News archive of November 2015

At least there major airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa and Air France, announced that they will stop flying over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after the Russian commercial plane crashed there killing all 224 passengers and crew.

President Barack Obama has authorized the first sustained deployment of special forces to Syria, the White House said on Oct. 30, reversing a long-standing refusal to put US boots on the ground.

Turkish voters are going to the polls for a second time this year in an early parliamentary election, with uncertainty over whether the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is to gain a majority.

Air strikes by Turkish and U.S. aircraft in Syria on Oct. 31 killed more than 50 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and wounded around 30, state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted security sources as saying on Nov. 1. 

Bulgarian border police officers have discovered 129 migrants in a refrigerated truck at the Kapitan Andreevo crossing at the Bulgaria-Turkey border.

The migrants were "in good health" at the time, the Interior Ministry has said.

It has added none had proper documents.

Of them, 38 were men, 33 women, and 58 children. All were hiding behind bottles of water.

American adult stars gathered in Las Vegas to get informed on the latest trends of the industry and decided to celebrate Halloween.

The stars wore tiny costumes managing to cover up only the important bits and posed proudly and sensually.

Too little has been done to safeguard citizens’ fundamental rights following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. They urge the EU Commission to ensure that all data transfers to the US are subject to an “effective level of protection” and ask EU member states to grant protection to Edward Snowden, as a “human rights defender”.

A run-off vote of Bulgaria's local elections is being held in 1128 villages, towns and cities across the country on Sunday.

In 970 of them voters are picking mayor, while others are to elect district or municipal mayors.