SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Five members of a family, including two children aged three and five and an infant, have been found dead in a rented accommodation in a northern district of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Faraz Ahmad, a resident of Kralpora village in the Kupwara district, where the unfortunate incident occurred, said that the [&he...
Antakya, Turkey (AFP): Heartrending scenes of a newborn plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter’s hand have laid bare the human cost of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday had claimed over 9,500 lives. For two days and nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake an impromptu […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Egypt on Wednesday for talks on developments in the Palestinian territories, said a group member on Tuesday. “Haniyeh will hold talks with Egyptian officials on the situation in the Palestinian territories,” he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorize...
Hatay, Turkey (AFP): Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of earthquakes that killed at least 4,800 people. Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region — pouring misery on...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A fresh earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck southern Türkiye on Monday afternoon, the country’s disaster agency said. The strong quake, which struck at 1.24 p.m, was centered in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras, according to the the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). The tremor occu...
Istanbul, Turkey (AFP): A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus, Egypt and Iraq. One of the largest quakes to strike Turkey in a century wiped out entire sections of […]
Jericho, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces on Monday killed five Palestinians in a raid near Jericho in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli official said. Hamas confirmed its fighters were among the dead, saying in a statement the Gaza-based group was mourning members of its military wing killed “in an armed clash with the Zio...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan’s self-exiled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who became a key US ally during the “war on terror”, died in a Dubai hospital on Sunday aged 79 after a long illness. Musharraf seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and was acting simultaneously as Pakistan’s army chief, chief exe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jericho on Saturday, according to a local health official. Israeli forces raided the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, triggering clashes with residents who hurled stones at them, eyewitnesses said. Israeli soldiers used tear gas c...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to China after the discovery of a Chinese “surveillance” balloon over US airspace, two State Department officials confirmed on Friday. China has since issued a mea culpa for the incident, saying the aircraft is a “civilian airship used for resear...
