The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has requested further information of 10 designated European commissioners, including Italian candidate Raffaele Fitto, well-informed parliamentary sources said Thursday.
Fitto has been aske…
The engine of a Ryanair plane that was preparing to take off from the Puglia airport of Brindisi for Turin caught fire on Thursday morning and the 184 passengers and crew members had to be evacuated down the emergency slides.
Nobody was injured.
Th…
UK Defence Secretary John Healy and Cypriot Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas discussed ways to deepen UK-Cyprus bilateral relations, on Wednesday, during Heal’s second visit to Cyprus since the new UK Government took office in July. This deepening coo…
ANKARA: Trkiye and North Macedonia share some common views on regional and global issues, Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus said on Thursday.
It is significant that Afrim Gashi chose to visit Trkiye first after taking office, demonstrating t…
ANKARA: A new US study found that deaths caused by health complications in regions affected by tropical storms and hurricanes far exceed the direct fatalities from these natural disasters.
Published in the journal Nature, the research shows that hurr…
ISTANBUL: Russia said on Thursday that it sent 33 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon, where Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the capital Beirut overnight.
A special Il-76 aircraft carried 33 tons of humanitarian aid as directed by Preside…
ISTANBUL: Five Chinese nationals have been charged with making false statements, conspiracy and destroying evidence in connection with photographing joint US-Taiwan military exercises, according to a US court document.
The Chinese nationals, who were…
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday that a special charter flight was being organized for the return of about 180 Italians from Beirut.
With a situation on the ground that is “particularly complex” in Lebanon, “we are wo…