President Klaus Iohannis has sharply criticized plans announced by the head of Romania’s ruling party to move the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Iohannis had “not been consulted or informed over this process,” his office said in an April 20 statement. Liviu Dragnea, the head of the ruling Social Democratic Party […]

(ANKARA) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caught Turkey off guard on Wednesday by calling early elections for June, in a move that could cement his grip on power a year ahead of schedule. Erdogan announced that parliamentary and presidential elections, originally scheduled for November 2019 will now be held June 24, meaning that a new […]

Aries Daily Horoscope for Today 19 April 2018: Aries on April 19th will experience easiness and complete peace of mind. At work, no one and nothing will distract you from carrying out your current assignments. Working without strain and without effort, you are almost not tired, and optimistic enough about this evening. You want to […]

Russia blocking access to Telegram  after the messaging app refused to give it access to encrypted messages has picked up an unintended casualty: we’re now up to over 15 million IP addresses from Amazon and Google getting shut down by the regulators in the process, taking various other (non-Telegram) services down with it. Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov earlier today said that […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 2:05 a.m. Syrian state-run television says Syria’s air defenses have confronted a new “aggression,” shooting down missiles over the area of Homs in the country’s center. It did not elaborate or say who carried out the airstrikes early Tuesday. The Syrian Central Media […]

DAMASCUS/THE HAGUE  – The United States accused Russia on Monday of blocking international inspectors from reaching the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria and said Russians or Syrians may have tampered with evidence on the ground. Moscow denied the charge and blamed delays on retaliatory U.S.-led missile strikes on Syria at the […]

(NEW YORK) — It was supposed to be unsinkable. The RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that attracted some of the richest people in the world to sail on it. On its maiden voyage, the ship left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, with more than 2,200 people aboard on its way to New York […]

The German federal government would politically support a possible attack on Syria, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) made clear in recent days. At a press conference Thursday with visiting Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen in Berlin, Merkel said: “It is right to show a common line here without Germany […]

‘The event created an atmosphere of peace and bridged international divides,’ Yunus Emre Institute’s US director says The US branch of Turkey’s Yunus Emre Institute in collaboration with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) organized an event introducing Turkish cuisine to American students in the US capital Thursday. The students had an opportunity to taste […]

A court in Moscow has approved a request from the Russian media regulator to block the Telegram messaging app immediately. The media regulator sought to block the app because the firm had refused to hand over encryption keys used to scramble messages. Security officials say they need to monitor potential terrorists. But the company said […]