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Main contenders of the Turkish elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, casted their votes in separate stations on Sunday in one of the most consequential elections in modern Turkey’s 100-year history. Voters stand in a queue outside a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey May 14, 2023. (Reuters) Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu voted at polling […]

On Sunday, millions will cast their ballots in one of the most critical elections in Türkiye’s recent history as incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan challenges two opposition candidates, and parties vie for parliamentary seats Workers print ballots at a printing house, in the capital Ankara, Türkiye, May 8, 2023. (AA Photo) Three candidates will run […]

A renewed political dispute between the federal government of Somalia and the Puntland federal member state, and a failure of the fragile reforms to boost revenue collection and fiscal transparency, could endanger Somalia’s hope for full debt relief from the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral lenders by the end of the year, officials and […]

Ukraine has released what it says is helmet-camera footage from its special forces clearing a Russian position in Bakhmut. Kyiv says it has stopped the enemy and pushed it back, with President Zelenskyy telling his people the Russians are mentally prepared for defeat. Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city in the […]

Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza toward Israel early on Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets in the enclave overnight, as violence spilled over into the occupied West Bank on a fifth day of fighting. A man picks up a child at the site of an Israeli airstrike amid Israel-Gaza fighting in Deir […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to hold his final campaign rally for this Sunday’s polls with Maghrib (sunset) prayers at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul on Saturday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visits Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, one of Istanbul’s main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Türkiye, July 19, […]

No injuries, but greenhouse damaged as West Bank settlement bloc and Beit Shemesh bombarded for first time this round of fighting, ending over 10 hours of relative quiet A municipality worker inspects the damage to an apartment building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Rehovot, Israel, […]

ROK military says launch paves way for mass production of tactical missile, even as development continues on upgrade The launch of a KTSSM precision strike missile (date unknown) | Image: ROK Agency for Defense Development (ADD) South Korea has conducted a live-fire test of a homegrown tactical guided missile designed to counter artillery threats from enemies […]

Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip engaged in a substantial exchange of hostilities Thursday, marking the third day of a severe escalation of violence, resulting in the death of 29 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave and one in Israel. A man walks at the site of an Israeli airstrike amid Israel-Gaza fighting […]

Over last winter, Ukraine successfully withstood Russia’s months-long campaign targeting energy infrastructure with barrages of missiles and drones. But that achievement came with a cost. Rescuers dismantle the rubble of a destroyed apartment building that was damaged as a result of a deadly missile attack by the Russian military in Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, on April […]