Hacıosman Forest, a protected flooded forest in Samsun’s Çarşamba district, was recorded at close range. The forest, which consists of trees such as pointed fruit ash and plain maple and hosts a rich variety of plant and animal species on a total area of 121 hectares, is considered a rare beauty not only in Türkiye […]
Mountaineers and nature enthusiasts in Gümüşhane, Türkiye faced a challenging trek amid heavy snow, enduring blizzards reaching over 1 meter in parts of the Kalis Plateau, nestled at the base of Karadağ. Despite the daunting conditions, they embarked on a nature walk event, reveling in the stunning winter vistas. Nineteen athletes completed the challenging […]
Hundreds of pro-Palestinians gathered somewhere between Gaziantep’s Nizip district and Şanlıurfa’s Birecik district in Türkiye to demonstrate their solidarity with Palestinian people. Drawing attention to the oppression of all Palestinians in the Gaza strip, especially children, and protesting against Israel, the crowd released around 4,000 pigeons, which are the symbol of peace, into the sky. […]
Japanese authorities announced that the death toll increased to 168 and the number of injured increased to 565, 8 days after the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that occurred in Ishikawa province and was also felt strongly in Toyama, Niigata, Fukui, and Gifu provinces. The search for 323 people who have not been heard from continues. The snowfall […]
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 experienced an emergency exit door detachment right after takeoff, prompting the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to order the grounding of 171 Boeing aircraft. Boeing swiftly responded, emphasizing safety as their foremost priority and urging immediate inspections on 737-9 aircraft with similar configurations. Turkish Airlines (THY) promptly withdrew […]
Today, NASA embarked on an ambitious lunar expedition, launching the Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This mission carries the Astrobotic Peregrine lander, marking NASA’s first Moon landing mission since 1972. The Peregrine, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, aims to transport scientific equipment to the lunar […]
An LPG station in South Korea’s Gangwon province, specifically in the Pyeongchang region, was rocked by a significant explosion triggered by a gas leak. The resulting fire swiftly engulfed nearby structures and vehicles. According to the Gangwon Fire Department’s report on the January 1 incident at around 20:41, 5 individuals sustained injuries. Of these, 2 […]
A bomb attack was carried out on a police vehicle during a polio vaccination drive in the Bajaur district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The attack killed 5 officers and left nearly 20 others injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Some polio vaccination workers and security officials were attacked by the […]
The ski season started at the Atabarı Ski Center on Mersivan Mountain at an altitude of 2,200 meters in Artvin as the snow thickness reached 65 centimeters after heavy snowfall. The ski center, which has been in service since 2009, has 2 tracks, a 595-meter-long chairlift and a 159-meter-long teleski. It has been made ready […]
In the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces targeted a vehicle in an air attack today, claiming the lives of two journalists. Among the deceased was Hamza Dahdouh, a photojournalist and the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza Bureau Chief Wael Dahdouh. This tragic loss compounds the family’s earlier suffering, having lost […]