ISTANBUL (AA) – A shooting in Washington D. C. on Friday resulted in multiple injuries, according to media reports. Emergency crews responded to northwest Washington D. C. following the shooting that left four or five people wounded, said initial reports. Two men with gunshot wounds arrived at a hospital. One is suspected to be involved [&hell...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (AA) – The death toll in a pickup truck attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, has risen to 15, New Orleans Coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna said Wednesday. “It will take several days to perform all autopsies. Once we complete the autopsies and talk with the next of kin, we will release the identifications of the […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 10 people died and 30 were injured after a vehicle plowed into a New Year crowd in New Orleans’ tourist district in the US state of Louisiana, local authorities said. Witnesses told CBS News that a truck drove into crowds at high speed before the driver exited and opened fire, […]
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, has died at the age of 100. He was President from 1977 to 1981. Carter was the oldest living former president. It was during his presidency that former USSR invaded Afghanistan. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his post-presidency humanitarian work. Carter spent his last […]
ANKARA (AA) – South Korean authorities declared 177 passengers and crew dead, two missing, and two rescued after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday. Earlier, officials of the Jeolla Fire Department, while briefing passengers’ families at the airport, said that “out of the 181 passengers, most are presumed dead,...
MOSCOW (AA) – An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau on Wednesday, the Kazakh Emergency Ministry said, adding that there were 25 survivors. According to the ministry, 62 passengers and fiv...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration has claimed that at least 46 people have been killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Ba...
BALIKESIR, Türkiye (AA) – A blast at an explosives production facility in Türkiye’s western Balikesir province Tuesday left 12 people dead and several others injured, according to authorities. According to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, 12 were killed and 4 others injured in the explosion in Karesi district. Earlier, Balikesir Governor...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump raised concerns Saturday about “ridiculous” tolls for US ships passing through the Panama Canal. He threatened to demand the canal’s return to American control if Panama failed to address the issue. Trump described the Panama Canal as a vital national asset for the US in a post on ...
A mass grave has been discovered near Damascus which reportedly contains the remains of at least 100,000 people killed by the Bashar al-Assad regime. According to Syrian Emergency Task Force, a US-based advocacy group, the site, located in al-Qutayfah — 40 kilometres north of the capital — holds a chilling testament to the regime’s bruta...
