A cold wave across Europe has taken at least 27 lives in the past few days, including those of several migrants and homeless people, and victims of accidents due to icy roads.
Turkish authorities have taken into custody two foreign nationals at Istanbul's main airport on suspicion of being connected to the New Year’s Eve terrorist attack on a nightclub that killed 39 people.
The recent Istanbul bombings have claimed at least 42 lives while the death toll is feared to rise, as some of the injured are still in critical condition. The suspected ISIS attack is among the deadliest ones carried out by terror groups at airports.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have talked on the phone for the first time since Ankara downed one of Moscow's jets in Syria last year.