Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP): Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 271 people, many of them children, appealed for food and water Wednesday as heavy rain and aftershocks hampered rescue efforts among the rubble of devastated villages. The calls for help came as authorities warned that debris from landslides caused by the stro...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two explosions occurred in West Jerusalem on Wednesday, according to Israeli police. A police statement said the first blast took place near a bus station at the entrance of West Jerusalem. Another explosion was reported at the city’s Ramot junction. “Following the explosion that occurred near a junction at the entrance to [&h...
BERLIN (AA) – Muslim gravestones were vandalized in northern Germany, the head of an Islamic association said Tuesday. “We have received some visuals showing that some Muslim gravestones in the Stocken Cemetery in the city northern state of Lower Saxony’s city of Hannover were vandalized,” the leader of the Shura Association, Recep Bilge...
ANKARA (AA) – A powerful earthquake jolted Türkiye’s northwestern Duzce province early Wednesday, leaving a total of 35 people injured in the region, including in Istanbul, according to the country’s health minister. In a Twitter post, Fahrettin Koca said a total of 32 people were injured in Duzce, where the quake’s epicenter was located...
Cianjur, Indonesia — AFP Rescuers were still searching for survivors buried under rubble after an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed buildings. As bodybags emerged from collapsed buildings in Indonesia’s most populous province, rescue eff...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): Around 10 soldiers were killed and others wounded early Tuesday when militants attacked an army position in western Chad, the presidential office said. The attack took place near Ngouboua in the Lake Chad area, a vast marshy region shared by Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria that has been battered by Boko Haram [&h...
DUHOK, Iraq (AA) – At least four people were killed and 26 injured when a gas explosion ripped through a bakery located above a student dormitory in Iraq’s Duhok province, health authorities said early Tuesday. Health officials in Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said the injured have been hospitalized. Last week, an explos...
ANKARA (AA) – The Iranian football team on Monday refused to sing their national anthem before the match against England in the 2022 FIFA World Cup to protest the death of Mahsa Amini. In addition, some sections of the Iranian fans at the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar’s Ar-Rayyan booed their own anthem for the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – An unarmed Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli army fire in the northern West Bank on Monday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said the Palestinian succumbed to his critical injuries after being shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces in Jenin city. The circumstances of his death, however, ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Two prominent Iranian actresses have been arrested on charges of “conspiracy and collusion” amid sweeping protests that have rocked the country in recent months. Katayoun Riahi and Hengameh Ghaziani were both arrested a day after being summoned by judicial authorities in a probe over their social media posts. According to r...
