Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigeria’s electoral commission has staged mock biometric accreditation for voters ahead of this month’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Nigerians go to the polls on February 25 in order to elect a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari who steps down after the maximum constitutionally-permissible tw...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has experienced the “biggest disaster” in the last century after the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a strong earthquake hit southern provinces on Monday morning. “Tonight at 04:17, we were shaken by the biggest disaster since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake that we...
ANKARA (AA) – The earthquake that originated in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras early on Monday caused serious damage to energy infrastructure in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, the country’s energy and natural resources minister said. An earthquake of 7.4 magnitude occurred at 04.17 a.m. local time in the Pazarcik d...
Bawku, Ghana (AFP): Standing near the dry riverbed that marks Ghana’s northern border, Alima can see her hamlet, lying in Burkina Faso less than two kilometres away. Even though her home is just a short walk away, she says she will never go back there to live. One night last year, gunmen arrived in the […]
Istanbul, Turkey (AFP): A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus, Egypt and Iraq. One of the largest quakes to strike Turkey in a century wiped out entire sections of […]
Jericho, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces on Monday killed five Palestinians in a raid near Jericho in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli official said. Hamas confirmed its fighters were among the dead, saying in a statement the Gaza-based group was mourning members of its military wing killed “in an armed clash with the Zio...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, has condemned acts of hate and violence against the Christian community in East Jerusalem. Pizzaballa said a Jewish American broke into the Church of the Flagellation on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s Old City and vandalized a statue of Jesus. H...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to resign in protest against the government’s “lenient” response to rocket fire from Gaza. The private Channel 13, citing sources close to Ben-Gvir, said the minister was critical of the government’s “lenient” response to rocket fire from Gaza and the slow evac...
MOSCOW (AA) – Head of the Russian upper chamber of parliament called on members of European parliaments on Saturday to publicly condemn the incidents of desecration of the Quran. In a post on Telegram, Valentina Matvienko said Russian lawmakers voiced strong protest against the recent Islamophobic actions in Sweden and the Netherlands. &...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s nuclear agency chief has again hit out at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), terming its latest report on activities at the underground Fordow nuclear facility “unprofessional”. Mohammad Eslami, in an interview, said the UN nuclear watchdog acted unprofessionally by disclosing confidenti...
