With hotels, car rental agencies, restaurants and even banks, Mexico City’s main fruit and vegetable market, the “Central de Abasto”, is more than just a place to get your groceries — it is a mini city within a city. The mega-market supplies a vast capital city and its surroundings with produce from its labyrinthine hallways, […]

More than 250 migrants were rescued in the central Mediterranean during the night between Monday and Tuesday, Italy’s Coast Guard said. A statement said the migrants, in one large rubber dinghy and two small boats, were rescued in three missions by two ships, one from a non-governmental organization, Reuters reported. Migrant arrivals to Italy have […]

An Iraqi MP issued a statement on Tuesday saying that Barzani is after destabilizing the northern Iraq to pose more pressure on Tehran, Baghdad, and Ankara. Abdul Rahman al Louizi, Iraqi MP from the constituency of Nineveh Governorate, issued a communique on Tuesday saying that all terrorist groups in northern Iraq are supported by Kurdistan […]

The software the FBI and 18,000 other US law enforcement agencies use to analyze fingerprints may contain a Russian code placed by a French company after a secret deal with a Russian firm, two whistleblowers say. The former employees of a subsidiary of the French firm Safran Group said the company secretly purchased code from the Russian […]

TEHRAN – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday that U.S. measures against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – the official name for the nuclear agreement between Iran and great powers – is sending a destructive message to North Korea which is caught in a fierce nuclear dispute with the United States. “The […]

 ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, said that reaching an agreement by the guarantor states  of the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria,( Russia, Iran and Turkey) on a number of issues on the agenda of Astana 8 meeting on Syria, held last week, is a “great progress.” “We await further practical steps from […]

Representatives of the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces have agreed on a major prisoner exchange following a long-standing conflict in Ukraine’s volatile east. Representatives from the two sides made the announcement in a joint televised statement on Monday, saying they would exchange prisoners on December 27. Kiev representative Viktor Medvedchuk said Ukraine was ready to […]

US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have claimed that a central part of the probe into the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election will conclude quickly. Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the parts of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation involving the president would wrap up soon. “I know we, […]

The decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev “On measures of ensuring accelerated development of the tourism industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan” of December 2, 2016, served as an important factor in ensuring further development of the tourism sector, granting tourism the status of strategic sector of economy, effectively using […]

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has announced the successful launch of a rocket with Earth remote sensing satellites. China successfully launched on Tuesday the Chang Zheng-2 rocket carrying three Earth remote sensing satellites, which is the last country’s space launch in 2017, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said. “CASC successfully […]