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North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, its second missile provocation this year. (Yonhap/ Korean Central News Agency) The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launch from the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 17:22 p.m. It did not provide other details […]

More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of them arrived earlier this week. Somali refugees who fled recent clashes in Lasscanood, Somaliland area, shelter in the open […]

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country’s worst modern disaster A worker looks on as a heavily quake-damaged building is demolished in Hatay, Turkey on February […]

Minister of Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Murat Kurum announced on Friday that a total of 84,726 buildings were damaged in the Feb. 6 earthquakes, which wreaked havoc in 10 provinces in Türkiye’s south. The minister was speaking at a disaster response center in Adana, one of the 10 provinces. A man looks at excavation […]

Calls for heads to roll in Russian command, as Putin’s hapless brigades are ordered to advance directly to Ukrainian positions where they are blasted by artillery and mines. A Ukrainian tank fires toward Russian position near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on January 26, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov / […]

The United Nations appealed for $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to help earthquake survivors in Türkiye, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. People in an athletic track, which serve as camps for survivors in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Adıyaman, Türkiye, Feb. 16, 2023. (Reuters Photo) Guterres said in a statement that the funds […]

Key developments on Feb. 12:  Russia’s Wagner Group claims it captured Krasna Hora, 6 kilometers north of Bakhmut UK Defense Ministry: Russia likely suffering highest casualties since March Ukraine imposes sanctions against 200 individuals Former Ukrainian governor of Chernivtsi Oblast Serhiy Osachuk (C), 50, now Lieutenant Colonel of the State Border Guard Service, poses inside […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia At least 82 people, including civilians, have been killed in eight days of fighting in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, a medical source said Monday FILE PHOTO Abdimajid Hussein Sugulle, a medical doctor at Manhal Hospital in Lasanod, told Anadolu by phone that more than 82 people were killed during the conflict in […]

In a video message for an international event in the UAE on Tuesday, President Erdoğan hailed the support from the international community after last week’s quakes and said it demonstrated the necessity of permanent international solidarity A woman carries bread taken out of the rubble of her house, in Kahramanmaraş, southeastern Türkiye, Feb. 14, 2023. […]

Vice President Fuat Oktay said late Saturday that at least 24,617 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye last Monday. This number rose to 29,605, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) later on Sunday. The AFAD also said 147,934 others have been evacuated from the region to the […]