A trailblazing judge with particular expertise in environmental law and the constitution will become Greece's first female president on Wednesday, according to AFP. The candidacy of Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou has already won cross-party support and been welcomed by some commentators as ...

Luis Arce, credited with steering Bolivia through years of economic growth, will be a presidential candidate in May elections, Bolivia’s exiled former leader Evo Morales said on Sunday, according to AFP. Bolivians will choose a new president May 3, more than six months after a disputed ...

A fourth person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following the outbreak of a new coronavirus, health authorities said on Tuesday, according to China Daily. The 89-year-old man developed symptoms on Jan 13 and was admitted to hospital five days later after he experienced severe ...

Heavy snowfall is delaying Nepalese rescue workers' efforts to save four South Korean school teachers who went missing while trekking a circuit route of Annapurna in the Himalayas, officials here said Sunday, according to Yonhap News Agency. The four South Koreans who went missing in an avalanche during a Annapurna Base Camp trek Friday ...

Oil supplies from Iraq, the Middle East’s second-biggest producer, are “potentially vulnerable” amid rising political risks in the country and the broader region, the International Energy Agency warned, according to Bloomberg. Crude prices briefly soared to a three-month high above $70 a barrel last week as tensions between the ...

All staff members of Anadolu Agency released after detention in Egypt, says agency head. On Tuesday evening, Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of Anadolu Agency and detained four employees,. Turkey and the international community condemned the raid and called for the immediate release ...

The flights of Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport were cancelled on Sunday because of heavy snowfall in the capital of Iran, semi-official Mehr news agency reported. "The horizontal view of the runway has been reduced to 500 meters at the present time," Mehrabad Aviation ...

Iran will send the black boxes of the Ukrainian passenger plane that its military shot down earlier this month to Ukraine, Tasnim news agency reported. The Iranian authorities are also prepared for experts from France, Canada and the United States to examine the data from the ...

Chinese authorities on Sunday announced 17 new cases of a deadly virus that has infected more than 60 people in the central city of Wuhan, according to DW. At least three of those patients are in critical condition, said the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission. Two people ...

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Payzawat County of Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 00:05 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), Xinhua reports ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Turkey next week to discuss bilateral relations and international issues, her spokesman said Friday, according to Anadolu Agency. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Steffen Seibert said Merkel would ...

Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk has submitted a letter of resignation, Ukrinform reports. "I took up the post to implement the program of the President. For me, he is a paragon of honesty and integrity. However, to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday for a state visit to Myanmar, according to chinadaily.com.cn. It is Xi's first overseas trip this year, and the first visit to the Asian neighbor by a Chinese president after an interval of 19 ...

China's economy grew 6.1 percent year-on-year in 2019, within the government's annual target of 6 to 6.5 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday, according to chinadaily.com.cn. The reading was lower than the 6.6-percent growth registered in 2018 ...

Japanese car giant Toyota announced Thursday that it will invest $ 394 million (about 353 million euros) in Joby Aviation, a California start-up that develops an electric aircraft for mobility services on demand in urban areas, according to AFP. This investment, made within the framework of a fundraising of 590 million dollars by Joby Aviation ...

A broadband communication satellite, developed by a Beijing-based company, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:02 a.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), Xinhua reported ...

Dmitry Medvedev as Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council will remain Chairman of the United Russia political party, which he led during his tenure as Russian Prime Minister, Secretary of the party’s General Council Andrei Turchak told reporters after ...

The Russian government has resigned, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced, TASS reports. President Vladimir Putin thanked Dmitry Medvedev’s government for its work. "For my part, I also want to thank you for everything that was done at this stage of our joint work, I want to express satisfaction with ...

Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Wednesday he will take paternity leave after the birth of his first child scheduled for later this month in what is believed to be an unprecedented move by a Cabinet member, according to Kyodo news ...