ANKARA / MALATYA, Türkiye (AA) – At least one person was killed after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolted Türkiye’s eastern Malatya province on Monday, weeks after two massive tremors shook the region, according to the country’s disaster management agency. Some 69 others were also injured, Yunus Sezer, head of the Disaster and Emergency Ma...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Gunmen killed at least four miners and injured three others in southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials and local media reported. The attack, the latest in a series of similar ambushes, occurred in the remote Harnai district of southwestern Balochistan province, a hub of coalmines located some 169 kilometers (105 miles)...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 44,374 people have died in two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, an official from the nation’s disaster agency said on Sunday. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centered in Kahramanmaras and struck 10 other provinces – Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis, Malatya, Osm...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) – An Arab parliamentary delegation visited the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Sunday to show solidarity with the victims of the Feb. 6 earthquakes that killed thousands in Syria and Türkiye. The visit was the first since 2011 when Syria’s membership in the Cairo-based Arab League was suspended amid a deadly regime crackdown ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israelis were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the military. A military statement said an Israeli vehicle came under fire in the town of Huwara in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces sealed off the area and launched a hunt for the attacker, the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has arrested three Palestinians from the same family in the occupied West Bank, according to a family member. “My uncle, his wife and son were arrested as they were cultivating their farmland” in the town of Umm Lasafa, south of Hebron, Julan Elayyan said. She said Israeli forces […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): A steady flow of taxis has rolled up outside the Ivorian embassy in Tunis in recent days, depositing dozens of migrants who say they no longer feel safe amid an officially sanctioned climate of fear. After a wave of arrests in recent weeks, President Kais Saied gave a speech that critics said […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan reopened a key border crossing with neighboring Afghanistan to all types of traffic on Saturday. The Torkham border, which connects Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, was shut down unilaterally by the interim Taliban administration last week. Th...
HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – Pakistani doctors tending to earthquake victims in Türkiye’s southern Hatay province say their efforts reflect the spirit of brotherhood between the two nations. “Our team is here to support earthquake victims,” Waqas Ahmed, a Pakistani doctor, shared at a tent city set up in Hatay’s Defne district. Ahmed is part of [&hel...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced another CAN$30 million (US$22 million) for those affected by the disastrous earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. The government will match CAN$10 million in donations to the Humanitarian Coalition and provide CAN$20 million in direct relief, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said in...
