ISTANBUL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday appointed new deputy heads and advisers to the presidential office, the latest in a series of appointments in a mass government reshuffle. Two decrees were published on the website of Ukraine’s presidential office, appointing former Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and Viktor Mykyta,
ISTANBUL: Russia on Sunday claimed it took control of a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow continues its offensive along multiple fronts. A statement by the Defense Ministry said its forces took control of the city of Novohrodivka, located about 14 kilometers (8.6 miles) southeast of the city
ISTANBUL: The Palestinian territories have seen an 85% drop in illiteracy rates in the last two decades, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday. In a statement marking World Literacy Day, the bureau said the illiteracy rate stood at 2.1% among Palestinians 15 and older in 2023, down
ANKARA: Chinese scientists plan to send bricks made from simulated lunar soil into space to evaluate if they can be used to build a research base on the moon, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday. The sample bricks will be sent to see how they hold up in
ISTANBUL: Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to target those who “cheated” in the 2020 presidential election if he wins the race to the White House in November. Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in 2020, claims the vote was fraudulent and rigged against him. ‘The 2024 Election,
ANKARA: At least 33 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 40,972, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday. A ministry statement added that some 94,761 other people have been injured in the
