ISTANBUL: Here is a rundown of all the news you need to start Saturday, including the US sanctioning Russian media outlet RT for “covert activities” and “military procurement;” the UN refugee agency saying that one of its workers was killed by a snipe…
ANKARA: At least 19 Palestinians, including several women and children, were killed on Saturday in Israeli attacks targeting areas in both the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
According to Gaza’s Civil Defense, five Palestinians were killed and othe…
ISTANBUL: China deployed naval and air forces to track and monitor German frigate and supply ships transiting the Taiwan Strait on Friday because it “heightened security risk and sent the wrong signals,” according to the Global Times newspaper.
A Peo…
ANKARA: Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist, was shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting in the West Bank on Sept. 6.
Eygi, 26, had traveled to the region to support Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation, according t…
ISTANBUL: A judge in the US state of Colorado sharply reduced a paramedic’s five-year prison sentence over the 2019 death of a Black man to four years of probation, but the ruling was immediately criticized, according to local media.
Peter Cichuniec,…
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday pledged to seek justice for slain Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and over 41,000 Gazan civilians, comparing the situation in Gaza to the notorious 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
At a…
ISTANBUL: Illegal Israeli settlers killed 72 sheep by poisoning their drinking water in northwestern Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to an activist on Saturday.
Hassan Mleihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baydar Organization for the De…
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