A suicide bomber attempted to attack the police department in Turkey’s Mersin province on September 6. The police building is located near the national intelligence service building.
Opposition politicians of the United Kingdom urged Prime Minister Theresa May to launch an investigation into the Azerbaijani money laundering case and the involvement of British companies in the matter, the Guardian reports.
The earthquake almost wasn’t felt at all by locals.
Negotiations with Iran around partnership with the Eurasian Economic Union are nearing completion, Russia’s first Vice PM Igor Shuvalov said during the Eastern Economic Conference in Vladivostok.
The ministry reminded that after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, many Germans have been arrested in the country.
Armen Ashotyan, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Armenian Parliament, spoke about the Azerbaijani money laundering corruption scandal during the European People’s Party’s Political Assembly.
The 6th trilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian foreign ministers will take place September 6 in Baku.
Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation, is calling for an investigation into the Azerbaijani briberies of European politicians, and to sanction the perpetrators.
The secret fund, nicknamed the Azerbaijan Laundromat, operated for two years until 2014, according to the investigation, carried out by a consortium of European newspapers and published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
It is almost impossible to drive in the city, with numerous traffic collision reported city-wide as the knee-high water flooded streets and underpasses.