DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu, 74, has been declared as the next president-elect of Bangladesh by the country’s Election Commission. Speaking to reporters in the capital Dhaka, Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that the ruling Awami League (AL) party nominee Shahabuddin was elected unopposed as the 22nd presid...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US Embassy in Moscow has issued a travel advisory for its citizens due to the “unpredictable consequences” of the war in Ukraine, which is approaching its one-year anniversary. “Do not travel to Russia due to … the potential for harassment and the singling out of US citizens for detention by Russian […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Türkiye-Armenia border has reopened for the first time in 35 years to carry humanitarian aid to people affected by Monday’s huge twin earthquakes in southern Türkiye. Five trucks carrying aid from Armenia crossed the border via the Alican border crossing eastern Türkiye’s Igdir province. Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Va...
LONDON (AA) – British police has arrested three protesters following a clash near a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwestern England. Merseyside police said earlier that officers are “dealing with two groups of protesters” in Prescot as they were “facilitating an initially peaceful protest and counter protest”...
IDLIB, Syria / ANKARA (AA) – Fourteen truckloads of UN humanitarian aid hacrossed into northwestern Syria through Türkiye after the region was hit by deadly earthquakes on Monday. The trucks entered the Idlib region through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing via the Cilvegozu border gate in Türkiye’s southern Hatay province. Sent as part of...
KIRIKKALE, Türkiye (AA) – Ender Kerem was trapped under the debris of his collapsed house for 44 hours after an earthquake struck southern Türkiye. “I was on the sofa, I immediately curled up at the edge of the sofa like a cat. Then I prayed to God and waited. “Then a column (of the house) […]
LONDON (AA) – The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching an appeal to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by the powerful earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria on Monday. The DEC will bring together 15 major UK aid charities, including the British Red Cross, Oxfam, and ActionAid, to raise funds that will […]...
Besnaya, Syria — AFP Malek Ibrahim made it out of his home after the earthquake hit Syria and thought he could breathe a sigh of relief. However, 30 relatives were still unaccounted for elsewhere. For the past two days, Ibrahim has been doggedly tearing at the rubble with his hands as he searches for family […]
Antakya, Turkey (AFP): Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. The death toll from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake is expected to rise sharply as rescue efforts pass...
PARIS (AA) – French magazine Charlie Hebdo has drawn criticism from Parisians with a cartoon it published mocking Türkiye after the country was hit by two deadly earthquakes on Monday. The cartoon, posted on Twitter under the heading “cartoon of the day,” shows buildings near collapse and lying in rubble, a flipped-over car, and pi...
