Lithuania will reopen two border crossings with Belarus on Thursday, weeks after shutting them due to weather balloons used for cigarette smuggling that violated its airspace. The Medininkai and Salcininkai crossings, closed since October 27, will resume operations following a decrease in balloon incidents. The reopening will also allow Lithuanian trucks stranded in Belarus to […]
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said corruption “at the highest levels” of Ukraine’s government should prompt the EU to stop all financial payments immediately. Speaking ahead of an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, he criticized the European Commission’s push for an additional €100 billion in support for Kyiv, calling it “insane.” Szijjarto said Ukraine […]
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Tufan Erhürman met Greek Cypriot Administration (GCA) leader Nikos Christodoulides in Nicosia for the first time since taking office in October. The meeting took place at the UN residence inside the buffer zone and was facilitated by UN officials. UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin joined via video […]
Two passenger trains collided between the towns of Zliv and Divcice in the Ceske Budejovice region, about 132 km south of Prague. Authorities reported that 57 people were injured, including three in serious condition. Czech Transport Minister Martin Kupka said emergency teams evacuated passengers and confirmed that early findings suggest one train passed a […]
Fifteen-year-old Turkish national driver Alp Aksoy, set to race with Prema Racing in Formula 4 in 2026, says speed is his strongest asset and names Michael Schumacher as his biggest inspiration. Aksoy, who became a national athlete at age nine, will compete in his first race in Dubai in two weeks after completing nearly […]
NASA has released new images of comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object that entered the Solar System after its discovery in July 2025. The images were captured by 12 NASA telescopes and spacecraft. The closest views came from instruments on Mars, where the comet passed within 30 million kilometers. NASA says its heliophysics missions […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi attended, via video conference, the ceremony installing the reactor vessel for the first power unit of Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is being built by Russia’s state nuclear firm Rosatom under a 2015 agreement. El-Sisi called the project a “new page” in Egypt’s […]
Indonesia’s Semeru Volcano in East Java erupted, sending ash 2,000 meters into the air and triggering pyroclastic flows down its slopes. Authorities raised the alert level to its highest tier and warned residents to stay at least 8 kilometers from the crater. Semeru, standing 3,676 meters high, is among roughly 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, before his official meetings in Ankara. Zelensky laid a wreath at the site and signed the Anıtkabir Special Book alongside his delegation. He is in Türkiye to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and discuss developments related to the Russia-Ukraine War.
An 18-karat gold toilet created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold for $12.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The 101-kilogram piece, titled America, was purchased by an undisclosed collector. Cattelan has said the work satirizes extreme wealth in the United States. A second gold toilet he created in 2016 was stolen from […]