ISTANBUL: Rwanda reported its first deaths from an outbreak of Marburg virus as eight people died from the virus, the Health Ministry announced on late Sunday. As of Sept. 29, 26 virus cases have been registered in the East African nation, the ministry said on X. ‘People can continue with
ISTANBUL: The US announced Sunday it has increased its military presence in the Middle East, enhancing air support and troop readiness as tensions in the region escalate. “We will further reinforce our defensive air-support capabilities in the coming days,” said Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder in a statement. The
ISTANBUL: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will travel to Armenia on Tuesday to attend the third edition of the Eurasian Economic Forum in the capital Yerevan. A statement by the Russian government late Sunday said that Mishustin will travel to Yerevan to take part in the forum’s plenary session, as
ISTANBUL: US President Joe Biden has approved $567 million in defense support for Taiwan, a White House statement said late Sunday. The statement said that Biden approved the drawdown of up to $567 million in ‘defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, to
ISTANBUL: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. The mission comes as SpaceX pauses its Falcon 9 launches to investigate an upper-stage anomaly that occurred during a flight on Saturday, resulting in an
ISTANBUL: Ukraine on Monday said seven front-line regions in the country have received 600 generators as they continue preparations for the upcoming winter months. A statement by Ukraine’s Reintegration Ministry said that it handed over the generators to the country’s Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions. It
