Up to 80 people might have been inside employees' dormitories flooded due to a collapse of a dam in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, the regional branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on Saturday

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced that he will travel to the Middle East on Saturday to get updates on the current operations in the region and then will head to the NATO ministerial in Brussels where he will meet with Turkish counterparts and discuss the campaign to defeat the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia).

The World Food Programme (WFP) has managed to speed up deliveries of humanitarian aid and react more promptly to the needs of vulnerable groups thanks to being located in the UAE International Humanitarian City (IHC), Director of WFP UAE Mageed Yahia told Sputnik

US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that some European countries are ready to take back Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) fighters captured in Syria

The European Union leaders failed to reach a unanimous decision on Albania's and North Macedonia's accession talks at their latest summit, so the mood was somewhat somber when Jean-Claude Juncker was saying goodbye at his last conference as President of the European Commission

The Russian Foreign Ministry urges Ecuador, if it has questions about Russia's alleged involvement in protests, to ask Moscow, Aleksander Shchetinin, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Latin America (DLA), told reporters

The United Kingdom hopes for a permanent ceasefire in northern Syria and the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the area in the wake of the United States and Turkey agreeing that the latter will temporary suspend its military operation, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab said Friday

The number of deaths in Typhoon Hagibis in Japan has risen to 78, media reported on Friday

Berlin is pleased with the Turkish government's decision to suspend its military operation in northeastern Syria, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Christopher Burger said during a Friday press briefing

The Russian Defense Ministry obtained new comprehensive evidence the Arctic Ocean shelf belongs to Russia, the UN will consider it at a meeting in February, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said Friday at a meeting of the maritime board under the government in St. Petersburg

Pakistani actor Sajid Hasan has said that one good film makes career of several artists.According to details, the actor said that efforts of new filmmakers and producers should be encouraged for the revival of movies in the country

At least 22 schoolchildren have suffered minor injuries in a road accident involving school bus in central India's Madhya Pradesh state, media reported Friday

The Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has more than 6,600 entries in its unified investigative register of individuals believed to be involved in terrorist and extremist activities, the SCO RATS Executive Committee Director Dzhumakhon Giyosov said

Turkish Red Crescent President Kerem Kinik told Sputnik that the outflow of people from northern Syria affected by Operation Peace Spring was predictable and that he hoped this would be a temporary trend

The profit of the Russian banking sector in January-September 2019 amounted to 1.5 trillion rubles ($23.5 billion), an increase of 36.4 percent on the same period in 2018, according to a review about the banking sector development published by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).