US midterm early voting hits record 48 million
A record 47.9 million Americans have already voted in next week's US midterm elections, with participation surging in key battleground states and registered Democrats outpacing Republicans, figures showed Friday.
Erdogan tells Syrian Kurds to leave border area for offensive to end
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey’s military operation in Syria will end only if Syrian Kurdish fighters lay down their weapons and leave the border area.
Fuel hikes protests leave 6 dead, 1507 injured in Ecuador
The government of Ecuador has revealed that the protests by its citizens sparked by fuel price hikes have left six people dead and 1,507 injured. A total of 1,330 people were arrested for protest-related crimes, such as vandalism, Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said at a joint press conference with General Commander of the National […]
Building collapsed in Brazil, has no construction registry
The building that collapsed Tuesday morning in Fortaleza, northeastern Brazil, was found to be an irregular one with no construction registry, said the city government. The lot where the collapsed building located had 13 apartments, including a penthouse. But there has been no official registry of a single house there since 1977. The authorities are […]
Erdogan calls U.S. charges against Turkey’s Halkbank ‘unlawful, ugly’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday described a U.S. indictment against Turkey’s state-run Halkbank as “unlawful” and “ugly.”
IT failure temporarily shuts down production at Porsche
Production at the German sports car manufacturer came to a temporary halt due to a major IT failure, Porsche confirmed to Xinhua on Wednesday. A Porsche spokesperson stressed that an internal problem was the reason for the failure, not an external cyber attack. A defective data storage unit triggered the problem while software that was […]
