Russia's budget deficit has swollen as oil prices fell sharply from 2014 and the West imposed sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
Government forces have now seized all villages in the Haj Ali area and reached the eastern bank of the Tigris, around 60 km (40 miles) south of Mosul.
China's government was quick to refute an editorial calling for Beijing to ready itself for war in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
Liquefied natural gas, coal plants and nuclear power account for most of South Korea’s current energy production.
The measures, outlined by the central bank’s Financial Policy Committee Tuesday, could potentially free up to $197 billion for lending to businesses and households.
Turkey struck a deal with the European Union in March to stem the flow of migrants into Europe.
Scientists at NASA have invited members of the general public to discuss and vote on what the high-resolution color camera on board the Juno spacecraft captures during its orbits of Jupiter.
Rodrigo Duterte, known as “the punisher,” won the presidential election in May on a platform of crushing crime. However, his advocacy of extrajudicial killings has alarmed many.
The U.S. sent two B-52 Stratofortress, which can be equipped with long-range nuclear air-to-ground missiles, to fly over the skies near South Korea during drills between June 13 and 20.
More than a million people were forced to evacuate their homes and relocate, according to Xinhua.
Earlier, local police officials had said business rivalry was a more likely motive for the June 28 grenade attack on the Movida bar and restaurant outside Kuala Lumpur.
Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly the sheep — the world’s first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell — has called for the creation of a biobank that holds tissues of endangered animals.
The company at the center of Brazil’s massive corruption scandal is currently dealing with a $126 billion debt — the largest in the world oil industry.
Beijing has begun military drills scheduled to finish July 11, a day before the Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in the territorial dispute between China and the Philippines.
Most of the attackers, who killed 20 hostages at a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, reportedly came from affluent backgrounds and were educated in prestigious schools.
The solar-powered spacecraft braved intense radiation to complete a risky insertion maneuver late Monday that placed it in orbit around the gas giant.
The Associated Press, which this report cited earlier, had erroneously reported that Abdullah Qalzar Khan was the person behind the attack outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
The U.K., reeling under the impact of the Brexit vote, will “barely escape a full-fledged recession,” the rating agency said in a report released Monday.
The spacecraft, which provided the first close-up pictures of the former planet, will head deeper into the Kuiper Belt to explore an object which hadn’t been discovered when it launched.
The Brexit campaigner stepped down saying he had achieved his political ambition with a victory for the “leave” camp in the EU referendum.
If it completes the crucial orbit insertion process on July 4, the solar-powered spacecraft will spend 18 months around the gas giant.
London law firm Mishcon de Reya said Sunday it would start legal action against the British government to ensure a parliamentary debate before invoking Article 50.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, now the world’s largest radio telescope, took five years to build and China plans to use it to search for extraterrestrial life.
Last week's suicide attack on Istanbul airport was the worst by ex-Soviet jihadists outside their own region since the Boston marathon bombing in 2013.
Authorities said the suspected militants had planned to blow up a Shiite mosque and a ministerial building during Ramadan or Eid Al-Fitr.
Saturday's election was meant to end political turmoil that had seen four prime ministers in three years.
The plan to reduce corporate tax is part of the government’s efforts to reassure investors spooked by last month’s EU referendum.
The move is reportedly in response to an incident last week in which a businessman from Abu Dhabi, dressed in robes and a head scarf, was mistaken for a terrorist in Ohio.
An Egyptian-contracted vessel will head back to the crash site in the Mediterranean Sea to carry out further scans.
China’s internet regulator said Sunday that online media cannot report any news taken from social media sites without approval from authorities.
