NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – At least nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire during a military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said 97 others were injured, including six in critical condition. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its medics treated some 250 peop...
Paris, France (AFP): An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial. The Tehran Revolutionary Court convicted Jamshid Sharmahd in connection with the deadly bombing of a mosque in 2008, the judiciary’s M...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The bodies of at least 51 soldiers who were killed when their unit was ambushed last week in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso were found Monday during combing operations, said the army. “At the end of the day on Monday 20 February, 43 bodies were found, bringing the provisional toll […]
ISTANBUL/ANKARA/ALEPPO (AA/AFP) – At least three people were killed and hundreds others wounded after a fresh earthquake jolted Türkiye and Syria on Monday, the country’s disaster agency said on Tuesday. As many as 90 aftershocks have been recorded since Monday’s magnitude 6.4 quake, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidenc...
ANKARA (AA) – At least eight people were injured when two earthquakes jolted Türkiye’s southernmost Hatay province on Monday. The wounded have been shifted to hospitals for treatment, Vice President Fuat Oktay said at a news briefing. He said aftershocks are continuing in the region, with at least 20 recorded so far, and urged citizens [...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The border troops of Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged fire along a key border crossing on Monday, officials and local media reported. The firing – latest in a series of clashes between the two border forces – took place a day after Afghanistan’s Taliban government unilaterally shut down northwestern Torkham cro...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 41,156 people have died since two strong earthquakes jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, officials said Monday. Besides, 105,505 were injured, according to the latest official figures. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in the Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 11 provin...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): An Israeli missile strike early Sunday killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighbourhood home to much of Syria’s security apparatus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural centre, had killed 15 people including civilian...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP): Israel accused arch-foe Iran of orchestrating the expulsion of a top diplomat from the African Union summit on Saturday, with the help of Algeria and South Africa. The incident occurred on the first day of the summit, where leaders are discussing a slew of challenges facing the continent, including a record [&helli...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A day after tax authorities’ search ended at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices in India, the Ministry of Finance on Friday said that Income Tax Department conducted a survey of a prominent international media company and found “discrepancies and inconsistencies” in tax records. “The survey revealed that ...
