Transit through Central Asia jumps 70% in four years
Transit flows through Central Asian countries have increased by 70% between 2020 and 2024, according to the Eurasian Development Bank’s Transport Pr...
Ten firefighters have died and 14 others were injured battling a wildfire in Türkiye’s Eskisehir province.
Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said that 24 firefighters were trapped in the flames after a sudden change in wind direction. The injured were swiftly taken to hospital.
Firefighter Ercan Temel, who witnessed the incident, said on Wednesday, “They were fighting the fire at the top of the hill while we were at the bottom. They tried to escape uphill but were unable to.”
Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced that prosecutors have launched an investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, seven wildfires continue to burn across five provinces in central and western Türkiye.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
Transit flows through Central Asian countries have increased by 70% between 2020 and 2024, according to the Eurasian Development Bank’s Transport Projects Observatory.
More than 200 electric buses from China have arrived in Tashkent as part of Uzbekistan’s plan to modernise its public transport system and cut carbon emissions.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation led by Elina Valtonen, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Finland.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay €253 million in damages to Georgian citizens, a diplomatic victory that contrasts Tbilisi’s recent tensions within the Council of Europe.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that U.S. President Donald Trump had been misled by disinformation on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program which led him to order an attack on Iran in June.
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