Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ships are in Singapore — where a major meeting of defense ministers is underway — as the last stop of a two-month deployment through the Indo-Pacific region, Kyodo news agency reported ...

The death toll from an explosion and shooting at a college in the Crimean city of Kerch has reached 21, according to TASS. "A girl has died. The death toll has thus climbed to 21," the source said. ...

A senior terrorist of the PKK was killed on Wednesday in an operation carried out by security forces in southeastern Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported. ...

SoftBank Group Corp.`s “Pepper” humanoid robot testified on Tuesday at the Education Committee of Britain’s House of Commons, according to the www.japantimes.co.jp. It was the first time in the long history of the British Parliament ...

Eleven Saudi officials on Wednesday arrived at the Saudi consul general's residence in Istanbul for investigation on the missing Saudi journalist, according to Anadolu Agency ...

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 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 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 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 ...

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- ...

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 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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...