ISTANBUL: Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is set to pick his Cabinet after he took the oath of office on Monday.
Dissanayake, popular as AKD, is the ninth executive president of the island nation.
The Marxist-leaning Sin…
ANKARA: The Israeli government on Monday evening announced a nationwide state of emergency until Sept. 30 amid its escalating strikes on Lebanon and anticipated expansion of Hezbollah rockets firing towards Israel.
According to Israeli daily Yedioth …
ISTANBUL: The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Monday called on the Islamic world for urgent Arab-Islamic action to counter Israeli military operations in Gaza and Lebanon.
In a post on X, Ali Mohiuddin Al-Qaradaghi, the head of the …
ISTANBUL: benchmark stock index BIST 100 opened Monday at 9,959.21 points, marking an increase of 0.6% or 58.95 points from the previous close.
On Friday, the BIST 100 index was down by 0.76% to 9,900.25 points, with a daily transaction volume of 76 …
ISTANBUL: China’s efforts to test a reusable kerosene-fueled rocket encountered a setback on Sunday, as an engine malfunction disrupted the landing phase, according to state media.
The test, conducted by commercial aerospace start-up Deep Blue Aerosp…
ANKARA: The death toll from Monday’s Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon has surged to 356, including women and children, said new official figures.
Among those killed are 42 women and 24 children, in addition to 1,246 others who were …
ISTANBUL: At least 21 people were injured in an overnight Russian airstrike on Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, local authorities said on Monday.
“The number of injured as a result of the overnight strike in Zaporizhzhia increased to 21. T…
WASHINGTON : The UN has proven unable to show the leadership to meet current global challenges, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday.
“Both the international community and the United Nations are facing a historic test. Our ability to p…