ANTAKYA (Turkey) (AFP) – A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday rocked Turkey’s southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing three people and sparking fresh panic after a February 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said three people were killed and 213 […]
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The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a statement on Sunday. The acting commerce minister had told Reuters in December that his ministry was working on the […]
The US has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a police compound in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. A group of militants stormed the Karachi Police Office (KPO) located at the Shahrae Faisal on Friday night. At least four people – two Rangers troops, one policeman and a civilian […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Pakistan strongly condemns Israel’s recent decision to legalize nine settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of West Bank. It is a clear and flagrant violation of International law and relevant United Nations resolutions. It further encroaches upon the rights of the people of Palestine. The illegal and unjust […]
ANKARA -UNS/AFP: Rescue teams began to wind down the search for survivors on Monday, a week after an earthquake devastated parts of Turkiye and Syria leaving more than 35,000 dead and millions in dire need of aid. While the focus switched to helping desperate survivors who lack food and shelter, […]
MOSCOW – Wielding Soviet-designed Kalashnikov rifles, a group of Russian women with elaborate manicures and clad in camouflage are drilling different firing positions, first aiming on their knees and then their stomachs. The gym where the women have gathered in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg near the Ural Mountains is […]
ZURICH – The Austrian army has suspended rescue operations in quake-hit Turkiye due to “an increasingly difficult security situation”, its spokesperson said in a tweet on Saturday. Ministry spokesperson Michael Bauer tweeted that the Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit (AFDRU) was available for further rescue operations when the working environment […]
Washington D.C.-UNS : U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) led 45 of their colleagues in writing a bicameral letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Jessica Rosenworcel urging her to examine an expansion of the languages that wireless carriers must support for Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs), […]
WASHINGTON -UNS: Former Federal Minister for Population Welfare and Convener World Minorities Alliance (WMA), Julius Salik also J. Salik on Friday demanded the government of Pakistan to give Hindu minorities of the country to fight the Kashmir Case before India for the just right to freedom of innocent Kashmiris. Recalling […]
MOSCOW (REUTERS) – Russian oil producers increased output by almost 1% in the first week of February from January, despite Western embargoes on Russian fuel, Kommersant daily reported on Thursday, citing anonymous data. The newspaper said producers increased oil and gas condensate output by 0.7% in the first week of […]
