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ANKARA (AA) – An Australian teenager detained at a prison in Syria’s northeastern city of Al-Hasakah has died, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said over the weekend. In a statement, HRW said Yusuf Zahab’s family reported that he was forced as a child to live under Daesh/ISIS before he was detained. The family was informed by […]
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): Thousands of Sudan’s Hawsa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country’s south. Violence in Blue Nile state, bordering Ethiopia, has killed 60 people and wounded 163 others, including 13 in se...
Sadiqabad, Pakistan – (AFP): At least 18 women drowned and dozens more people are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying a Pakistan wedding party capsized on Monday, officials said. The boat was ferrying about 100 members of one family across the Indus river in a marriage procession between the villages of Machka and Kharor in [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – Two earthquakes rattled Afghanistan’s Paktika and Badakhan provinces on Monday, injuring at least 10 people, according to authorities. The eastern Paktika province’s Gayan district, which was severely devastated by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on June 22, was struck again by a quake, injuring at least 10 people. The pro...
PARIS (AA) – France signed a strategic energy cooperation agreement Monday with the United Arab Emirates to secure fuel and gas supplies as it moves to attain energy independence from Russia. Paris sealed the crucial energy deal on the first overseas state visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who arrived in [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – The US president dismissed the Saudi minister’s recent remarks in which he claimed that he never heard Joe Biden accuse Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during their meeting. In response to a reporter’s query after arriving at the White House about whether “the [...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Tribal violence has flared in Kassala city in eastern Sudan amid arson attacks on government premises and shops. Armed men from Hausa tribe attacked and set fire to government buildings, marketplaces and shops in the city, eye witnesses said. The violence grew out of tension between Hausa and Birta tribes in […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish gendarmerie soldier was killed and another injured during an anti-terrorism operation in the eastern province of Van, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The casualties occurred in an IED explosion in Van’s Catak district around 3.30 a.m. local time (0030GMT), according to a ministry statement. “We wish God’s mercy on...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A Somali passenger plane landed upside down before catching fire at an airport in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, and all people on board were saved, said an official. A civilian airliner with 36 passengers crash-landed at Aden Adde International Airport, an official from Somalia’s Civil Aviation Authority told...
ANKARA (AA) – A strong earthquake rattled Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province on Monday, the second temblor in less than a month. “So far, one person is injured and 16 houses are damaged,” Mohammad Naseem Haqqani, a spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), also known as the Disast...
