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ANKARA, Feb 6 (AA/APP): Türkiye has experienced the “biggest disaster” in the last century after the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a strong earthquake hit southern provinces on Monday morning, claiming the lives of at least 912 people. “Tonight at 04:17, […]

Beirut, Feb 6 (AFP/APP): Dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured in rebel-held areas of Syria after an earthquake rattled neighbouring Turkey on Monday, rescue workers said. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, about 40 kilometres from […]

DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 6 (Xinhua/APP): The death toll from northern Tanzania’s road accident has risen to 21, an official said Sunday. Seventeen people were killed and 12 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a mini-bus in Tanzania’s northern district of […]

BEIRUT, Feb 6 (SPA/APP):An earthquake left more than 100 people dead and hundreds more wounded in northern and western Syria early on Monday, state television said, calling on citizens to help shuttle victims to hospitals in their cars, Reuters reported. A health official in Syria’s […]

ISLAMABAD, 02 February (Online): UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today launched a one-time cash assistance scheme for some 1.3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan affected by devastating 2022 floods as well as the prevailing economic situation. The assistance is being provided, in collaboration with the […]

Islamabad, Feb 2 (Online): King Charles has condemned a bomb attack in Pakistan which killed more than 100 people. Charles sent his condolences to the country’s president Dr Arif Alvi, expressing his shock at the “incomprehensible brutality” and said the people of Pakistan were in […]

BEIJING, Feb 2 (XINHUA/APP): Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences to his Pakistani counterpart, Arif Alvi, on Wednesday over the severe terrorist attack in the country’s northwestern city of Peshawar. In his message, Xi said that upon learning of the severe terrorist […]

IRBIL, Iraq – February 1 (ONLINE) Unidentified attackers fired eight rockets at a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Wednesday, two of which landed inside the facility, the Counter-Terrorism Group, a security organization in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, said. A Turkish security source said […]

ISLAMABAD – February 1 (ONLINE) British Broad Casters (BBC) has recently revealed shocking documentation, which claimed how the then United States (US) President George W Bush ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to find a ‘replacement’ for the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. According to BBC, […]

Moscow, Feb 1 (AFP/APP):Russia on Wednesday criticised comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, who refused this week to rule out delivering fighter jets to Ukraine, while warning against the risk of escalation. “Forgive me but this is absurd,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters […]