Heavy snowfall in Turkey forces Istanbul Airport to shut
Al Jazeera : Europe’s busiest airport shut down in Istanbul while schools and vaccination centres closed in Athens as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of...
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Earthquake in China, No casualty
BSS :A 5.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the city of Delingha in northwest China’s Qinghai Province at 10:21 a.m. on Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China...
IS-Kurds battle after Syria prison attack kills over 120
BSS :At least 120 people have been killed in Syria including seven civilians as battles between US-backed Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters raged...
US navy stops ship carrying ‘explosive precursor’ from Iran
BSS :The US navy said on Sunday it had stopped a ship carrying 40 tons of a fertiliser that can be used to make explosives...
Gunshots heard in several Burkina Faso barracks
BSS :Gunshots were heard in several barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, including two in the capital Ouagadougou, military sources and residents told AFP.Shots were...
Malaysian ex-PM Mahathir admitted to hospital again
BSS :Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been admitted to a specialist heart hospital for the third time in the space of a few...
More than 70 dead in fighting after Syria jail attack
BSS :Fighting raged for a third day on Saturday between the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces in Syria after IS attacked a prison housing...
India reports over 3.37 lakh cases
BSS :India added 3,37,704 new corona virus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,89,03,731, which includes 10,050 cases of the Omicron variant,...
Saudi coalition denies Yemen prison air strike that killed 70
BSS :The Saudi-led coalition on Saturday rejected an allegation of an air strike on a prison in Yemen’s rebel-held north that aid groups said killed...
Dead, wounded in air strike on Yemen prison
BSS :An air strike has destroyed a prison in the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada in northern Yemen, leaving many dead or wounded, the insurgents...
11 soldiers killed in Iraq by IS: military source
BSS :The Islamic State group against their base in the eastern province of Diyala killed eleven Iraqi soldiers in a nighttime attack, a military source...
China, Russia block US push for UN sanctions on North Koreans
BSS :China and Russia on Thursday blocked a US push to impose United Nations sanctions on five North Koreans in response to recent missile launches...