Daily Monitor

A Ukrainian airliner with at least 170 people on board crashed on Wednesday due to technical problems soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.

The fall of Surt comes as foreign powers intensify their involvement in the conflict, escalating the battle for control of the country.

Japan, a US ally, is launching its own operation rather than join a US-led mission to protect shipping in Gulf region.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has repeatedly expressed concern to Washington over U.S. visa delays for officials from Russia and other countries, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday after Moscow accused Guterres of turning a blind eye.

Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has declared December 28 the national day of mourning, President’s Press Secretary Berik Uali says.

Ukrainian officials have opened a criminal investigation after a passenger train from Russia arrived in Crimea via a new Russian-built bridge, arguing that the train illegally carried people across the Ukrainian border.

2019 was the year of youth activism. Around the world, students and young adults took matters into their own hands, fighting for social issues like gender equality and climate action.

Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access across several provinces and security has been heightened in Tehran, the Iranian Labour News Agency reported, as mourning ceremonies approach for protesters killed last month in a government crackdown.

North Korea warns US of a possible 'gift' after its leader Kim Jong Un gave end-of-year deadline for sanctions relief.

Up to 30,000 leave area of Idlib province as government forces push to reopen road from Damascus to Aleppo

Jihadists attacked a town in northern Burkina Faso and killed 35 civilians, most of them women, and ensuing clashes with security forces left 80 jihadists dead, the West African nation's president announced late Tuesday.

Turkey-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation says as of Monday 120,000 Syrians have fled towards the Turkish border.

Turkey views different cultures and traditions as 'valuable asset', Erdogan says in Christmas message

One thousand tonnes of Kazakh corns were exported to China in 32 train containers through the Khorgos dry port Monday

China decided to adjust tariffs on some imported goods from Jan 1, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on Monday.

Chinese financial aid for crisis-ridden Greece over the past few years has created much good will for Beijing. Now Athens hopes the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping will bring more economic deals.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH).

The lower house of the Kazakh parliament on Wednesday approved the amendments to a Kazakh-Russian agreement on building the Baiterek space rocket complex

Cheng Jingye also says detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun’s rights are being protected

The Government session chaired by Prime Minister Askar Mamin considered the results of the implementation of «Densaulyq» State Healthcare Development Program for 2016-2019, Kazinform refers to the press service of the Prime Minister.