The figure includes 80 people killed in the past 48 hours, says Hamas (File) Gaza City: The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday that 1,001 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on March 18. According to the ministry’s statement, the figure includes 80 people killed in … Read more
Istanbul: Almost 1,500 people have been detained — including an AFP photographer — as tens of thousands continued protests in the Turkish capital Tuesday after the arrest of the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The biggest protests in Turkey in over a decade erupted last week following the arrest of Istanbul mayor … Read more
Berlin: More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports on Monday where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancellations in a dispute about workers’ pay. The operator of Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, said no passenger flights would depart from there on Monday, with delays and cancellations also … Read more
More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday tracing the deaths to seven suspected grave sites. In the report, shared exclusively with Reuters, the Syria Justice … Read more
Washington, United States: The death count from powerful winter storms in the central and eastern United States has risen to at least 14, officials said Monday, after floods, gale-force winds and bitterly cold temperatures swept the region. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned on Monday of a winter storm system carrying arctic air that would … Read more