Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has pledged €50m (£42m) in funds for rebuilding, BBC reports. At least 268 people are now known to have died and 400 were injured. Teams have continued to search the rubble of toppled buildings for a ...
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U.S. concerned about surprise check of combat readiness in Russian Armed Forces
The U.S. Department of Defense has seen reports about the beginning of surprise drills by the Russian military; it hopes that Russia will meet all obligations and keep all promises in regard to arms control and confidence building agreements and ...
Read More »US Presidential election: Trump campaign chairman Manafort quits
Donald Trump confirmed Manafort’s departure in a statement, BBC reports. He first took control of Trump’s campaign after former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was fired in June. The 67-year-old veteran political strategist has come under fire for his ties to ...
Read More »Rio 2016: Canoeist Cheban bags second gold for Ukraine
Ukraine’s Iurii Cheban has won gold with 39.279 points in the final round of the single canoeing event. Valentin Demyanenko from Azerbaijan claimed the silver medal with 39.493 points, bronze went to the Barazilian Isaquias Queiroz Dos Santos (39.628 points). ...
Read More »Rio 2016: Ukraine’s athlete Bondarenko wins bronze in high jump
Ukraine’s athlete Bohdan Bondarenko has won the bronze medal in high jump at 2.33 m at the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Joinfo.ua reports. The Canadian Derek Drouhin has won gold with the result of 2.38 m and Motaz ...
Read More »The world’s longest aircraft makes first test flight
The world’s longest aircraft has made the first 19 minute flight above its airfield in Bedfordshire, the Wired reports. The AirLander 10, carrying two test pilots, took off from the Cardington Airfield at 19:45BST on August 17 and touched back ...
Read More »Rio 2016: Gymnast Oleh Verniaiev wins first Olympic gold for Ukraine
The Ukrainian gymnast Oleh Verniaiev, 22, has won the gold medal with the result of 16.041 points, Joinfo.ua reports. USA’s Danell Leyva won the silver medal with 15.900 points, Russia’s David Belyavskiy got 15.783 points and won the bronze medal. Verniaiev ...
Read More »July 2016 was world’s hottest month since records began, says Nasa
Last month was the hottest month in recorded history, beating the record set just 12 months before and continuing the long string of monthly records, according to the latest Nasa data, The Guardian reports. The past nine months have set ...
Read More »Rio 2016: Wrestler Beleniuk bags fourth Olympic silver medal for Ukraine
Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk won the silver medal in a Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 85 kg competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Monday August 15, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Interfax-Ukraine. In the decisive fight, he was beaten ...
Read More »Give us EU visa freedom in October or abandon migrant deal, Turkey says
His comments in Bild’s Monday edition coincide with rising tensions between Ankara and the West that have been exacerbated by the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, Reuters reports. Turkey is incensed by what it sees as an ...
Read More »Ukraine officially launches e-declaration system
“Well my dear friends, as you can see, without politics and without hysterics, exactly at 00:00 Kyiv time, we launched the e-declaration on time. The system is working. The developers need to focus on the elimination of deficiencies and receiving ...
Read More »Science & technology offers are still among well-paid jobs in UK
According to BBC, the Report on Jobs, produced monthly by IHS Markit, which collects data from 400 UK recruitment and employment firms, shows that permanent placements in July fell at the sharpest rate since May 2009, with participants citing uncertainty ...
Read More »Why people love to use fashion shopping apps – Manchester University research
A 2015 IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) report shows that visits to ecommerce sites via smartphone and tablet devices accounted for 45% of all ecommerce traffic in the UK. But retailers who have not ‘gone mobile’ are missing out ...
Read More »‘Historic’ Louisiana flooding: Three dead and thousands rescued
The National Guard and emergency teams have used helicopters to rescue people stranded in their homes or cars. Searches are continuing for missing people, as the rain is expected to continue over the weekend, BBC reports. The heavy rainfall started on ...
Read More »Magnitude 7.2 earthquake briefly triggers Pacific tsunami alert
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck about 330 miles (535km) south-east of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, briefly triggering a local tsunami warning, the Guardian reports. There were no initial reports ...
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