(BBC News) Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters celebrated well into the night after Turkey's long-time president secured another five years in power.
"The entire nation of 85 million won," he told cheering crowds outside his palace on the edge of Ankara.
But his call for unity sounded hollow as he ridiculed his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu – and took aim at a jailed Kurdish leader and pro-LGBT policies.
The opposition leader did not explicitly concede victory.
Complaining of "the most...
(BBC News) Hundreds of Germans working in the education and cultural sectors will be expelled from Russia next month, the German foreign ministry says.
It confirmed media reports that Russia had decided to cap the number of German employees from the start of June.
They include teachers at the German school in Moscow and staff at the Goethe Institute cultural association.
The move follows tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and increasingly strained relations between Russia and Germany.
Last month,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Moscow and Minsk have signed a deal to formalize the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles on Belarusian territory.
Russia on Thursday said the step was driven by rising tensions with the West.
“In the context of an extremely sharp escalation of threats on the western borders of Russia and Belarus, a decision was made to take countermeasures in the military-nuclear sphere,” Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency quoted Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia said it scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to “prevent violations of the state border” by two United States Air Force strategic bombers flying over the Baltic Sea.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the military had prevented any border violation by the U.S. planes, and “the flight of the Russian fighter was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.”
“After removing...
(Tech Xplore) Two types of people thrive in the distant hidden recesses of the Dark Web. One type consists of the good guys: whistleblowers, freedom fighters, journalists, the intelligence community, and law-enforcement agencies, all generally waging the good fight against power, greed, and tyranny.
The other type is made up of the bad guys: criminals, drug gangs, extortionists, weapons dealers, terrorists.
The Dark Web is an active mall where criminals offer a laundry list of criminal...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has said it is fully capable of securing regional waters in co-operation with other regional actors after a move by western allies in the strategic Strait of Hormuz that Tehran called “theatrical”.
The comment came on Sunday as Iranian officials held a ceremony near the country’s southern waters to welcome back two Iranian warships after an eight-month trip around the world.
Two days earlier, the Middle East-based navy commanders of France, the...
(University of Michigan) Better understanding the formation of swirling, ring-shaped disturbances — known as vortex rings — could help nuclear fusion researchers compress fuel more efficiently, bringing it closer to becoming a viable energy source.
The model developed by researchers at the University of Michigan could aid in the design of the fuel capsule, minimizing the energy lost while trying to ignite the reaction that makes stars shine. In addition, the model could help other engineers...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor who in March prepared a warrant for the arrest of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges, Russian media reported on Friday.
Karim Khan, the prosecutor at the Hague-based war crimes court, was added to the Interior Ministry’s wanted list, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing the ministry’s database.
A picture of the ICC prosecutor, who...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) After more than a decade of isolation, Bashar al-Assad, the president of war-torn Syria, has been welcomed back into the Arab League.
al-Assad on Friday attended the regional bloc’s 32nd summit in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for the first time since his country’s suspension following the eruption of war in Syria in 2011.
During his speech, he said the summit was a “historic opportunity” to address crises across the region...
(BBC News) The U.S. says it will support providing advanced fighter jets including U.S.-made F-16s to Ukraine, and will back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.
A senior White House official said President Joe Biden had told G7 leaders in Japan of the decision.
Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky, who has requested fighter jets for months, said the decision would "greatly enhance our army in the sky."
U.S. approval for the scheme means other nations can export their...
