Iraq investigators blame fatal wedding fire on ignored safety rules

Oct 02, 2023

Cairo [Egypt], October 2: Investigators in Iraq say a fire that killed more than a hundred people at a wedding party earlier this week was...

Top EU diplomat is counting on continued US aid to Ukraine

Oct 02, 2023

Kyiv [Ukraine], October 2: EU foreign policy chief JosepBorrell is counting on the United States to continue security assistance to Ukraine, despite aid for the...

Coalition talks loom after win for former Slovak PM Fico

Oct 02, 2023

Bratislava [Slovakia], October 2: Slovakia's former prime minister Robert Fico and his left-wing nationalist party have won the country's parliamentary elections, in a victory that...

UN mission visits Karabakh, first in 30 years

Oct 02, 2023

Lachin[Azerbaijan], October 2: A United Nations mission visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway...

Erdogan defiant after PKK attack

Oct 02, 2023

Ankara [Turkey], October 2: Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan said Sunday that "terrorists" will never achieve their aims, hours after a blast near the parliament in...

McCarthy vows to survive ouster threat for avoiding shutdown

Oct 02, 2023

Washington [US], October 2: Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy said he expected to survive a threat to his speakership after a hardline critic within...

Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians

Oct 02, 2023

Geneva [Switzerland], October 2: YuryGaravsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country's opposition....

Spain: Nightclub fire kills 13 in Murcia

Oct 02, 2023

Murcia[Spain], October 2: At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia.

Mourners hail dead Russian mercenary Prigozhin as hero of the people

Oct 02, 2023

Moscow [Russia], October 2: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed...