PARIS (AA) – Emmanuel Macron has won a second term as French president, according to the full results released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday’s run-off election. Macron, the candidate of La Republique En Marche! Party, received 58.6% or 18,779,809 votes. Turnout was 72.37%, according to the ministry, the lowest since 1969. Macron ent...
ANKARA – A Turkish soldier was killed during a military operation in northern Iraq, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry has stated. Furkan Gok, an infantry specialist sergeant, was killed in clashes with PKK fighters during Turkiye’s recently launched cross-border operation Operation Claw-Lock. Turkiye launched Operation Claw-Lock this w...
GENEVA – Since Russia launched its war in Ukraine two months ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) has verified 162 attacks on healthcare facilities. As a result, patients with chronic conditions face significant barriers to care. According to preliminary findings from the WHO survey on national health needs, one in every three (30%) of the...
AL-BAB/AZAZ, Syria (AA) – A civilian was killed and five were wounded in two separate terrorist attacks in northern Syria on Friday. A car bomb went off in Al-Bab city’s Zamzam neighborhood, killing one civilian, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent. Firefighters rushed to the site to put out the fire caused by the explosion [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Two senior PKK members were killed in northern Syria, Turkish security sources said Friday. In an operation led by Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Rodin Abdulkadir Muhammed and Ranya Henan of the PKK operating in the Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) region of Syria were killed, said the sources. Rodin Abdulkadir Muh...
ANKARA (AA) – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that high food prices could force at least 10 million more people into poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. “Today, Russia’s destruction of the Ukrainian economy and its infrastructure is a key factor affecting global commodity prices. The war further exacerbates pre-existin...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia launched a war in the country two months ago. The UN refugee agency said the number of people fleeing Ukraine is now 5,034,439 as it joined in a call for ceasing hostilities in Ukraine ahead of Orthodox Easter. More than 2.8 million […]
ISTANBUL – Taiwan has said that at least 11 Chinese jets crossed into its airspace on Wednesday and were given radio warnings. In a statement, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said 11 aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army entered Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Wednesday. The ADIZ is a buffer zone outside a country’s [...
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s top court on Wednesday stayed demolition of “encroachments” by authorities in the same area of the capital New Delhi where communal violence broke out last week. The bulldozers sent by the local municipality, which is administered by India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), arrived in the Jahangirpuri neighborh...
BURSA, Turkiye (AA) – A roadside bomb killed a prison guard and injured four others in Turkiye’s northwestern Bursa province on Wednesday. A bus carrying security personnel was targeted with an improvised explosive device near a gas station in Bursa’s central Yenikaraman neighborhood, according to Governor Yakup Canbolat. The deceased officer ...
