Author: Anadolu Agency
Germany-based software company SAP became Europe’s most valuable firm on Monday, surpassing Denmark’s pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. SAP shares increased by about 0.8% on Monday as of 1215GMT with its market value reaching around €311 billion ($336 billion). Novo Nordisk’s shares, on the other hand, lost around 2.2% in the same period, while the company’s market value fell to around €275 billion. SAP shares, which provide companies with application software such as sales and supply chain, rose about 40% in 2024 and 6.5% this year. The software company’s revenues rose above expectations last year, thanks in particular to the high…
Ukraine said on Sunday that at least three people were killed and over 10 injured due to an overnight Russian drone attack on the country’s capital Kyiv. “According to available information, three people died, including a five-year-old child. Another 10 were injured. Among the dead, a father and his little daughter,” said a statement by the Kyiv City Military Administration on Telegram. The air raid alert over the Ukrainian capital lasted for more than five hours, starting at 8.39 p.m. local time (1739GMT) on Saturday evening, the statement said. The attack damaged infrastructure, including residential buildings, in the city’s Podilskyi,…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday called for making efforts on Gaza on the basis of Egypt’s plan, diplomatic sources said. Egypt’s Gaza plan, which is supported by all members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), offers a constructive framework, Fidan said in his address at the OIC and Arab League Gaza Contact Group meeting in Egypt’s capital Cairo, the sources added. Stressing that genocide, forced displacement and apartheid are still continuing in Gaza while this meeting is in progress, Fidan said the Israeli airstrikes on March 18 revealed that Israel has a more comprehensive agenda. Emphasizing that…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Sunday of using water as a “weapon of war” to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “The (Israeli) occupation used another weapon to increase suffering, displacement, and indeed the slow death of our people, by halting all basic services, especially water, and preventing access to humanitarian aid in flagrant contravention of international human rights conventions and international resolutions,” Abbas said in a speech marking World Water Day. Abbas called on the international community to take “practical and radical steps” to find just solutions regarding the exacerbating water crisis in Gaza, the official news…
The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognise more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighbourhoods to independent settlement status. The decision by Israel’s security cabinet was a show of “disregard for international legitimacy and its resolutions”, said a statement from the Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry. The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, is home to about three million Palestinians as well as nearly 500,000 Israelis living in settlements that are illegal under international law. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right leader and settler who was behind the…
The Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee on Sunday expressed “deep concern” over the breakdown of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement released after a meeting in Cairo with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. The announcement followed discussions between foreign ministers from Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Egypt, Türkiye, Indonesia, Bahrain, and the UAE’s minister of state, alongside the secretaries-general of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The committee underscored the urgency of addressing the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories. It expressed “deep concern” over the Gaza ceasefire breakdown, which has led to significant…
France on Friday condemned an attack on UN personnel in Gaza that killed a United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) employee and left two French nationals working for the UN seriously injured. “France expresses its dismay after two French nationals, United Nations employees, were seriously injured following strikes that hit two buildings housing United Nations personnel in Gaza, which also caused the death of a UNOPS employee,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We extend our support and solidarity to our compatriots and their families; we are fully mobilized to provide them with assistance.” The statement added: “As…
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza on Friday strongly condemned the Israeli army’s destruction of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, which was built by Türkiye and operated by local authorities as a cancer treatment center. In a statement, the ministry described Israel’s detonation of the hospital building, located in central Gaza, as a “heinous crime” committed by the Israeli army after using it “as a headquarters for its forces throughout its occupation of the so-called Netzarim Corridor” area to separate Gaza’s north from its south. “The Ministry affirms that this criminal behavior by the occupier is consistent with the…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to attend the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab League Gaza Contact Group Ministerial Committee Meeting, which will be hosted by Egypt in Cairo on Sunday. According to diplomatic sources, Fidan will reaffirm Türkiye’s support for the Gaza reconstruction plan adopted at the Arab League Extraordinary Summit on March 4. He is also expected to emphasize the urgent need to implement the next phases of the ceasefire in Gaza and ensure its permanence. Additionally, he will highlight the critical importance of resuming humanitarian aid deliveries to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the…
At least 16 Palestinians, including six children, were killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip. Medical officials confirmed to Anadolu that the children alongside three Palestinians lost their lives when Israeli forces bombed the Mashharawi family home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Two more Palestinians were killed in another Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Maghraqa area in central Gaza, according to medical sources. These attacks are part of an ongoing Israeli offensive that has intensified in recent days. Meanwhile, another Israeli airstrike hit western Rafah in southern Gaza. Initial reports have…