Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): An Israeli missile strike early Sunday killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighbourhood home to much of Syria’s security apparatus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural centre, had killed 15 people including civilian...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP): Israel accused arch-foe Iran of orchestrating the expulsion of a top diplomat from the African Union summit on Saturday, with the help of Algeria and South Africa. The incident occurred on the first day of the summit, where leaders are discussing a slew of challenges facing the continent, including a record [&helli...
HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – A 45-year-old man was rescued from the rubble in Türkiye’s Hatay province on Friday, more than 278 hours after the initial tremor struck southern provinces in the country. Hakan Yasinoglu was found by search and rescue teams alive under the rubble in Defne district, in yet another miraculous rescue 11 days […...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A day after tax authorities’ search ended at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices in India, the Ministry of Finance on Friday said that Income Tax Department conducted a survey of a prominent international media company and found “discrepancies and inconsistencies” in tax records. “The survey revealed that ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced the suspension of its work in Burkina Faso after two employees were killed in an attack by armed men. “Following the attack in which two of our staff were killed on 8 February in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, we are suspending all our activities […]
Conakry, Guinea (AFP): Two people were killed in clashes between anti-junta protesters and security forces in Guinea on Thursday, a municipal official and relatives of the deceased confirmed, with the country’s opposition coalition reporting “many arrests” and injuries from live ammunition. Protesters took to the streets to d...
Istanbul, Turkiye (AFP): The death toll from the earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkiye and Syria has exceeded 41,000 as the United Nations appealed for $1 billion to address a growing humanitarian crisis. Eleven days after the quake — now one of the 10 deadliest in the past 100 years — Turkish rescuers pulled […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA/AFP) – At least seven people, including three suspected militants, were killed and several others injured after heavily-armed terrorists stormed the police headquarters in the port city of Karachi on Friday evening, officials and local media reported. A group of at three assailants who stormed the compound at 7:10 pm (031...
AFRIN, Syria (AA) – Volunteers and philanthropists have contributed to securing tents for thousands of people affected by the earthquake in the town of Jindires in the Syrian city of Afrin. Jindires was the area most affected by the earthquake as hundreds of houses were damaged and many others were demolished. More than 500 people [&hell...
KAHRAMANMARAS, Türkiye (AA) – Azerbaijan has established a tent city in Turkiye’s Kahramanmaras province, the epicenter of the last week’s twin earthquakes, with volunteers offering hot meals to victims. The tent city manager, Colonel Halig Huseynov, said that right after the earthquake they moved to the region with a 720-person se...
