Heavy rain caused severe floods and damage in southern parts of Croatia yesterday. The historic city of Dubrovnik, where a child was slightly injured after falling into an open sewage pit, received an average monthly rainfall in just 2 hours. The drainage system failed to carry the large amount of water in a short time […]
Six Palestinians, including a baby, were killed in an airstrike by Israeli forces on a house belonging to the Al-Henawi family in the Jibaliya refugee camp in the north of the region. Many Palestinians injured in the attack were taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital. A total of 40,988 civilians have been killed and 94,825 more […]
A funeral ceremony was held in the West Bank city of Nablus for the late 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi who was shot dead by the Israeli army during a protest against settlement expansion in Beita. Turkish Consul General to Jerusalem Ismail Çobanoğlu also attended the funeral.
According to authorities, Türkie’s Cappadocia region hosted 2,922,485 local and foreign guests in 8 months. The Cappadocia region, famous for its fairy chimneys, interesting underground and aboveground formations, museums, and historical sites, was added to the UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage List in 1985.
The 375-meter Phong Chau bridge over the Red River in the northern Phu Tho province of Vietnam collapsed due to the wind force of Typhoon Yagi. Authorities said that 10 vehicles and 2 scooters on the bridge fell into the river, 3 people were injured and 13 people were missing. Typhoon Yagi, which made landfall […]
Lightning struck an area where a concert was being given despite heavy rainfall yesterday in Mooka, Tochigi, Japan. Local authorities announced that 9 people, consisting of cleaning staff, were taken to the hospital with burning and numbness on their bodies but their conditions were not life-threatening. The concert was attended by 12,000 people.
Israel carried out an airstrike on military facilities in the rural region of Syria’s Hama city, killing 14 people and injuring 43 more. An unnamed Syrian military source said that an airstrike was launched from northwest Lebanon and that air defense systems shot some down.
Pope Francis has arrived in East Timor, the last stop of his 12-day Asia Pacific tour. The Catholic leader was greeted with affection by thousands of people in the capital, Dili, and a welcome ceremony was organized for him in the Presidential Palace. Pope Francis is the second Pope to visit East Timor after Pope […]
The body of Narin Güran, the 8-year-old girl who went missing on August 21st in a village in the Bağlar district of Diyarbakır province in Türkiye and worried the whole country, was found in a sack thrown into a lake in the region. Her body was in a cemetery in a neighboring village today, while […]
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, candidate of centre-leftist National Liberation Front, was re-elected as President of Algeria for the second term. The 78-year-old Algerian President won the presidential race with 94.65 percent of the votes.