A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, party officials said. The visit was the party’s first in almost 10 years. DEM’s predecessor, the HDP party, last met Ocalan in April 2015.”The delegation left in the morning,” a party …
Israel’s military said on Saturday it had ended its raid on “a Hamas command centre” in a north Gaza hospital and detained its director as a suspected Hamas operative.Since October 6, Israeli operations in the Palestinian territory have concentrated on the north, where they are carrying out a land and air offensive they say aims …
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Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, while stopping short of claiming responsibility. The Kremlin said Putin apologised to Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev over the “tragic incident” in a phone call, but did not say Russian air defence shot the plane. Moscow had …
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Israel’s military on Saturday confirmed it has detained a hospital director during a raid in north Gaza that the World Health Organization said left the area’s last major health facility emptied of patients and staff.The military said the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hossam Abu Safiyeh, is being held for questioning, suspected of “being a …
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The United States sent back a record 61,680 Guatemalans in 2024, the state-run Guatemalan Migration Institute said after the last deportee planes arrived in Guatemala City.Four aircraft touched down at an air force base in the Guatemalan capital on Friday, arriving from Texas. AFP journalists saw around 100 people disembark from one of the planes, …
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Gaza health officials and the WHO said Saturday that an Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director.The military said it intercepted two projectiles fired toward Israel from northern Gaza, a rare attack more than 14 months into …
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Thousands of Georgians formed human chains across the country on Saturday, in support of the European Union membership, marking second month of their daily pro-Europe rallies.Mass street protests gripped Georgia since November 28, when the ruling Georgian Dream party’s increasingly authoritarian government said it will not seek the opening of EU accession talks until 2028.The …
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France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison, an Indonesian minister told AFP on Saturday.Indonesia has in recent weeks released half a dozen high-profile detainees, including a Filipina mum on death row and the last five members of the …
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Layan Al Nasr, 14, thought she would never walk again after both of her legs were amputated following an Israeli bombing in Gaza one year ago. Now, she stands proudly on artificial limbs fitted in the United Arab Emirates. But fear for her family, still living under the attacks, gnaws away.”When I was told about prosthetics …
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The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday he only narrowly escaped death in fatal Israeli strikes on the airport in Yemen’s Huthi rebel-held capital.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC radio his ears were still ringing following Thursday’s attack as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa, and stressed that the protection …
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