News archive of September 2018

The Kremlin warned Saturday that the assassination of east Ukraine's top separatist leader was a provocation that would undermine the long-stalled, Western-brokered peace deal and fuel tensions in the smouldering conflict.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen admitted Saturday that "mistakes" had been made in an August air strike on Yemen that killed 51 people including 40 children.

New sections of the Sümela Monastery in the eastern Black Sea province of Trabzon will be open to visitors this month and the whole structure would be open by next year. Click through for the story in photos...

It would mean an end to moving the clocks every March and October.

EU announced this after an informal poll in which most of the surveyed European citizen declared against the current system.

The president of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker told BBC that millions of people believed that "summer time should be year-round and that's what will happen."

Mehmet Besimoğlu

According to the German daily Der Spiegel in the first half of 2018 the total number of applications for work permits which amounted to 52,000- has doubled comparing to the same period in 2015.

A 95-year-old British veteran of World War Two broke his own record on Saturday as the world's oldest scuba diver after taking the plunge to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus.

Police in Cyprus police say 24 Syrian migrants were located on a rocky outcrop along the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast after two patrol boats found an empty speedboat.

Greece has turned into a safe haven for Turkish criminals, Turkish foreign minister said, referring to Athens' decision to provide protection to two members of Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in the coutry, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 1.

Imprisoned main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu has passed the central university entrance exam, qualifying to enroll in the department of his choice.