TEHRAN -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday discussed the expansion of economic cooperation, particularly in the energy and transportation sectors.
In a phone call on Wednesday evening, Raisi said the constant expansion of economic cooperation between Tehran and Moscow, especially in the transportation and energy sectors, will help establish useful relations between the two nations and regional countries, according to the website of the Iranian president's office. (Iran-Russia-Economic Cooperation)
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JERUSALEM -- A knife-wielding Palestinian man stabbed and wounded an Israeli settler before being shot and killed at a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Israeli authorities said.
The Palestinian, a resident of ad-Dhahiriya city near the flashpoint city of Hebron, stabbed a 30-year-old Israeli man in the southern West Bank, Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service said in a statement. The Israeli casualty sustained moderate wounds and was taken to a hospital, the rescue service said. (Israel-Palestinian-Stab Attack)
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JERUSALEM -- Turkish Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar presented his credentials to Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday, marking the latest step in rebuilding relations between the two countries after years of acrimony.
In a statement issued on his behalf, Herzog underscored the importance of relations between Israel and Türkiye. "Today we complete another important step, reaching another milestone in the strengthening of our relations and deepening of the friendship between Türkiye and Israel," Herzog said after the ceremony. (Israel-Türkiye-Ties)
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ANKARA -- Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Türkiye on Wednesday and agreed on a new exchange of more than 40 prisoners, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said.
"We exchanged the lists of some military prisoners. We have decided to swap more than 40 prisoners," the semi-official Anadolu Agency quoted Moskalkova as saying after a meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets on the sidelines of an international ombudsman conference in Türkiye's capital Ankara. (Türkiye-Ukraine-Russia-Prisoner Swap)
