region amid the war it launched on #Ukraine#. Vladimir #Putin#’s top security adviser and close ally, Gen. Nikolai Patrushe

Iran hopes strategic pact with Russia finalized ‘in a month’...

TEHRAN � #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Wednesday expressed hope that the long term strategic cooperation agreement between Tehran and #Moscow# will be finalized in “less than a month.” “Reviews on the long term strategic cooperation agreement be

Linguist says ChatGPT has invalidated Chomsky's ‘innate principles of language’...

Artificial intelligence (#AI#) has been a subject of fascination and concern for many years. In previous interviews with renowned linguists Noam Chomsky and Ray Jackendoff, Tehran Times explored their views on the relationship between language and the mind, and how it relates to the study of #AI#. Today

US has learned nothing from sad chapter of 21st century history: ex Italian diplomat ...

“The U.S. political establishment has learned #nothing# from this sad chapter of 21st century history,” says Marco Carnelos who served as #Italy#’s special envoy for Syria and ambassador to #Iraq#. By invading #Iraq# in 2003, Carnelos says, the U.S. had ambitions to reshape the Middle E

Lavrov lays into West’s latest Nord Stream explanation...

MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. #Russia#n Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday called attempts by Western media to shift the #blame# for the blasts on the Nord Stream gas pipelines on to a Ukrainian oligarch shameful. The attempts to explain, with reference to some Western intel services, that a cert

Respect for ‘human rights’ is our core value, Abdollahian tells Human Rights Council...

TEHRAN � #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Monday that “for us, respect for ‘human rights and dignity’ is a core value that is deeply rooted in our national tradition and profoundly embedded in our religious beliefs,” IRNA reported. The