Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded that Israel stop its attacks against Gaza. Earlier, the jewish state announced the expansion of its ground incursion into the Palestinian enclave. In a message published on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Erdogan claimed that Israeli bombardments target civilians and only deepen the humanitarian crisis. “Israel must immediately get…

The celebration is “inappropriate” amid efforts to preserve national cultural heritage, the Yakutian Education Ministry has said Russia’s largest region of Yakutia has said that Halloween festivities should not take place in schools, with the education ministry arguing that the holiday could interfere with the goal of preserving the national heritage and traditions.

The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Russia has opened a criminal case against Sergey Pugachev, charging the former banking tycoon with large-scale embezzlement and abuse of official position over the 2010 collapse of a bank he headed.