Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as chairman of the ruling AK party (Justice and Development) on May 21 during an extraordinary congress. 1414 votes were cast in his favor, Turkish media reported.
Three climbers have died and one is missing on Mount Everest. According to The Washington Post, the death of the climbers was conrmed only after weather conditions allowed rescuers to reach the scene.
“The authorities try to either subsidize the small business or provide interestfree loans to entrepreneurs. As a result, more than 15.000 small enterprises are currently working in the Governorate”, Fares al-Shehabi said, adding tax holiday was given to entrepreneurs for the period of time that their businesses remained closed during militant occupation.
Georgia and Turkey are strategic partners. According to official statistics, Turkey tops Georgia’s list of trading partners. The trade turnover between the two countries comprised more than 452 million USD in rst quarter of 2017.
Demonstrators gathered across Brazil on Sunday to call for the resignation of President Michel Temer who is implicated in a widening corruption scandal that is undermining his government’s fragile efforts to end a historic recession, Reuters reports.
North Korea says it’s ready to deploy and start massproducing a new medium-range missile capable of reaching Japan and major U.S. military bases there following a test launch it claims confirmed the missile’s combat readiness and is an “answer” to President Donald Trump’s policies, ABC reports.
In addition, the Azerbaijani forces fired also 60 mm mortar (4 shells) at the northern direction of the line of contact. The Artsakh Defense Army forces mainly refrained from taking countermeasures and continue condently conducting the military service.
Areg Galstyan (Russia), PhD, regular contributor to Forbes, the National Interest, the Hill and the American Thinker, editor-in-chief and head of American Studies, commenting on the statement issued by OSCE MG Co-Chairs, condemning Azerbaijani actions, told “168 Hours” that it has several reasons.
“There are two main streams contributing to peace and stability in the region: Armed Forces of Artsakh and Armenia, their combat readiness, this is one of the most important factors. The other crucial factor is consolidated opinion of the international community, that war is impermissible. In particular, they more seriously refer to these issues after April 2016.”
Armenian lawmakers elected chairmen for the 9 standing committees. Chairman of the counting commission Gagik Melikyan released the voting results in the Parliament.
