Su-34 fighter-bomber crashes in Russian Bryansk Region

13.05.2023 [18:28]
A Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed in the Bryansk Region on Saturday, a source in the emergency services told TASS. "A Su-34 has crashed not far from the Ukrainian border. The fate of those on board is being established," the source said, adding that the circumstances of the crash were being established ...

Helicopter crashes in Russian Bryansk Region

13.05.2023 [17:31]
A helicopter has caught on fire and crashed in the Bryansk Region, a source in the emergency services told TASS. "A helicopter has crashed in the city of Klintsy, according to preliminary data due to an inflamed engine," the source said ...

G7 nations’ commitment of economic support for Ukraine totals $44 bln in 2023-2024

13.05.2023 [16:10]
G7 countries’ commitment of budget and economic support for Ukraine for 2023 and early 2024 amounts to $44 bln, according to a joint statement adopted on Saturday following the meeting of member states’ finance ministers and central bank governors in the Japanese city of Niigata ...

Death toll in Kenya starvation cult climbs to 179

13.05.2023 [13:08]
Kenya police on Friday found 29 more bodies in Shakahola Forest, the highest daily count since exhumations began last month, in the probe into cult leader Paul Mackenzie, according to The EastAfrican ...

Data of 237,000 US government employees breached

13.05.2023 [11:02]
The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday, according to Reuters ...

US could start buying oil for reserve after June sale, energy secretary says

12.05.2023 [18:11]
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers on Thursday her department could start repurchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after completing a congressionally mandated sale next month ...

Zelensky may travel to Italy, meet with Prime Minister, Pope

12.05.2023 [12:09]
President Volodymyr Zelensky may travel to Italy on May 13 and meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis, Ansa news agency reported. The details of the trip are still being finalized ...

Trump says he wants people ‘to stop dying’ but won’t say whether he wants Russia or Ukraine to win war

11.05.2023 [19:55]
Former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in Russia’s war against Ukraine, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying.” “I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians ...

FAO warns of potentially devastating Moroccan Locust outbreak in Afghanistan’s wheat basket

11.05.2023 [16:58]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned of a large-scale outbreak of the Moroccan Locust across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan, the country's wheat basket, according to the official website of FAO ...

South Korea moves to end all COVID-19 restrictions

11.05.2023 [16:53]
South Korea on Thursday announced an end to almost all restrictions imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Anadolu Agency. “I am pleased that our people will reclaim their everyday lives after three years and four months,” President Yoon Suk Yeol said, declaring an end to the pandemic restrictions ...

CNN Exclusive: Britain has delivered long-range ‘Storm Shadow’ cruise missiles to Ukraine ahead of expected counteroffensive, sources say

11.05.2023 [16:52]
The United Kingdom has supplied Ukraine with multiple Storm Shadow cruise missiles, giving Ukrainian forces a new long-range strike capability in advance of a highly anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, multiple senior Western officials told CNN ...

Czech Republic to hand over two KUB air defense systems to Ukraine

11.05.2023 [12:56]
The Czech Republic will provide Ukraine with two KUB air defense systems and missiles , Ukrinform reports. The President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel said this in a radio interview with Czech Radio. "Now two more KUB air defense systems with a rather large number of missiles are being delivered ...

China launches new cargo mission to space station

11.05.2023 [11:18]
China launched a new cargo mission on Wednesday night to transport supplies to its orbiting Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency, Xinhua reported ...

Biden: Debt meeting ‘productive,’ default ‘not an option’

10.05.2023 [18:56]
President Joe Biden and congressional leaders confronted each other on the debt limit impasse Tuesday, ending their meeting with no breakthrough but agreeing to meet again this week to try to avert the looming risk of an unprecedented government default, AP reported ...

Sudan facing humanitarian catastrophe, UN warns

10.05.2023 [15:40]
The people of Sudan are facing a humanitarian catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, after fighting between rival military forces broke out in April 2023. The dire conditions include food, water and fuel shortages, as well as limited access to transport ...

Lavrov extends best wishes to Türkiye for successful election on May 14

10.05.2023 [15:31]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday extended best wishes to Türkiye for successful presidential and parliamentary elections slated for May 14, and expressed confidence that they would be fair and transparent, according to TASS ...

Toyota logs 1st net profit fall in 4 yrs on higher material costs

10.05.2023 [12:01]
Toyota Motor Corp said Wednesday its net profit fell 14.0 percent in fiscal 2022 from the previous year to 2.45 trillion yen ($18 billion), the first decline in four years due to rising material costs, according to Kyodo News. Operating profit for the year ended March slid 9.0 percent to 2.73 trillion yen ...

60 dead, 231 injured from ethnic clashes in India's Manipur: official

09.05.2023 [11:22]
Ethnic clashes in India's northeastern state of Manipur have claimed about 60 lives, according to a senior official, according to Xinhua. Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh told media that a high-level inquiry will be conducted into the violence to identify people responsible for the violence. He put the death ...

China's foreign trade up 5.8 pct in first four months

09.05.2023 [09:19]
China's total imports and exports expanded 5.8 percent year on year to 13.32 trillion yuan in the first four months of 2023, official data showed Tuesday, according to Xinhua. Exports grew 10.6 percent year on year while imports rose 0.02 percent in the first four months, it added ...