Author: Anadolu Agency
Seven Palestinians sustained injuries in an assault on Friday by illegal Israeli settlers on the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, central occupied West Bank. The Palestinians sustained injuries as the settlers beat them using batons and hurled stones, the Health Ministry said. Their condition, however, is stable. Silwad’s mayor Raed Hamed told Anadolu that 40 armed settlers raided the town’s Nasiba area, assaulted the people, and set fire to at least five cars. Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on…
A volcanic eruption has struck Ethiopia’s central Mount Dofan, a region that has recently experienced frequent minor tremors, according to local media reports on Friday. The tremors in the Awash Fentale region, which is approximately 142 miles (230 kilometers) from Addis Ababa, have been felt as far as the capital city, raising concerns about a potential major disaster. In recent weeks, more than a dozen minor earthquakes have been recorded in the Awash Fentale area and surrounding regions, adding to residents’ concerns about the seismic activity’s impact. Efforts are underway to prevent casualties by relocating at-risk residents to safer areas,…
Palestinian-American entrepreneur and art curator Faisal Saleh said after Israel decided to close its embassy in Dublin, he began efforts to lease the building and convert it into a Palestinian museum. “This will be a very powerful symbolic move where Palestinian art replaces the genocidal entity representation in Ireland,” Saleh told Anadolu. Saleh, the founder and director of the Palestine Museum US in Connecticut, spoke with Anadolu about his family’s forced displacement following the Nakba in 1948, the museum’s establishment in the US, and his initiative to convert Israel’s former embassy in Dublin into a museum. Born in 1951 in…
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general on Thursday called on Israel to allow more medical evacuations from Gaza. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X that “the pace of evacuations remains excruciatingly slow.” He recalled that only “5,383 patients have been evacuated with support from WHO since October 2023, of which only 436 since the Rafah crossing was closed.” The WHO chief stressed that over “12,000 people still need medical evacuation.” “At this rate, it would take 5-10 years to evacuate all these critically ill patients, including thousands of children. In the meantime, their conditions get worse and some die,” he…
Spain set a new record for migrant arrivals in 2024, with 63,970 people entering Spanish territory irregularly by land or sea, according to Interior Ministry data released on Thursday. This marks the second consecutive year that Spain has broken its record for arrivals. In 2023, the total was 55,718 — almost double the number recorded in 2022. In 2024, the vast majority of irregular arrivals — 46,843 — made the treacherous journey by sea from northwest Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands. A report released in December by the NGO Caminando Fronteras estimated that an average of 30 people lost their…
Türkiye has vowed to protect all “aggrieved groups” in Syria, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “Whether it’s a majority or minority in Syria, whoever it may be — Nusayris, Alevis, Yazidis, Christians, anyone — Türkiye is their protector and guardian as it is for all the others in this new period,” Hakan Fidan told a joint news conference with his Belgian counterpart Bernard Quintin in Ankara. He said that during the oppression of the Assad regime, millions of Sunni Arabs were displaced, including Turks, and had to seek refuge in other countries. Fidan emphasized that Türkiye did not…
Several Arab countries on Wednesday condemned the deadly car-ramming attack that killed and injured dozens in New Orleans, US, in the early hours of Wednesday. A white F-150 pickup truck plowed through the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans around 3.15 a.m. (0915GMT) Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 30 others. The FBI identified the attacker as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas and Army veteran. In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced solidarity with the US and extended its condolences to the families of the victims. The ministry said Egypt…
Türkiye is determined to protect all “aggrieved groups” in Syria, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “Whether it’s a majority or minority in Syria, whoever it may be — Nusayris, Alevis, Yazidis, Christians, anyone — Türkiye is their protector and guardian as it is for all the others in this new period,” Hakan Fidan told a joint news conference with his Belgian counterpart Bernard Quintin in Ankara. He said that during the oppression of the Assad regime, millions of Sunni Arabs were displaced, as well as ethnic Turks, and had to seek refuge in other countries. Fidan emphasized that…
At least five Palestinians, including a child, were killed and several others injured in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening, a medical source said. Three people lost their lives, including a child, in a strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced civilians in the southern city of Khan Younis, the source said. Two more people were killed and others injured when Israeli forces shelled a group of civilians in Gaza City, he added. Gaza’s Civil Defense Service called the Israeli military escalation “clear insanity.” “We are no longer able to respond to all distress calls amid relentless…
Some 200 giant footprints, belong to dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been found at a quarry in Oxfordshire, becoming the UK’s largest footprint site. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways, the University of Oxford announced on Thursday. The new discovery showed the footprints dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period –around 166 million years ago– the trackways form part of a huge “dinosaur highway” and include footprints from the nine meter ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up…