While claiming that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is, President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said that the country has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.   NATO member Turkey faced criticism in the earlier stages of the Syrian war for failing to stop...

Thailand will close the country's largest gold mine Chatree by the end of 2016. The announced reason is the damage to the environment and health of workers – it outweighs the economic benefit from the field’s further development. The field, and processing plant located there are operated by Akara...

The faultlines in the company's business model, which relies heavily on income from the country's lightly regulated health sector was exposed by the death of a student following experimental cancer treatment he found through China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc.   Baidu, which controls...

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is recruiting a group of experts to evaluate the risk of collision of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with manned aircraft. The decision was made after increased sightings of dangerous proximity of aircraft in the air. Experts will conduct tests and security...

Brazil plans to eradicate the source to put an end to Zika victims’ cases. As per Brazil’s confirmation, the country so far registered “91,387 cases of Zika”, which included “7,584 pregnant women” resulting in a risk of giving birth to babies with “birth defects”.   The statement coming...

The US president urged Congress to push on with the approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. United States President Barack Obama said that only the United States and partners should set the rules of global trade. For this reason, Obama is calling on Congress to hurry up with the...

Amid mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea, Russia offered support for China’s opposition to U.S. actions in two of Asia’s biggest security flash points.   The possible U.S. deployment of the Thaad anti-missile system in South Korea to defend against the...

A new study on social media finds the difference between happy tweets as oppose to dissatisfied tweets. A group of scientists believe that an individual’s tweet can be used as a yard stick to measure his happiness. The team used data from Twitter to “measure users' life satisfaction, a component of...

One of the designers of the new Berlin-Brandenburg airport named after Willy Brandt (BER) believes that the building may never be opened. It was originally planned that the airport will be put into operation in 2011, but the opening was postponed several times. Now, the Berlin authorities expect...