The USGS said the earthquake struck at 19:49 local time (12:49 GMT). It said the epicentre was 805km (500 miles) south-west of the city of Padang, and 24km deep, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to BBC. Indonesian officials issued a tsunami ...

The issue of the EU visa liberalization for Georgia will be considered separately from Ukraine, MEP and the parliament’s rapporteur on the Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia Andrejs Mamikins said in an interview with Georgian Rustavi 2 TV ...

The first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station (ISS) wraps up on Tuesday, March 1, the same day that SpaceX aims to launch a communications satellite and land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a ship ...

Ukrainian President said that the Parliament and the coalition should take responsibility of the reboot of the government today, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the Presidential press service. “The only thing I would like to emphasize is that I cannot ...

According to NASA, this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Wolf–Rayet star known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel), Joinfo.ua reports. “The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR ...

Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania will cooperate in the space sector within joint trilateral format, Joinfo.ua reported with reference to Interfax-Ukraine. During the meeting of the Ukrainian-Lithuanian working group on space sector cooperation, the parties agreed to expand the existing bilateral ...

An Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man’s first steps on the moon in 1969 has found hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind the Milky Way by using an innovative receiver that measures radio waves, Reuters reports. “Hundreds ...

On February 23, speaking on air in the program “Ten minutes with the Prime Minister,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the Ukrainian government will begin the financing of political parties from 2016 to combat against corruption in the country, Joinfo.ua reports ...

The food giant said it has decided to voluntarily recall some products as a precaution, BBC reports. In the UK the products affected include funsize Mars and Milky Way bars and boxes of Celebrations. In the Netherlands Mars and Snickers ...

The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said during his visit to Moscow on February 17, the source told UNIAN, Joinfo.ua reports. Orban said the decision had been made under the pressure of the European Union’s leadership. “The fact that Ukrainian ...

Their statement said the truce did not include so-called Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. So, Syria, Russia and the US-led coalition will continue air strikes against these groups, BBC reports. World powers had on 12 February agreed ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s spokesman, Martin Schaefer, said that he will meet in Berlin with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and they will then fly to Kyiv, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to ABC news. Schaefer said the ministers will ...

In an interview with Reuters, Duda hit back at comments by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who last week described East-West relations as descending “into a new Cold War” and said NATO was “hostile and closed” toward Russia. “If Mr ...

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin submitted a letter of resignation to the Presidential Administration, as the spokesman of the Ukrainian president Svyatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter today, Joinfo.ua reports. “Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin wrote a letter of resignation. It ...

“The leaders of the Samopomich party have decided to recognize as impossible Samopomich’s further alliance with the political forces that are involved in an oligarchic coup at the parliament and stop its membership in the parliamentary coalition,” faction leader Oleh  ...