Jakarta, Indonesia – (AFP): At least nine bodies have been found after a ferry sank off the coast of an Indonesian island due to bad weather, a search and rescue official said Thursday. The KM Cahaya Arafah capsized in waters off Indonesia’s Ternate island on Monday evening, prompting a search and rescue operation for 13 […]
ANKARA (AA) – An Israeli air raid on Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least three soldiers, Syrian state media reported Thursday. The missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and struck military installations, said the Syrian News Agency (SANA). Seven troops were also wounded and the attacked facilities suffered ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian regime policemen were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in an attack targeting their patrol in the southwestern governorate of Daraa, according to the regime’s news agency, SANA. “An armed group attacked a police patrol with light weapons, followed by the explosion of an explosive device, ...
U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday morning and is “experiencing very mild symptoms,” the White House said in a statement. “He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary. “He has begun taking [Pfizer’s Covid-19 pill] Paxlovid...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a senior Hamas leader in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, according to his son. No reason was provided for Al-Rajoub’s detention. The Hamas leader was released by Israeli forces in January after eight months in administrative detention. The policy of administrative det...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan Army divers on Tuesday joined the rescue operation for over two dozen passengers after a boat capsized in the fast-flowing Indus River. The death toll from Monday’s incident jumped to 22 as rescuers fished out one more body from the river, miles away from the accident site, local broadcaster Geo [&...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 22 people were killed and 33 others injured in a deadly road crash in southern Egypt on Tuesday, according to local media. A passenger bus hit a trailer truck on the Desert Road near the Minya province, Youm7 news portal reported. Authorities said the accident occurred when the bus with […]
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 […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar in Somalia on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]
