Military plane crash kills 2 pilots in Ukraine

17.10.2018 [16:21]
Two pilots were killed Tuesday when a military plane crashed in Ukraine during an exercise, according to the General Staff, Anadolu Agency reports. The Su-27 air force fighter jet crashed during a training as part of ongoing NATO ...

Ten people killed in Crimean college blast

17.10.2018 [15:39]
Ten people were reported to have been killed in an explosion that rocked a technical college in Kerch, in the east of Crimea, TASS reports. "According to preliminary data, 10 people have died," a spokesperson said ...

President Erdogan, US’ Pompeo meet in Ankara

17.10.2018 [13:28]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday met the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, head of National Intelligence Service (MIT) Hakan Fidan and Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim ...

Armenia’s PM Pashinyan announces his resignation live on Public television

17.10.2018 [10:56]
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stepped down, TASS reports. "I am stepping down. I wish everyone success at elections. We guarantee fair elections," he told Armenia’s Public Television ...

Over 30 Afghan policemen suffer casualties in Samangan clash

17.10.2018 [10:48]
More than 30 Afghan policemen have been killed and wounded in a Taliban attack in northern Samangan province, according to Pajhwok Afghan News. An official, wishing anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed security check-posts in the Zerki area of Dara-i- ...

About 80 weapons detained on Belarus border with Ukraine in 2018

16.10.2018 [21:26]
Belarusian border guards have seized about 80 weapons and 1,200 units of ammunition on the border with Ukraine since the start of 2018, Chairman of Belarus' State Border Committee Anatoly Lappo told the media on 16 October, BelTA has learned. ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer aged 65

16.10.2018 [20:47]
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died from cancer aged 65, his Vulcan Inc. company said in a statement on Monday, according to TASS. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Paul Allen, our founder and noted technologist, philanthropist ...

China launches twin BeiDou-3 satellites

15.10.2018 [23:29]
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province Monday, Xinhua reported. The satellites entered their planned orbit after flying more than three hours, and will work with ...

German police rescue woman held hostage in Cologne railway station

15.10.2018 [21:08]
German police rescued a woman who was held hostage by an armed man at a pharmacy inside Cologne’s main railway station on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. Cologne police said on Twitter the hostage taker was seriously injured in the rescue operation ...

Sharjah unveils first of its kind Smart Government Media Platform at GITEX

15.10.2018 [20:29]
Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi, Chairman of Sharjah Media Council unveiled on Monday the first of its kind Smart Media Platform by the Sharjah Government Media Bureau (SGMB) at the “GITEX Technology Week” in Dubai ...

Bulgaria withdraws from 2019 Eurovision song contest

15.10.2018 [20:21]
Bulgaria will not take part in the next edition of the Eurovision song contest to be held in Tel Aviv in May 2019, the public BNT broadcaster announced Monday, citing financial constraints, France 24 reported ...

26 drown in boat accident in northwest Mali

15.10.2018 [19:57]
Twenty-six people drowned when two boats overturned in a swollen river in northwestern Mali, officials and local residents said, according to the Press Trust of India. "Two canoes carrying 48 people capsized on Saturday at Arnassey in Bourem Inaly district ...

Novatek’s nine-month production up

15.10.2018 [12:59]
Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer Novatekreported a 4.9 percent rise in production for the first nine months of the year, according to Ingworldnews. Novatek’s hydrocarbons production totaled 402.2 million barrels of oil equivalent ...

Turkey: Truck overturns, 19 migrants dead

14.10.2018 [14:41]
At least 19 irregular migrants, including children, died on Sunday and 11 people were injured when a truck carrying them overturned in Turkey’s western province of Izmir, according to Anadolu Agency. Ambulances were dispatched to the scene ...

Trump hails Brunson release as big step in Turkish ties

14.10.2018 [12:38]
Welcoming to the Oval Office a pastor newly freed by a Turkish court, U.S. President Donald Trump hailed the release as turning a new page in Turkish-American ties, Anadolu Agency reported. “This is a tremendous step towards having the kind of relationship which ...

Death toll in Indonesia earthquake reaches 2,091

14.10.2018 [11:00]
The official death toll in the earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 2,091 people, the Detik news portal reported on Sunday citing an official spokesman for the Central Sulawesi province, according to TASS ...

WHO: 200 infected in Ebola outbreak in Congo

13.10.2018 [10:44]
The World Health Organization on Friday announced that a total of 200 people had been infected in a recent Ebola outbreak that hit the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 125 of whom died, EFE news agency reported ...

The G20 calls to resolve trade tensions

12.10.2018 [21:30]
The Fourth G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ended today in Bali, Indonesia, with a press conference chaired by representatives from the Argentine G20 presidency. After two days of working sessions, Nicolas Dujovne, ...

Turkish court releases US pastor Andrew Brunson

12.10.2018 [19:20]
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson to three years and 45 days in prison, but ordered him released from custody, Anadolu Agency reported. The Izmir Heavy Penal Court No.2 ruled Brunson's house arrest and travel ban should be ended, crediting the American pastor for time served ...