News archive of October 2015

Discussion on the draft bill on bank recapitalization began in Greek Parliament shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday. On Friday night, the bill had been approved by the plenary of the economic affairs committee.

The meeting on the bill is expected to end shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday.

A Russian airplane carrying more than 200 people on board has reportedly crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday.

The information on the crash has been confirmed by the office of the Egyptian Prime Minister, the BBC reports.

The airplane operated by Kogalymavia airline was conducting flight 92-68 from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg.

A passenger jet traveling from the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg disappeared from radar screens in Cypriot airspace. The Russian Kogalymavia airlines Airbus A-321, according to sources, had 217 passengers (17 children) and seven crew members on board. All of the passengers were Russian civilians.

The Atacama desert, Chile, is awash with color after a year of extreme rainfall.

These areas can go for years without a drop of rainfall, but after a rainy boom for the region, heavy thunderstorms brought 2.43cm of rain in one part of the Atacama region in March alone.

Police in Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity of Bosnia, on Friday seized a huge quantity of flammable liquids, explosives and fireworks that were going to be used "in a possible terrorist attack".

The action took place at the Hotel Dallas in Janja, a village in northeast Bosnia.

On Monday, November 2, all acts ceased as a result of capital controls – such as foreclosures of homes as part of debt collection – will once again swing into action according to a decree by the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.

At least 26 people have lost their lives after an fire and an explosion in a disco club in Bucharest, Romania.

Another 145 have been taken to hospital, Agerpres agency quotes the head of the Interior Ministry's emergency situations department, Raed Arafat, as saying.

The latest opinion polls tell us that neither the make-up of the four-party parliament, nor the ranking of the parties in parliament, is likely to change substantially on Nov. 1, a re-run of the June 7 general election.

Only five months since the last general election failed to produce a single-party government, Turkish voters return to polling stations on Nov. 1, with slim prospects of a substantial difference raising the stakes for all parties.