Author: Anadolu Agency
An ambulance helicopter crashed into a hospital in Türkiye’s southwestern Muğla province, killing four people, according to province’s Governor Idris Akbıyık. Two pilots, one doctor, and one health care worker lost their lives as the helicopter crashed into the Training and Research Hospital building in Mugla’s Mentese district. In a post on X, country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his sorrow over the deaths and offered his condolences. Fire, health and police teams as well as personnel from Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) were dispatched to the scene of the incident. Noting that there is heavy fog, Akbıyık…
Ukraine said on Sunday that at least two people were killed due to an overnight Russian drone attack in the country’s southern city of Kherson. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in an initial statement on Telegram that the overnight drone attack in the region killed a man in the city’s Dniprovskyi district after being mortally wounded. Prokudin later reported that the body of a woman was also found in the Dniprovskyi district, where search and rescue efforts are being conducted at a residential building that caught fire due to the attack. Ukraine’s Air Force claimed in a separate statement that its…
Another 24 Palestinians, including six children, were killed and several others injured on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting various locations across the Gaza Strip. According to a medical source at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, eight bodies, including that of two children and two women, along with several injured individuals, were brought to the hospital following an Israeli airstrike on the Musa Bin Nusair School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported that airstrikes on the school, which housed displaced families, caused fires and extensive damage to the building. Five Palestinians, including four children, were…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Sunday that President Salome Zourabichvili must leave her office before Dec. 29, as anti-government protests continue in the South Caucasus nation for almost a month. “President Zourabichvili will have to leave office on Dec. 29. Let’s see where she continues her life-behind bars or outside. I believe she has enough sense to avoid violating the Criminal Code,” Kobakhidze told a press briefing in the capital Tbilisi, public broadcaster 1TV reported. The premier’s remarks come a day after Zourabichvili reiterated her calls for new elections in the country, as well as her readiness to…
Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, a fresh 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, a Bangladeshi official said on Sunday. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingya in its southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. Most of the Rohingya Muslims fled from Myanmar in August 2017 in a military crackdown. The Rohingya infiltration has also been facilitated by corruption on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as some people help the Rohingya cross border in exchange for money. Md. Touhid Hossain, foreign affairs adviser, told reporters about his visit to Bangkok, where an informal consultation…
India and Kuwait on Sunday agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship to a “strategic partnership,” according to an official statement. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during his two-day visit, which is the first visit of an Indian prime minister to the gulf nation in 43 years. “The leaders recalled the strong historical and friendly ties between the two countries and re-affirmed their full commitment to further expanding and deepening bilateral cooperation,” the Indian Foreign Ministry said. “In this context, they agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship to a ‘Strategic Partnership’.” Prime…
Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday said Syria’s territorial integrity is “non-negotiable,” and reaffirmed that there’s no place for the PKK/YPG terror group in the country. “This is not a time to wait and see. We must take action. The territorial integrity of Syria is non-negotiable. We want to reiterate that there is no place for the PKK/YPG in Syria,” Fidan said in a joint news conference with Ahmed al Sharaa, leader of the new Syrian administration, in the capital Damascus. “This terrorist organization is occupying the lands of the Syrian people and stealing their natural resources. In today’s…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Moscow, the Kremlin announced on Sunday. “Vladimir Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin. On the Russian side, Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov took part in the meeting. Robert Fico is in Moscow on a working visit,” the statement said. In a separate statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “we can easily assume that all issues of the international agenda and the future of the transit of the Russian gas via Ukraine will be discussed” in the meeting scheduled several days ago. Serbian President…
Tens of thousands of Serbians gathered on Sunday in the capital Belgrade demanding accountability over the Nov. 1 collapse of a canopy at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad that killed 15 people. Farmers, artists and tens of thousands of people gathered at the Slavija Square on the call of students and farmer unions. “Your hands are bloody,” read one of the banners at the protest venue. People also carried signs that read: “Do you have a clear conscience?” and “Students are the voice of understanding.” President Aleksandar Vucic lifted the secrecy of all documents related…
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov discussed over phone on Sunday the latest developments in Gaza and Syria, as well as bilateral relations, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Egyptian diplomat highlighted Cairo’s “intensive efforts” to achieve an “immediate and lasting cease-fire, enabling the delivery of humanitarian aid to the strip.” Egypt, besides Qatar and the U.S., is part of mediation efforts aimed to end Israel’s war in Gaza that continues since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Regarding the situation in Syria, where a new administration has taken charge after the…