ANKARA: Sri Lanka’s newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake reaffirmed his government’s commitment Thursday to the goals of the IMF program, emphasizing “alternative approaches to ease the burden’ on his people, according to media reports.
T…
ISTANBUL: Russia said on Thursday that it sent 33 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon, where Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the capital Beirut overnight.
A special Il-76 aircraft carried 33 tons of humanitarian aid as directed by Preside…
ISTANBUL: At least 16 people were killed and many others injured on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes targeting several areas in Lebanon, Lebanese sources including civil defense and state media said.
Two people were killed and four others injured in an…
ISTANBUL: China has pushed back against ‘condoning’ any ‘military adventurism’ in Lebanon and Gaza, warning it could cause ‘serious consequences.’
‘With the current situation hanging by a thread, any passive procrastination would be irresponsible, an…
ANKARA: Irene Montero from the Spanish left-wing party, Podemos, accused Israel on Thursday of using white phosphorus bombs against Lebanon.
‘White phosphorus causes deadly burns that reach the bone,’ she wrote on X. ‘Israel is bombing Beirut with th…
ANKARA: South Korean and US forces completed a combined marine exercise in the East Sea, the South’s navy said Thursday.
The two countries’ navies held a two-day exercise starting Wednesday in waters off Pohang some 270 kilometers (167.7 miles) sout…
ISTANBUL: Two cargo ships collided in the Istanbul Strait on Thursday, damaging both ships but resulting in no casualties.
The ships were navigating closely off Istanbul’s Uskudar coast.
The 80-meter cargo ship named AYED 1, traveling from Batumi to…
ANKARA: Powerful Typhoon Krathon struck Taiwan, killing two people and injuring more than 100, local media reported Thursday.
The typhoon brought heavy winds and rain, forcing authorities to close schools and offices in all cities and counties for a …