News archive of July 2015

The large Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar, off southeast Africa, is the location where a two-meter-long piece of an aircraft wing washed ashore, with suspicions immediately turning to missing MH370.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? over the latter?s claims that a deep state organization directly linked to Erdo?an conducted a suicide bombing attack that killed 32 people in the southeastern district of Suruç on July 20.

People took to the streets, with many of them rushing to hospitals, after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey?s Mediterranean Sea at 1:00 a.m. on July 30 off the Mersin bay and was felt in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana, Hatay and Osmaniye, with no casualties reported.

The protesters gathered in front of the Federation entity parliament in Sarajevo on Thursday, calling on lawmakers not to adopt the new legislation.

The police have questioned six persons over suspicions of irregularities that occurred during the State Lottery of Serbia's lotto draw on Tuesday.

The controversy stems from the fact one of the numbers appeared on TV screens before it had been drawn from the machine.

Robbie Williams, who is the headliner of the music festival Spirit of Burgas taking place on August 7 and 8 on the Black Sea coast, will perform with his father Pete Conway.

Father and son are expected to perform at least one song together, the organisers of the festival inform.

An ambush organized by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed the lives of three Turkish soldiers, the country's armed forces say.

PKK members opened fire on the ??rnak Görmeç Gendarmerie Battalion. The gendarmeries responded and an armed clash followed, Today's Zaman reports.

Friendship Day is celebrated on July 30. Set up in 1958 by the World Friendship Crusade in Paraguay to promote a celebration of social bonding, the commemoration took on international proportions when the UN declared it an international holiday in 2011. Since then member-states have been invited to observe the day — when they’re not engaged in warfare or civil strife.

A strong explosion occurred near a police station in the Aerodrom neighborhood of Skopje, Macedonian media said on Thursday.

Nobody was injured in the blast that took place last night.