Category: World

Sat 29 Apr 2023: Erdogan arrived in the port city of Izmir to a sea of flags, and a large crowd that had been waiting hours under a hot sun. It was a strong turnout in an opposition stronghold. The polls – for the presidency and parliament – will be his toughest challenge yet, after […]

Sat 29 Apr 2023: More than 130,000 civil servants across the UK walked out on Friday over an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions, redundancy terms, and job security. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members’ all-out strike affected 132 departments and public bodies ranging from the British Museum to the Cabinet Office. The British Museum […]

Sat 29 Apr 2023: Türkiye has selected Alper Gezeravcı and Tuva Cihangir Atasever as the country’s first space travelers to be sent into space in the last quarter of this year, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Saturday. Speaking at the country’s major technology event TEKNOFEST, he said Gezeravci, a pilot in the Turkish Air Force, will […]

Sat 29 Apr 2023: Following a suspected drone attack on a fuel storage tank, a massive fire broke out in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. The fire was given the highest rating in terms of how difficult it will be to extinguish, according to Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor, on Telegram on Saturday. The […]

Sat 29 Apr 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree formally increasing the maximum sentence for treason to life in jail, part of a drive to suppress dissent since the start of the war in Ukraine. The decree was posted on the Kremlin website. Lawmakers had already voted to boost the longest […]

Fri 28 Apr 2023: An apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Uman was been hit during a series of early morning airstrikes across the country on Friday, killing at least 20 people, according to Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Ministry. The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukraine managed to shoot down 21 […]