Author: Anadolu Agency
Thousands of protesters demonstrated Saturday across Israel to demand a hostage swap deal with Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, according to media reports. Israelis, including families of hostages held in Gaza, demonstrated in several areas of Tel Aviv and surrounding regions, demanding an immediate deal to release the hostages, said Israeli broadcasting authority, KAN. “A government that sends its children to die in Hamas tunnels does not deserve to remain in power,” a relative of one of the captives in Gaza said at a news conference during the protest near the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, according to the…
At least 16 Palestinians were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting homes in different parts of the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning. Medical sources told Anadolu that 11 Palestinians were killed when two homes in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza were struck by Israeli warplanes. Separately, five Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on an area east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, they added. Meanwhile, witnesses in northern Gaza reported that the Israeli army has demolished dozens of homes in the Al-Fakhoura neighborhood west of the Jabalia refugee camp. Since Oct. 5, Israel…
An explosion overnight at a Russian factory injured at least one person, with preliminary assessments pointing to a drone crash, local authorities said on Sunday. Aleksandr Brechalov, head of the Republic of Udmurtia (Udmurt), said on Telegram they got a report in the morning of an overnight explosion at a factory in the region’s administrative capital Izhevsk, about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from Russia’s border with Ukraine, and some 968 km (601 mi) east of Moscow. Saying that according to initial assessments a drone crashed in the factory, Brechalov stated there was no serious damage besides broken windows. All emergency…
Moldova on Sunday condemned “false and manipulative” remarks on the country made by Moscow’s envoy, urging him instead to ensure the withdrawal of Russian troops from part of Moldova. Earlier, Oleg Ozerov, Russia’s ambassador to Moldova-a country of some 2.5 million bordering Ukraine-claimed on public radio station Radio Rossii that its economic development and prosperity depend largely on gas supplies from Moscow, accusing “all kinds of external forces” of militarizing the country. “The statement that the economic situation of the Republic of Moldova depends on trade ties with the Russian Federation is a serious distortion of reality,” the Moldovan Foreign…
Moldova on Sunday condemned “false and manipulative” remarks on the country made by Moscow’s envoy, urging him instead to ensure the withdrawal of Russian troops from part of Moldova. Earlier, Oleg Ozerov, Russia’s ambassador to Moldova-a country of some 2.5 million bordering Ukraine-claimed on public radio station Radio Rossii that its economic development and prosperity depend largely on gas supplies from Moscow, accusing “all kinds of external forces” of militarizing the country. “The statement that the economic situation of the Republic of Moldova depends on trade ties with the Russian Federation is a serious distortion of reality,” the Moldovan Foreign…
A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Japan’s Koshima region on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake struck at an intermediate depth of 70.6 kilometers (43.8 miles) beneath the epicenter at 9:16 p.m. local time (1216GMT), with no tsunami warning issued, according to the agency. According to preliminary seismic data, the quake was most likely felt by many people near the epicenter. However, there was no reported damage.
Turkish Trade Minister Ömer Bolat on Monday will embark on a two-day visit to Iraq, seeking to boost economic cooperation. Bolat’s visit, accompanied by delegations from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and Turkish Contractors Association (TMB), will include stops in the capital Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, said Trade Ministry sources. Accompanied by business representatives, Bolat will work to deepen trade and investment ties with Iraq, one of Türkiye’s key trading partners. The visit aims to promote Turkish contractors’ involvement in Iraqi infrastructure projects, particularly the Development Road Project, a trade route project linking the two countries with…
England on Sunday secured a comfortable 5-0 win over a 10-man Ireland in the UEFA Nations League. Neither national football team were able to break the deadlock in the first half at Wembley Stadium. In the 51st minute, Jude Bellingham was brought down in the penalty box by Liam Scales. Scales got his second yellow card and was sent off, leaving his team to play the remainder of the game with 10 men. Harry Kane scored the opener for England with a penalty kick in the 53rd minute. After three minutes, Anthony Gordon doubled the lead from close range, assisted…
Maritime traffic in the Istanbul Strait was temporarily suspended in both directions Sunday after a 114-meter (374-foot) tanker faced rudder failure. The vessel, the Nazan, faced the issue while en route from Russia to Kocaeli near Istanbul on Sunday evening, the Turkish Coastal Safety Directorate posted on X. The directorate dispatched rescue tugboats to assist, it added. Authorities continue their efforts to resolve the situation and ensure safe navigation in the strait.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, an internationally acclaimed Turkish scholar on ancient Sumeria, died on Sunday at the age of 110. Çığ, born in 1914, passed away in intensive care at a hospital in Mezitli in Mersin, southern Türkiye. She was known for her research in Sumerology and her contributions to the field of ancient Near Eastern studies. Sumerology is the study of the history, language, and culture of the Sumerians, the earliest known human civilization, emerging in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.