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During Tuesday evening's live broadcast the screen went blank as it became clear President Erdogan was unwell
Turkey's Erdogan falls ill on TV and cancels election rallies
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suspended election campaigning after he fell ill during a live TV interview in which the broadcast was abruptly brought to a halt.After a 20-minute break, he returned to say he had "serious stomach flu" after two days of intense campaigning.Erdogan, 69, is facing his toughest election campaign so far.The main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has been chosen to run for a group of six political parties.He was among a number of opposition leaders to wish the president a speedy recovery.Latest polls suggest a close race between the two men and give Kilicdaroglu a good chance of victory in elections on 14 May, with a possible presidential run-off two weeks afterward.President Erdogan initially canceled three appearances in...
April 27, 2023

Turkey's Erdogan falls ill on TV and cancels election rallies

People walk through Jerusalem’s Old City. — courtesy UN News/Maher Nasser
Israel-Palestine: UN envoy calls for greater effort towards peace amid mounting violence
NEW YORK — The current trajectory of escalating unrest between Israelis and Palestinians is neither sustainable nor inevitable, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland told the Security Council on Tuesday, delivering his latest report.Wennesland expressed deep concern over recent violence and inflammatory actions, particularly the violent confrontations inside Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem earlier this month.He urged the sides, regional States and the international community, to show leadership, re-engage and work towards peace and the vision of a two-State solution.“There must be an end to the unilateral measures, provocations and incitement that enable violence and prevent progress toward resolving this conflict and ending the occupation,” he said.Wennesland, officially the UN Special...
April 26, 2023

Israel-Palestine: UN envoy calls for greater effort towards peace amid mounting violence

Ayatollah Abbasali Soleimani died in hospital after being shot in the northern town of Babolsar
Senior Iranian cleric shot dead at bank
TEHRAN — A senior Iranian Shia cleric and member of the powerful Assembly of Experts has been killed in a gun attack in northern Iran, state media report.Ayatollah Abbasali Soleimani died in hospital after being shot at a bank in Babolsar, in Mazandaran province.Irna news agency said the attacker was arrested and the motive was not clear.Ayatollah Soleimani was one of 88 clerics on the Assembly of Experts, which appoints the Supreme Leader and can theoretically remove him.He also previously served as the personal representative of the current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the restive south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, stepping down in 2019 after 17 years in the role.Ayatollah Soleimani, who was in his mid-70s, was reportedly sitting inside a branch of Bank Melli...
April 26, 2023

Senior Iranian cleric shot dead at bank

The car hit people near the bust Machane Yehuda market area in Jerusalem. — Reuters
Five injured in car ramming attack near market in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Five people have been injured in a car-ramming attack in central Jerusalem, Israeli police say.The vehicle hit pedestrians near the busy Machane Yehuda market.A suspect was shot and killed at the scene by a civilian. Police say the attacker was a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem.It came as Israel began to mark Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of attacks — one of the most solemn days in the national calendar.Speaking at a Memorial Day event, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was “another attempt to murder Israeli citizens”.“These terrorist attacks come with the expectation that they will overcome us and will uproot us from here, and if they could, they would murder us all. But they will not overcome us; we will overcome...
April 24, 2023

Five injured in car ramming attack near market in Jerusalem

Jordaniaan MP Imad Al-Adwan was reportedly stopped as he tried to cross Allenby Bridge (file pic). — courtesy AFP
Israel arrests Jordanian MP for alleged gun-smuggling
AMMAN/ TEL AVIV — A Jordanian MP has been arrested by Israel for allegedly trying to smuggle weapons into the occupied West Bank, Jordan's Foreign Ministry said.Imad Al-Adwan was detained on Saturday night at the Allenby Bridge crossing, Jordan's Ammon news agency reported.Authorities said they found 12 machine-guns and 270 other types of firearms, according to unverified video on Israeli social media.Israel has not commented, and local media reporting has been restricted.A Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman said it was trying to resolve the case "as speedily as possible".Israeli media said the Shin Bet security agency was trying to establish who the weapons were destined for and whether the MP had done the same thing before.Jordan and Israel officially established...
April 24, 2023

Israel arrests Jordanian MP for alleged gun-smuggling

The head of immunization at Dar Sa’ad Medical Compound in Aden goes to the streets to ensure children are vaccinated. — courtesy UNICEF/UN0679318/Hayyan
Yemen health system ‘edging closer to collapse’ warns WHO
GENEVA — Yemen’s fragile health system is “severely overburdened” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) leading official for emergency operations in the country said on Friday, and more international funding is urgently needed to stop it deteriorating further.Hopes are running high of an end to the intense fighting between a Saudi-backed coalition standing alongside Government forces, and Houthi rebels and their allies, which since 2015 has led the near total collapse of the economy, with tens of thousands killed, and 21.6 million in need of humanitarian assistance and protection this year, according to the UN.“Nevertheless, the country’s fragile health system is severely overburdened and edging closer to collapse”, said Dr. Annette Heinzelmann of the WHO in Yemen, “while...
April 22, 2023

Yemen health system ‘edging closer to collapse’ warns WHO

The crush in Yemen kills at least 85 people and more injured than 322 injured on Thursday at a school in Sanaa.
85 die and hundreds injured in crush at charity distribution in Yemen
SANAA — At least 85 people were killed and more than 322 injured on Thursday in a crush at a school in Yemen’s capital Sanaa.Hundreds of people had gathered to collect cash donations from a charity during the holy month of Ramadan.It is one of the deadliest stampedes to rock the country in a decade, with video footage showing chaotic scenes after the incident.Yemen is the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula, scarred by a devastating civil war between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces, backed by Iran and Saudi Arabia respectively.Fighting has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and plunged some 30 million people into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with three-quarters of the population dependent on international aid.The stampede erupted at night during a...
April 20, 2023

85 die and hundreds injured in crush at charity distribution in Yemen

IS is known to maintain hideouts in the Syrian desert, from which they frequently launch attacks on civilians
At least 26 killed in Syrian desert ambush
DAMASCUS — At least 26 people searching for valuable truffles in the Syrian desert have been killed by the Islamic State group, state media and activists say.Civilians and pro-government fighters were among the victims of the attack on Sunday in Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.IS militants have repeatedly preyed on those searching for the fungus, with more than 150 people killed this year.A kilogram (2.2lb) can fetch more than the country's average monthly wage.Syria's state-run Sana news agency cited a police source as saying that IS militants attacked a group of civilians in the village of Duwaizin, in the eastern countryside of Hama, killing 26 of them.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group that relies on a...
April 17, 2023

At least 26 killed in Syrian desert ambush

A piece of wreckage from the Ukrainian flight PS752 International airlines is seen at the site of a crash about 50km south of Tehran
Iranian commander sentenced to 13 years for shooting down Ukrainian passenger plane
TEHRAN — A court in Tehran convicted as many as 10 Iranian military personnel on Sunday for their involvement in the shooting down of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 in 2020, according to Iran’s semi-official Mehr News.But the sentence was dismissed as a “sham ruling” by victims’ families who say Iranian authorities have failed to prosecute those ultimately responsible for the disaster.The main defendant in the trial was the unnamed commander of the Tor M1 surface-to-air missile defense system that shot down the plane, killing all 176 people on board. The commander was sentenced to 13 years in prison, according to Mehr.The Boeing 737 flight departed from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran on January 8, 2020, and was headed to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv when it was hit by anti-aircraft...
April 17, 2023

Iranian commander sentenced to 13 years for shooting down Ukrainian passenger plane

From wasteland to protected wetland: Here’s how the Gaza Valley is bouncing back. — courtesy Marta Vidal
How Gaza is bringing its wetlands back to life
GAZA STRIP — Muzaraq “Abu Salman” Arash remembers a time when fish swam in Gaza’s wetlands and thousands of migrating birds soared above him every spring and autumn.Water used to stream down the Hebron hills in the West Bank and wind through the Naqab desert, filling the coastal wetlands of central Gaza before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.“There were a lot of animals, a lot of plants. The water was so clean we used to drink it,” says Abu Salman, who has lived in Wadi Gaza his entire life. He doesn’t know how old he is, but estimates he is about 60.Over the decades, Abu Salman witnessed a serious deterioration of Gaza’s once vibrant wetlands, an important stopover point for birds migrating between Africa, Europe and Asia.‘An environmental disaster’: What happened to...
April 16, 2023

How Gaza is bringing its wetlands back to life

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