Dashain, the longest-running festival in Nepal, started yesterday. City residents, who want to go on holiday for the 2-week festival, are leaving the capital. Terminals and roads were filled with passengers. Despite the fact that the number of people leaving the city for the holidays was three times larger in previous years prior to Covid-19, […]
Spectacular light shows have been held every day since October 1 at the China Pavilion of Expo 2020 Dubai with 150 drones participating. The shows are expected to be staged every night until February 10 next year at the China Pavilion, one of the largest pavilions at the expo, according to Guo Jinyuan, overseas sales […]
The Popocatepetl volcano launched a steam column of approximately 1,500 meters, located in the Mexican state of Mexico and on the border of the cities of Morelos and Puebla. The Mexican National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred), stated that three separate explosions registered in Popocatepetl at 01:17, 07:55 and 12:58 local time. Following the eruptions, […]
Trucks waiting to leave the country at Edirne’s İpsala Border Gate between Turkey and Greece formed an 8-kilometer queue. Immigrants were caught in the truck they were getting on illegally. Truck driver Necmi Barka, speaking to the IHA reporter, said that he was carrying a load to Thessaloniki, Greece, that he got in line in […]
In the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, 12 people were killed and 32 injured after a bus carrying 60 passengers collided with a truck to avoid hitting stray animals. Police Officer Yamuna Prasad said that more casualties feared as several of the injured remain in serious condition. The treatment of the injured continues at the […]
The novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar before fleeing […]
The airport in La Palma has been closed due to volcanic ash spreading on the runway, according to the Spanish Airports Authority AENA. The runways should be cleaned-up in order to make the airport operative again, AEANA spokesperson said. The airport, which had previously been closed on September 25, has now been closed for the […]
At least 20 people were killed and 300 wounded in a 5.9 magnitude earthquake with a shallow depth of fifteen kilometers that struck Harnai, Balochistan province of Pakistan. According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), most of the deceased were reported to be children. Local sources suggest that at least 70 houses were collapsed. […]
Archaeologists, who have been excavating in Bursa’s Iznik district for a while, discovered a new Roman-era basilica that will shed light on history. In the olive field, 2,200-year-old sarcophagi consisting of dozens of tombs and a basilica estimated to be built 1500 years ago were discovered. It was also revealed that treasure hunters have been […]
Jazeera Airways passenger plane, which took off from Kuwait, made an emergency landing at Trabzon airport in Turkey on mid-flight due to a bomb threat. The air traffic suspended temporarily at the airport, where passengers were evacuated from the plane and went under inspection. No explosives have been found so far in the searches conducted […]