Libya's Haftar wants military solution: Turkey
ANKARA Renegade Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar is seeking a military solution to the lingering conflict in the country, Turkey's foreign minister said Wednesday. “This is true that Haftar...
US and other nations accuse China of Microsoft Exchange hack
WASHINGTONThe US and its western allies formally accused China on Monday of being behind a sweeping cyberattack of Microsoft's Exchange email servers, saying Beijing has been contracting with hackers...
CPEC transforms Pakistan's remote Gilgit-Baltistan
GILGIT, Pakistan
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is transforming the remote but spectacular Gilgit-Baltistan or the GB region of Pakistan.
Formerly known as the Northern Area and once part of the...
7 Daesh/ISIS terror suspects nabbed in Turkey
ANKARATurkish security forces arrested seven people with suspected links to the Deash/ISIS terror group in the Turkish capital Ankara, judicial sources said on Friday.The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in...
Rising hunger feared in South Sudan, says UN official
JUBA, South Sudan
Although some UN agencies have been disbursing cash and food to help South Sudan's starving population, a plague of locusts and the lockdown to stem the spread...
Turkey reports over 11,500 new coronavirus cases
ANKARA
Turkey on Wednesday reported 11,520 new coronavirus cases, including 689 symptomatic patients.
With the new cases, the country's overall caseload surpassed 2.73 million, and the tally of fatalities stands at...
Bob Rae named Canadian ambassador to UN
ANKARA
Bob Rae has been appointed as Canada's new ambassador to the UN, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Office announced Monday.
Rae, who served earlier as Canada's special envoy on humanitarian and...
Istanbul islands suspend horse carriages over illness
ISTANBUL
Horse-drawn carriages on Istanbul's Princes' Islands have been banned for three months due to an outbreak of glanders, a fatal disease mainly seen in horses, Istanbul's governor said on...
Coronavirus cases, deaths rise in Arab countries
ISTANBUL Several Arab countries reported more coronavirus cases and deaths on Friday. In Morocco, 245 new cases raised the overall count to 2,582, including 273 recoveries. The country’s Health...
Magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolts Turkey's Aegean region
IZMIR, Turkey
Days after a quake in Turkey's Aegean region killed over 90 people and injured nearly 1,000, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolted the same region late Monday, according to...