News archive of August 2020

A single-engine plane crashed on Monday morning into the front of a small building in a village in northern Greece, but no injuries were reported, according to Greek broadcaster Skai.

The incident happened in the village of Proti, in the regional unit of Serres, central Macedonia.

A single-engine plane crashed on Monday morning on the front of a small building in a village in northern Greece, but no injuries were reported, according to Greek broadcaster Skai.

The incident happened in the village of Proti, in the regional unit of Serres, central Macedonia.

 Authorities say an ISIL group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members is raging on after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said. 

Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said that another 43 people have been wounded. He said the dead include prisoners.

ISIL attacked a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members, leading to an hourslong battle on Aug. 3 that saw the military retake control of the facility even as militants continued to fire on them from a nearby neighborhood. The fighting killed at least 29 people and wounded 50, authorities said.

The Libyan army on Aug. 2 said Russian-made cargo planes made new military shipments to the forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Gen. Abdulhadi Dirah, the spokesman for the army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, said that carrying military ammunition, Ilyushin-type planes conducted five flights to Sirte and Jufra provinces on Aug. 1.

Bodies of at least four people have been recovered after a boat carrying nine people sank in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's western İzmir province, according to a security source on Aug. 2.

A total of nine people were on board, said a source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking the media.

Romanian tennis player Laura Paar will play on Monday in the last round of qualifiers for the main singles draw of the 163,103 euros Palermo Ladies Open WTA tournament, the first to take place in the WTA circuit after the interruption of the season in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Aug. 2, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.    

The mission, carried out jointly by NASA and the private company SpaceX, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back.    

In the wake of last month's dangerous escalation of tension between Greece and Turkey, the two countries have laid the groundwork for exploratory contacts on the terms and conditions of a possible resumption of a dialogue, with Berlin having played a pivotal role in the rapprochement. 

North Rhine Westphalia State Premier Armin Laschet is visiting Greece on Monday for a series of meetings with Greek officials to discuss migration and regional developments.