Search For "sputnik"
Death toll from earthquake in Turkey surpasses 40
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey's western Izmir province has gone up to 42, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management agency (AFAD).
Read More
Turkey earthquake death toll climbs to 39
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of those killed in the wake of Friday's powerful earthquake in western Turkey has climbed up to 39, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced on Saturday.
Read More
France: Suspected shooter of priest in Lyon detained
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Lyon [France], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): French police have detained a suspected shooter who injured an Orthodox priest in Lyon on Saturday, local media reported.
Read More
Turkey puts death toll from Izmir quake at 37
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late on Saturday that the death toll from an earthquake in the western Izmir province had climbed to 37, with hundreds more injured.
Read More
French Prime Minister hurries back to Paris after Church shooting
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], November 1 (ANI/Sputnik): French Prime Minister Jean Castex said Saturday he would immediately depart for Paris to attend a crisis meeting after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot at a church in the city of Lyon.
Read More
Toll from earthquake in western Turkey rises to 28
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of deaths from the recent earthquake in western Turkey has climbed to 28, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Saturday.
Read More
19 Taliban terrorists killed across Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Almost 20 Taliban terrorists have been killed across Afghanistan, including Mullah Amanullah, the movement's deputy head of the military commission for the Helmand province, the authorities said on Saturday.
Read More
Third suspect held over knife attack in France's Nice
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): French Police has arrested a third suspect believed to be connected to a man who killed three people with a knife at a church in the southern French city of Nice, media said Saturday.
Read More
Moscow will help Yerevan if conflict shifts into Armenia proper - Foreign
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia will offer assistance to Armenia if the conflict with Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region shifts into Armenia itself, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Read More
Russia's COVID-19 tally increases by 18,140 to 1,618,116
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Russia has increased by 18,140 to 1,618,116 in the last 24 hours, the response center said on Saturday.
Read More
COVID-19 cases in Germany surpasses 500,000
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany has confirmed 19,059 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, with the total count reaching 518,753, the Robert Koch Institute said on Saturday.
Read More
UK to allocate about USD 1.3 million for humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karab
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom will allocate 1 million pounds (around USD 1.3 million) for humanitarian aid to Azerbaijan's conflict-torn region of Nagorno-Karabakh at the request of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Foreign Office said.
Read More