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India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Feb. 15 in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency.

Scientists who were at the launch in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota burst into applause as the head of India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced all the satellites had been ejected.

India slowly but steadily becomes an important international player in the space sector. On Wednesday India made yet another important step towards that direction, as the country successfully launched 104 nano-satellites into orbit.

Of the 104 satellites, 96 belong to the USA, one to Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UAE.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is in talks with Gulf sovereign wealth funds to invest jointly, and hopes to complete a round of fund-raising for such investments by the end of this year, the bank's president said on Feb. 13.

Senior Turkish and U.A.E. officials pledged to increase economic and trade relations at a high-level meeting in Ankara on Feb. 7.        

The ninth Turkey-U.A.E. Joint Economic Committee brought Sultan bin Saeed al-Mansouri, U.A.E.'s economy minister, to the Turkish capital to meet Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek.        

Bulgaria is the EU's most toxic country and is among a dozen most toxic ones in the world, a recent study shows.

Published by the Eco Experts, a British company, it shows Bulgaria as the only country coloured in black in Europe, alongside Bosnia-Herzegovina.

While Bulgaria is not one of the There are around a dozen countries in black on the world map.

Leaders of the three biggest US airlines are seeking to meet with new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to revive their stalled complaint that rivals from the Middle East are getting unfair government subsidies.

Many people are angry with the President Trump’s falsely-labeled “Muslim ban,” which bars refugees from seven high-risk Muslim majority countries for a period of JUST 90 days. The same countries, of course, were previously identified by President Obama’s own Department of Homeland Security, but some people and media choose to forget that…

Houthis released a video showing the distraction of a Al Madinah-class frigate of the Royal Saudi Navy.

This is the second and most important naval success for the Houthis of Yemen after the distraction of the HSV-2 formerly belonged to the United States Navy  and leased to the  United Arab Emirates Navy.

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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Jan. 24 called for boosting security cooperation with the Gulf states as the Western military alliance opened its first office in the region.