ANTALYA /Turkey/, March 29. /TASS/. Moscow and Ankara has agreed to step up work to establish Syria’s Constitutional Committee in cooperation with the UN, the Syrian government and the opposition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Friday at a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu following a meeting of the Joint Strategic Planning Group.

CARACAS, March 30. /TASS/. The military cooperation between Moscow and Caracas should not be a source of concern for other states, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on Friday.

"It’s of no secret to anyone that our country has been maintaining the defense cooperation with Russia since 2001, but their [Russian servicemen’s] visit has sparked a scandal," the Venezuelan Defense Ministry quoted Padrino as saying in a Twitter post. "Nobody should worry about cooperation to increase our operative readiness."

29 Mar 2019; AFP: Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.

The information is part of preliminary findings from the analysis of black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which crashed southeast of Addis Ababa killing 157 people on March 10, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

DUBLIN, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The direct shipping of goods between Ireland and the continental Europe has witnessed a marked increase as more companies choose to bypass British ports amid Brexit fears, local media RTE reported on Friday.

The report quoted local port authorities as saying that currently two-and-a-half times more goods move on direct routes from Dublin than via the UK landbridge and that number is expected to increase.

The UK landbridge refers to Britain as a bridge linking Ireland and the European mainland over the sea.

Video of a professor father beating his 5 yr old daughter while the daughter is begging for mercy has become viral.

According Bihar News report posted on twitter, father Krishna Muktibodh can be seen beating and swearing at her 5 year old daughter Jai Shree.

Mumbai, Mar 29 (PTI) Celebrated indie filmmakers such as Anand Patwardhan, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan and Devashish Makhija have come together to issue an appeal to defeat fascism in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, saying the country is going its most "testing times ever".

In a joint statement issued on the website www.artistuniteindia.com, the group of 103 filmmakers have called people "to protect the democracy of the country" and claimed that the "BJP has made the country the boardroom property of a handful of businessmen".

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 30 (PTI) A woman was allegedly burnt alive by her in-laws in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Saturday.

The incident took place in Haibatpur village under Charthawal police station on Friday, they said.

The woman was identified as Sonia, who was married to Arvind Kumar, they said.

GAZA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- In the Palestinian Gaza Strip, wedding plans of a Palestinian couple were torn apart after an Israeli airstrike destroyed the residential building that housed their future "nest."

The financial conditions of 26-year-old Walid al-Shawa, a taxi driver from Gaza city, are so difficult and cannot help him rent an apartment ahead of his wedding. That is why he rented a room at his sister's apartment, who lives in a residential building of several floors in Gaza City.

DHAKA, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A fire gutted some 300 shops in a kitchen market located at Bangladesh capital Dhaka's Gulshan on Saturday, destroying goods and property, said a firefighter.

The firefighter who preferred to be unnamed said the fire, which originated at around 6:00 a.m. local time, raged on till 8:00 a.m. local time.

He said 21 units of firefighters have been trying to douse the fire.

No casualties have so far been reported.

The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained.

KIEV, March 29. /TASS/. The Central Election Commission prohibited local election commissions to make any changes to the ballot papers, the Central Election Commission (CEC) press service reported on Friday.

The CEC stressed that after March 7 presidential candidates have no right to refuse to run for presidency. Thus, as of March 29 the Central Election Commission registered 39 candidates to the post of Ukrainian president who were included in the ballot paper for the March 31 election.

TIRANA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Albania's economy grew by 4 percent in 2018, former Minister of Finance and Economy Arben Ahmetaj said on Friday.

"Consumption and investments remain the main generators of economic growth, reflecting on the consumer confidence and Albania's economic growth, thanks to the reforms we have undertaken over the past years, as well as the appropriate fiscal consolidation," Ahmetaj said.

SOFIA, March 29. /TASS/. NATO and the EU must find ways of cooperating with Russia, confrontation will not bring favorable outcomes, Bulgarian Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov told TASS on Friday.