Turkey is ready “if necessary” to pay compensation to Russia after it shot down one of Moscow’s military jets over Syria in November, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said , reported AFP. “We have said that if necessary we are ready to pay compensation,” Yildirim told…

Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported yesterday. “A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), who were attempting to infiltrate the…

Two people are dead and another is missing after a rainstorm pounded a county in southwest China’s Guizhou Province from Monday evening to yesterday, reports Xinhua.The county seat of Zhijin was inundated by rain-triggered floods.Power supply, traffic and communication in the county have been…

The deputy editor of the Chinese Communist party’s top theoretical journal has committed suicide, reports said, sending speculation swirling over political infighting, freedom of thought and corruption, reports AFP. Zhu Tiezhi, 56, a well-known essayist on party theories and the deputy editor-in-chief…

A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Milan caught fire shortly after making an emergency landing, reports BBC. Flight SQ368, which departed at 02:05 local time on Monday (18:00 GMT Sunday), was two hours into the flight when the pilot announced there was an engine problem. The plane turned back and…