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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 ...
KYIV, Ukraine – Some 20,800 Russian soldiers have so far been killed in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military has claimed. Ukrainian forces have destroyed 169 Russian aircraft, 150 helicopters, 134 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 802 tanks, 2,063 armored vehicles, and 386 artillery systems, according to the Ukrainian General Staff’s latest update. ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of Palestinians suffered temporary asphyxiation during clashes with Israeli army in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, according to witnesses. The violence erupted after local residents in the town of Burqa, north of Nablus, organized an anti-settlement rally in response to a march organized by Israeli s...
KABUL (AA): At least six people were killed and 11 others injured after multiple blasts hit a boys school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an official of Taliban-led interim government said. The explosions targeted Abdul Raheem Shaheed High School, which is located in the city’s district 18, said Khalid Zadran, a Kabul police s...
KABUL (AA): More than 130 children have died from the measles epidemic in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. After the US army withdrew from the country, international aid was cut off and the economic crisis deepened. Children are the most affected by war, hunger and poverty. At least 16,000 children have been infected […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Sardar Tanveer Ilyas of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was elected as the new prime minister of Azad Kashmir on Monday. Ilyas, a businessman and close friend of Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, was elected unopposed, state-run Pakistan Television reported. The opposition alliance led by the Pakis...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish army killed 13 PKK men in northern Syria, near Turkiye’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said on Twitter that the “terrorists” attempted to attack an area falling under Turkiye’s Operation Peace Spring zone. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of ...
TORONTO, Canada (AA) – Five people were injured in a mosque shooting Saturday in Toronto, according to police sources. A group of men, who had finished midnight prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, was randomly attacked in a drive-by shooting in the Scarborough district, said Toronto Police Department spokesperson David Rydzik. At l...
