8 killed, 1 injured after memorial arch collapses in N China

04.07.2022 [10:41]
Eight people were killed and one was injured after a memorial arch collapsed on Sunday in a village in northern China's Hebei Province, according to CGTN. The 12-meter structure collapsed amid heavy rain and high winds, burying nine people who were taking shelter under it ...

3 killed, several injured in Copenhagen mall shooting

04.07.2022 [01:20]
Three people were killed and several others injured in a mall shooting in Copenhagen, Denmark, police said Monday, according to Anadolu Agency. In a news briefing, police chief Soren Thomassen said the attacker was a 22-year-old Danish male who had a history ...

Tokyo marks record 9th day of temperatures above 35 C

03.07.2022 [13:26]
Tokyo marked a record ninth straight day of temperatures above 35 C on Sunday as high pressure systems covering the Japanese archipelago kept the heat wave going, the weather agency said, according to Kyodo News. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the mercury hit 35.3 degrees ...

Dozens missing in shipwreck during South China Sea typhoon

02.07.2022 [19:41]
More than two dozen crew members are unaccounted for after their ship broke into two during a typhoon in the South China Sea on Saturday, with rescuers scrambling to find them, officials say, according to The Guardian. An engineering vessel that was 160 nautical miles southwest of Hong Kong ...

Turkiye, Armenia agree to allow border crossing for visiting 3rd country citizens

02.07.2022 [16:47]
Turkish and Armenian officials have agreed to open the land border for third country citizens visiting both countries as soon as possible, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday, according to Anadolu Agency. Envoys for the normalization process between Ankara and Yerevan “agreed to enable the crossing ...

Libya protesters storm parliament building in Tobruk

02.07.2022 [14:55]
Protesters stormed Libya’s parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk, demonstrating against deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock, according to Aljazeera. Several television channels reported on Friday ...

5 dead, 19 injured in 6.1, 6.3 quakes near Hormuz Strait

02.07.2022 [10:30]
The governor-general of Hormozgan Province said on Saturday that in the two 6.1 and 6.3 magnitude earthquakes in the village of Sayeh Khosh of Bandar Khamir in southern Iran, five people were killed and 19 more were injured, according to IRNA ...

Flights canceled as Paris airport workers strike over pay, benefits

01.07.2022 [20:06]
A strike at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport entered its second day on Friday, causing flight cancellations and delays, French news outlet France24 reported. However, Orly airport in the city's south is unaffected, according ...

Nearly 80 Russian planes detained abroad

01.07.2022 [19:36]
Seventy-seven Russian planes have been detained abroad, Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said on Friday, according to TASS. "As of today, seventy-seven aircraft [stay detained abroad]. We have managed to return one plane. We are struggling for each plane," he said, adding that some of them were detained at the request of leasing companies ...

New Zealand secures major FTA deal with EU

01.07.2022 [17:16]
New Zealand and the European Union have concluded negotiations on a major free trade agreement (FTA), which covers market access into 27 European countries and removes duties on the majority of products New Zealand exports, according to Xinhua ...

6.0-magnitude earthquake rattles northern Philippines

01.07.2022 [14:10]
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 rattled Cagayan province in the northern Philippines before dawn on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said, according to Xinhua. The institute said the quake, which occurred at 2:40 a.m. local time, hit at ...

Yair Lapid becomes interim Israel’s prime minister ahead of fifth election in three years

01.07.2022 [13:13]
Yair Lapid has become Israel's interim prime minister after the country's parliament voted on Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering the country's fifth election in just over three years, according to Euronews. The foreign minister and veteran centrist party leader took over at ...

Japan, US conduct joint exercise after N.Korean missile launches

01.07.2022 [10:40]
Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the US military have held a joint drill to respond to a ballistic missile launch, according to NHK World-Japan. The Japanese Defense Ministry says the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Ashigara, which is equipped with ...

Russia withdraws from Ukraine`s Snake Island in Black Sea

30.06.2022 [19:16]
Russia’s defense ministry says its forces have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Snake Island – an announcement hailed by the Ukrainian army as a victory, according to Aljazeera. Snake Island is a tiny but strategically located Ukrainian islet in the Black Sea that was taken by Russia ...

Türkiye reports 1st case of monkeypox

30.06.2022 [15:30]
Türkiye on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of monkeypox virus, according to Anadolu Agency. “Monkeypox was detected in one of our patients. The patient is 37 years old, and has an immune deficiency,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter ...

Marcos Jr. sworn-in as 17th Philippine president

30.06.2022 [12:50]
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of a former dictator, was sworn-in as the 17th president of Philippines on Thursday, according to Anadolu Agency. Known as “Bongbong,” the 64-year-old won a landslide victory in last month’s presidential election. He took the ...

Turkish, US president meet at NATO summit in Madrid

30.06.2022 [10:18]
Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid on Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency. The meeting lasted nearly one hour ...

NATO officially invites Finland, Sweden to become members of alliance

29.06.2022 [19:30]
NATO on Wednesday officially invited Finland and Sweden to become members of the alliance, according to Anadolu Agency. The announcement came as part of the Madrid summit declaration following the meeting of NATO heads of state and government ...

Biden to meet Erdogan at NATO summit

29.06.2022 [18:50]
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at this week's NATO summit in Madrid where the alliance will discuss the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday ...