Salome Zurabishvili has won the runoff presidential election in Georgia with 59.52% of votes, while Grigol Vashadze secured 40.48% of votes, the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) reported on Thursday, according to TASS ...

The 11th round of Syria peace talks in the Astana format concluded on Thursday with a decision to step up joint efforts to prevent violations of the cease-fire in Idlib, Anadolu Agency reported ...

Chef Jose Andres has been nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with disaster relief through his non-profit organization World Central Kitchen, accordıng to TIME.com. The Spanish-born chef, restaurateur, author, and humanitarian founded World Central Kitchen in 2010 and ...

The UAE is a land of innovations and setting benchmark in the world, according to Khaleej Times. After Hyperloop and driverless flying cars, now there is another futuristic but fanciful mode of transport for residents to look forward to an underwater rail network.In near future, residents might be able ...

A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou City, north China's Hebei Province, has killed 22 and injured 22 others early Wednesday morning, local authorities said, Xinhua reported. ...

A wanted PKK terrorist with a large bounty on his head was "neutralized" in eastern Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorist in question either surrendered ...

Ankara does not believe that those who murdered Jamal Khashoggi acted alone, Turkey’s foreign minister told a German daily Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. In an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung, Mevlut Cavusoglu assessed Khashoggi’s killing and relations between Turkey and the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing Tuesday for state visits to Spain, Argentina, Panama and Portugal, and the 13th Group of 20 (G20) summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Xinhua reported. Xi was invited to pay the visits by Spanish King Felipe VI, Argentine President ...

Moscow hosted the wedding of the king of Malaysia Muhammad V of Kelantan the Sultan and the winner of the title “Miss Moscow” in 2015 Oksana Vojvodina, the Islam News agency reported ...

Back in September, 200 music fans gathered at the Bunkhouse Saloon in downtown Las Vegas for a private live concert with a unique twist: several of the fans were deaf, according to Arstechnica.com ...

A Chinese military airplane entered South Korea's air defense identification zone (KADIZ) without notice three times on Monday, less than a month after the last such reported intrusion, Seoul's military authorities said, according to Yonhap News Agency ...

At least 22 Afghan security forces were killed and five wounded in restive Farah province bordering Iran, an official confirmed on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. Shah Mehmood, deputy chairman for the provincial council, told Anadolu Agency a ...

Four soldiers martyred, one other wounded when a military training helicopter crashed in Istanbul on Monday, according to the officials, Anadolu Agency reported. The helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district ...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has joined Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to visit Fukushima, the region devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, according to insidethegames.biz. ...

Two people were killed and 24 others were injured in a machinery plant explosion in northeast China's Jilin Province Friday night, local authorities said Saturday morning, Xinhua reported. The accident occurred at around 11:40 p.m. Friday in Sanhe Township ...

The jap part of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists merely assumed that beneath that chilly mass there was nothing greater than a “frozen tectonic block,” a considerably homogeneous mass that distinguished it from the blended up geologies of different continents, according to lightlynews.com ...

Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris on Saturday as thousands gathered in the capital and staged road blockades across France to vent anger against rising fuel taxes and Emmanuel Macron’s presidency, according to AP ...

Saudi women are now able to drive family taxis as the rules governing the operation have been activated, the Public Transport Authority (PTA) announced on Wednesday, according to Gulf Insider. Licenses for family taxis are issued to only registered companies; not individuals ...