Austrian police said Saturday that they rescued three children suffering from severe dehydration who were close to death in a van in Austria, along with 23 other migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Syrian rebels and forces loyal to the country's President Bashar al-Assad have agreed to a new ceasefire to end government bombardment of the town of Zabadani and the rebel siege of two Shia villages.
The Turkish election board confirmed that snap elections, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for earlier this week, will be heard on November 1.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has expressed regret
over the recent incidents on the border with South Korea in which South
Korean soldiers had exploded on North Korean land mines, South Korean
president’s security adviser Kim Kwan-Jin said after negotiations with
Pyongyang’s representatives.
FYROM***
on Friday allowed a limited number of "vulnerable" migrants to enter
the country a day after sealing its border with Greece and leaving
thousands of refugees stuck in no-man's land.
Alexis Tsipras has resigned, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in.
Visits
to Crimea by the Russian leadership are Russia’s internal affair, and
Moscow is perplexed over Ukraine’s demarche in response to such a visit,
the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday slammed alleged "external control" over Ukraine's government as he made his third visit to the Crimean peninsula since Moscow seized the region from Kiev last year.
The death toll from massive explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin
has risen to 104, the country’s official Xinhua news agency said on
Saturday citing local authorities.
The Greek Parliament on Friday ratified the country's third bailout deal since 2010 to secure vital international financing to remain afloat and stay in the euro zone.
Egypt’s continuing heatwave took 21 lives on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 61 in three days, the health minister said.
Greece's marathon negotiations with international lenders to finalize the third Greek bailout
deal in five years were in the final stretch on Monday and "white
smoke" could emerge as soon as Tuesday morning, according to government
sources.
Fifteen more fatalities were confirmed Saturday from a barrage of bombings in Kabul, taking the toll to 51 in the deadliest day in the Afghan capital since the NATO combat mission ended in December.
Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since
the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over
whether its deadly destruction was justified.
Debris found on an Indian Ocean island last week is from MH370, Malaysia's prime minister announced on Thursday, confirming for the first time that the plane which mysteriously disappeared 17 months ago had crashed.
Monsoon rains have claimed the lives of hundreds across Asia,
authorities said Monday, as rescue workers scrambled to reach remote
areas of India, Pakistan and Myanmar in the wake of flash floods and
landslides.
Kurdish rebels of the PKK should move out of Iraqi Kurdistan to
prevent Turkish air strikes against them from causing civilian
casualties, the region’s leadership said on Saturday.
