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176 die as Ukrainian plane crashes in Iran

176 die as Ukrainian plane crashes in Iran

-- 2020-01-08 11:08:18

A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, the country’s state television and Ukraine&rsquo...

Putin makes rare visit to Syria, meets Assad

Putin makes rare visit to Syria, meets Assad

Reuters 2020-01-07 20:59:44

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday. This was the Russian leader's second trip to Syria since Moscow intervened decisively o...

Germany to cut troop numbers in Iraq after Soleimani’s killing

Germany to cut troop numbers in Iraq after Soleimani’s killing

-- 2020-01-07 14:08:39

Germany is moving some of its military personnel from Iraq to neighbouring countries over security concerns, the government told lawmakers, days after the killing of a top Iranian military commander i...

UK reduces embassy staff in Iran, Iraq

UK reduces embassy staff in Iran, Iraq

-- 2020-01-07 12:26:52

Britain has reduced staff at its embassies in Tehran and Baghdad to a minimum level due to escalating tensions following the US killing of a top Iranian military leader, Sky News reported on Monday....

Merkel, Putin to discuss Middle East crisis in Moscow

Merkel, Putin to discuss Middle East crisis in Moscow

Reuters 2020-01-06 16:35:27

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Russia on January 11 to discuss the Middle East crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader’s press service gave the informat...

Croatia's former PM Milanovic wins presidential vote

Croatia's former PM Milanovic wins presidential vote

-- 2020-01-06 11:18:51

Croatia's former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, candidate of the top opposition party the Social Democrats, will be the country's next president, the results of the presidential election showed on Su...

British navy to escort UK ships in Strait of Hormuz

British navy to escort UK ships in Strait of Hormuz

REUTERS 2020-01-05 13:13:46

Britain’s navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani inflamed tensions in the reg...

UK royal family releases photo of four generations

UK royal family releases photo of four generations

Reuters 2020-01-04 16:51:44

Buckingham Palace, the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom, has issued a new photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth, her son Prince Charles, her gra...

Greta changes Twitter name to ‘Sharon’ after game show error

Greta changes Twitter name to ‘Sharon’ after game show error

-- 2020-01-04 12:02:33

Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. While appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Hen...

Power suppliers to pay $14m fine for UK outage in Aug

Power suppliers to pay $14m fine for UK outage in Aug

-- 2020-01-03 14:12:41

Britain’s energy regulator said on Friday it had fined electricity suppliers 10.5 million pounds ($13.77 million) for the Aug. 9 blackout in the country that affected one million customers and c...

German SMEs downbeat about economic situation next year

German SMEs downbeat about economic situation next year

Xinhua 2019-12-31 18:38:40

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany are "extremely pessimistic" about the country's overall economic situation in 2020, showed a survey published by the German Association for Small...

British woman found guilty of lying about being gang raped

British woman found guilty of lying about being gang raped

Reuters 2019-12-30 16:29:15

A Cyprus court on Monday found a British woman guilty of lying about being gang raped by Israeli youths six months ago. In a case closely followed by rights groups, a district court in the town of Pa...

Fire at Russia's Novatek oil and gas field kills two

Fire at Russia's Novatek oil and gas field kills two

-- 2019-12-28 15:10:32

Two people have been killed and one injured in a fire in an elevator at Russia’s Novatek northern oil and gas field, news agencies reported on Saturday citing emergency ministry officials. The...

French union activists block oil refineries

French union activists block oil refineries

AP 2019-12-27 19:53:33

French union activists disrupted two of the country’s eight oil refineries Friday as part of nationwide strikes against a higher retirement age that have lasted for 23 days, the longest such wal...

Turkey jails six journalists for supporting failed coup

Turkey jails six journalists for supporting failed coup

AP 2019-12-27 17:50:08

A Turkish court on Friday convicted six journalists and one other employee of an independent newspaper of aiding the network of a US-based cleric who is accused of masterminding the failed coup in 201...

Seven die as migrants’ boat sinks in Turkey’s Lake Van

Seven die as migrants’ boat sinks in Turkey’s Lake Van

-- 2019-12-26 11:38:04

Seven people died and 64 were rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The agency said the boat sank ne...

Pope calls for peace in his Christmas message

Pope calls for peace in his Christmas message

Reuters 2019-12-25 20:09:48

Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the 'darkness in human hearts' that leads to religious persecution, social injustice, armed conflicts and fear of migrant...

Russia to continue to strengthen nuclear forces

Russia to continue to strengthen nuclear forces

Xinhua 2019-12-25 17:46:09

Russia is ready to work on new arms control agreements but in the meantime will continue to strengthen its nuclear forces, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russia will advance its work on the c...

Russia leading world in hypersonic weapons, says Putin

Russia leading world in hypersonic weapons, says Putin

-- 2019-12-24 20:27:38

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia is the only country in the world that has hypersonic weapons. Speaking at a meeting with top military brass, Putin said that for the first ti...

Pilot survives after Russia's newest Su-57 fighter crashes

Pilot survives after Russia's newest Su-57 fighter crashes

Xinhua 2019-12-24 18:00:33

The pilot of Russia's newest Su-57 fighter survived after the aircraft crashed during a test flight Tuesday in the far eastern Khabarovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "The ejection syst...

Ankara, Moscow to discuss Syrian migrants, Libya conflict

Ankara, Moscow to discuss Syrian migrants, Libya conflict

Reuters 2019-12-23 16:23:58

A Turkish delegation will travel to Moscow on Monday to discuss Syria and Libya, areas where the nations have some opposing views, for talks that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said would determine...

BBC could limit journalists’ use of Twitter

BBC could limit journalists’ use of Twitter

-- 2019-12-22 17:04:36

The BBC is considering restricting its journalists’ use of Twitter, following the waves of online criticism it received from internet users over its coverage during the election campaign in UK,...

Russia gas export pipeline in jeopardy as Trump signs sanctions bill

Russia gas export pipeline in jeopardy as Trump signs sanctions bill

Reuters 2019-12-21 16:57:07

Swiss-Dutch company Allseas said it had suspended work on building a major Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline in order to avoid US sanctions contained in legislation signed by President Donald Tru...

Prince Philip, 98, taken to hospital

Prince Philip, 98, taken to hospital

Reuters 2019-12-20 20:24:59

Britain’s Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was taken to hospital on Friday as a precautionary measure for treatment for a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said...

Turkey will retaliate against possible US sanctions: Erdogan

Turkey will retaliate against possible US sanctions: Erdogan

Reuters 2019-12-20 18:03:52

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that Ankara would retaliate against possible US sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline. US Congress has move...

Estonia apologises after minister mocks Finland PM

Estonia apologises after minister mocks Finland PM

-- 2019-12-17 11:24:12

Estonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as "a sales girl". President Kersti Kaljulaid said she was "embarrassed" by the comment...

54,000 people evacuated after WWII bomb found in Italy

54,000 people evacuated after WWII bomb found in Italy

-- 2019-12-16 19:14:01

More than half of the population of the city of Brindisi, southern Italy, were evacuated from their homes on Sunday due to an unexploded World War II bomb, according to authorities. Some 54,000 peopl...

Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus

Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus

-- 2019-12-16 19:11:06

Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus amid tensions over offshore oil and gas exploration, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu...

Sturgeon  mulls another Scottish independence vote

Sturgeon  mulls another Scottish independence vote

-- 2019-12-16 16:56:37

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to “focus on reality” and recognize that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has been given a mandate for a second independence referendum, Scottis...

Germany mulls how to attract skilled labor from outside EU

Germany mulls how to attract skilled labor from outside EU

-- 2019-12-16 15:31:24

Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting top German business and union officials on Monday to discuss how to attract skilled workers from outside the European Union (EU) as the country tries to tackle a sh...