ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday received President of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani at the Presidential Complex in Ankara and discussed regional and global developments. During the meeting, Erdogan underlined “the necessity of steadfast collaboration in these challenging times” to eliminate the terrorist threat

Children were kept in school near Savona Wednesday amid widespread flooding caused by torrential rains. Due to the heavy rains in the area, flooding of streets and basements has been reported in the municipalities of Calice Ligure and Celle Ligure, where the mayor Marco Beltrame amid a yellow alert for

Medical school admission tests have been scrapped as part of a draft reform presented Wednesday to the Senate granting free access to the first semester after which only students who have completed all tests will be ranked nationally with top students allowed to continue their studies. The cabinet hopes to

Cyprus President, Nikos Christodoulides, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, have agreed to have an informal meeting in a broader format in the near future, under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to discuss the way forward and to meet in Cyprus to explore the possibility of opening

ISTANBUL: The World Cooperation Industries (WCI) Forum started on Wednesday in Istanbul, with some 1,500 African businesspeople set to meet with representatives of Turkish small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) through Thursday. Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said at the opening of the forum that since the adoption of the Strategy

Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said Wednesday Italy was in favour of increasing the number of UNIFIL soldiers in Lebanon but only if Israel withdraws. Asked about a possible increase in the UNIFIL contingent, Crosetto told Rai TV: “If it can save from war, why not? Now there are ten thousand