By Anadolu Agency Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday a state of emergency for three months in 10 provinces hit by Monday’s massive earthquakes in the country’s south. “Based on the authority given to us by Article 119 of the Constitution, we decided to declare a state of emergency,” Erdogan said at the State

People look amid rubble as the search for survivors continues following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, February 7, 2023. Photographer Umit Bektas By Reuters Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Tuesday that the death toll from the earthquakes centred in southeastern Turkey rose to 3,419, bringing the total including those killed in Syria to

By Anadolu Agency At least 1,014 people were killed and 7,003 others injured in 10 provinces after strong earthquakes jolted southern Türkiye on Monday, the country’s disaster agency’s head Yunus Sezer said. Early Monday morning, a strong 7.7 earthquake, centered in the Pazarcik district, jolted Kahramanmaras and heavily affected several provinces including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir,

People and emergency teams rescue a person on a stretcher from a collapsed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. (IHA agency via AP) By The Associated Press A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with members of the ruling United Russia political party to discuss international cooperation and the support of compatriots abroad, in Moscow, Russia, February 3, 2023. Photographer Yuri Kochetkov By Reuters Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a two-day visit to Mali this week, the Malian foreign

File Photo/Somali Times Uneducated defence minister sign agreement with UAE to manage security of Somalia The Minister of the Interior, Federal Affairs, and Reconciliation is the Honorable Ahmed Moallim Fiqi and a few other ministers who rejected the colonisation agreement that would have forced the Somali government to lose control of its security obligations that

By Anadolu Agency Thousands of people took to the streets in Israeli cities Saturday for a fifth straight week to protest the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning proposed judicial reforms. Demonstrators from non-governmental organizations, lawyers, and technology sectors staged the protests. Police closed roads leading to squares in Tel Aviv during the day

By Anadolu Agency China’s foreign ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction” at the US for shooting down of its balloons over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday. “China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US’s use of force to attack civilian unmanned aircraft. The Chinese side has repeatedly informed the US side after verification that the

Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf salutes during the playing of Pakistan’s national anthem at the Joint Staff Headquarters in Rawalpindi November 27, 2007. Reuters/Mian Khursheed By Reuters Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf died on Sunday following a prolonged illness at a hospital in Dubai, after years in self-imposed exile. Pakistan’s military and the country’s mission in

In this photo provided by Brian Branch, a large balloon drifts above the Kingstown, N.C. area, with an airplane and its contrail seen below it. The United States says it is a Chinese spy balloon moving east over America at an altitude of about 60,000 feet (18,600 meters), but China insists the balloon is just