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Ford, an American car company, will bet on the speed rather than the eco-friendliness of its future sports cars, said Dave Perik, the company's director of sports project management. This is reported by the CarsWeek. Our vehicles still have to be exciting for them to want to run over and over again, Perik said. He added that some countries change emission rules quite often. This is reflected in automakers of powerful machines, which do not always have time to adjust to them in time. However, the company wil...

Turkey is determined to push Syrian government forces outside its observation posts in the Idlib de-escalation zone. This was stated by Turkish President Rekeep Taip Erdoğan on February 12 during a speech in Parliament. He stressed that Assad's regime troops should be thrown outside the Idlib zone before the end of February. Ankara is ready to use any necessary force to do so. Erdogan also said that if Turkey's positions were attacked, there would be retaliatory attacks on the Syrian military even if their positions were outside the territories stipulated in the Sochi memorandum. According to the news agency, Erdoğan claimed the death of at least 14 Turkish soldiers in two shelling attacks in the Syrian province of Idlib. Read also: Erdogan: 14 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria A also: Erdogan accused Damascus and Moscow of attacking civilians in Idlib ...

The Ukrainian authorities decided to stop financing the Crimean-Tatars TV channel ATR. This was announced during the broadcast on the official ATR channel in YouTube by Deputy General Director of the TV channel Aider Muzhabayev. According to him, a meeting was held in the State Council of Ukraine, during which it was decided that the amount of 50 million UAH (about two million dollars) will not be allocated for the financing of the TV channel. Muzhabayev said that as an alternative to the TV channel offered to hold competitions for the production of content. He noted that the TV channel will continue its broadcasting in emergency mode, for example, on the air will be shown footage with disconnection from the broadcast of ATR TV channel. Since the summer of 2015, ATR began broadcasting from Kiev due to the non-issuance of a license on the territory of Russian Crimea. ...

Two former employees of the special unit Berkut Alexander Marinchenko and Sergey Tamtura returned to Kiev, according to the lawyer of former Ukrainian prisoners Alexander Goroshinsky on his page on the social network Facebook on February 8. The lawyer also published an open appeal of former employees of the Special Unit to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Umumkov and Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Ryaboshapka. Marinchenko and Tamtura said they had been held in prison...