ISTANBUL: China launched a new Earth observation satellite Wednesday from northwest China, according to state news agency Xinhua. The Gaofen-12 05 satellite was sent into space at 7.45 am Beijing time (2345GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite, carried by a Long March-4C rocket, entered its planned
Italian publisher Mondadori said Wednesday that Pope Francis’s autobiography ‘Spera’ (Hope) will come out in the world’s major languages in over 80 countries in January 2025 for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee. It is set to be the first ever autobiography written by a pontiff. Mondadori, which is managing the book’s
Commissioner Kyriakides participates in Ukraine-EU healthcare conference Today, Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, will address via video message a conference on Ukraine-EU integration in the healthcare sector. Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and Viktor Liashko, Minister of Health, will participate
ISTANBUL: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday met in the capital Ankara with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. No further information was given about the meeting. Earlier, Aboul Gheit was also received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in
ISTANBUL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday presented his ‘victory plan,’ a blueprint aimed at ending the war with Russia that continues since February 2022, to the parliament. Speaking at the Verkhovna Rada in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy outlined five points that formulate the plan, the first of which is
Areported 2,897 doctors were attacked in 2023, nearly eight every day, according to a survey carried out by the National federation of doctors and dentists guilds (Fnomceo) published on Wednesday. The survey was based on a questionnaire sent by Fnomceo to its 480,000 members. The figure was presented by the
