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LONDON, UK: Turkey and Israel will explore joint energy drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday told journalists who accompanied him to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--It’s official. The Biden administration agrees with the Trump administration that almost everything that happens in world affairs can be explained by two interlocking zero-sum contests. One is geopolitical, as in ‘great power rivalry.’  The other is ideological, as in ‘democracy vs. authoritarianism.’

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--A year ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 150 media partners around the globe began rolling out the Pandora Papers, a world-rocking exposé that’s been called “a money bomb with political ripples”, and “a financial earthquake”.

NEW YORK, U.S.--While the world has been distracted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Turkey, a member of the NATO alliance, has been busy harassing another NATO member, its Western neighbor, Greece.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decided to sacrifice Turkish efforts to seek justice for the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, apparently in hopes of attracting Saudi financial support and investment for Turkey’s inflation-ravaged economy.

NEW YORK, U.S.--Aggression by Turkey's military appears to be on the rise in Cyprus -- in areas it does not yet occupy. According to the Cypriot media, on February 8, Turkish soldiers approached Greek Cypriot farmers working in fields near the village of Denia in the United Nations "Buffer Zone," and threatened to kill them if they did not leave.

NEW YORK, U.S.--Once again U.S. President Joe Biden's strategic miscalculation is coming with a strategic cost: appeasing NATO's pro-Putin, part-time ally Turkey and jeopardizing Europe's energy security.

NEW YORK, U.S.--The Biden administration has abruptly withdrawn American support for the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) pipeline, a project aimed at shipping natural gas from Israel to European markets. The White House said the project was antithetical to its "climate goals."

JERUSALEM, Israel--The US no longer supports the proposed EastMed natural-gas pipeline from Israel to Europe, the Biden administration has informed Israel, Greece and Cyprus in recent weeks.

NICOSIA, Cyprus--The focus of the mission of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General in Cyprus is to build trust and respect between the two communities in divided Cyprus.

NICOSIA, Cyprus--Minister of  Health Michael Hadjipantela said on Saturday that Deltacron, a new variant of COVID-19 found in Cyprus, was not something to worry about.