ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this month’s presidential election cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has ruled the country for two decades.
JERUSALEM (AP) — A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a nearly three-month hunger strike, Israel’s prison service announced, at a time of already soaring tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.
Khader Adnan, a leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, is the first Palestinian prisoner to die since Palestinian inmates began staging protracted hunger strikes about a decade ago. His death raises the potential for renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militant groups as violence surges in the West Bank.
TEHRAN, May 1 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran arrested a group of individuals who sought to “foment unrest” in the country, by planning nationwide strikes and bringing up again the “fake” student poisonings, the semi-official Fars news agency reported yesterday.
The arrestees were linked to “anti-Islamic groups, anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation, as well as, French spy agents,” the report quoted informed sources as saying.
SANAA, May 1 (NNN-YPA) – Four people were killed in Yemen yesterday, after the collapse of a water dam in the Al Mahwit governorate, about 111 km west of the capital, Sanaa.
Local authorities confirmed that the Al-Aqabi Dam, in the Hafash district of Al Mahwit governorate, had collapsed, causing a flood that swept away a mosque with four people inside, killing all of them.
The flood also damaged nearby houses.
The governorate has been under the control of the Houthi group since 2014.
DAMASCUS, May 1 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, hailed China’s supportive stance towards Syria and its role in solving critical regional issues, including the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation.
Assad made the remarks during his meeting with visiting China’s special envoy on Middle East affairs, Zhai Jun, in the capital, Damascus.
Assad said, Syria appreciates China’s firm support in issues concerning Syria’s national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
KHARTOUM, May 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Monday that 800,000 people may flee Sudan as rival military factions battled in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire and foreign states wound down evacuations.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded over 16 days of battles since disputes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into conflict on April 15.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The satellite news network Al Jazeera said Monday that a correspondent for one of its channels held in Egypt since 2019 has been released from pre-trial detention.
The Qatar-funded network in Doha said that Hisham Abdel Aziz, a producer with its Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, had been freed.
Authorities in Egypt did not acknowledge his release. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group during an operation in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late Sunday.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT Turk television in an interview that the IS leader, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a strike conducted on Saturday.
Erdogan said the Turkish intelligence agency, MIT, had been following him “for a long time.”
“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.
30 Apr 2023; MEMO: Moscow on Sunday claimed that its forces took control of four more urban quarters in the frontline Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
The Russian Defense Ministry said units of the Airborne Forces pinned down Ukrainian forces in the northern and southern outskirts of the city.
Ukraine did not immediately respond to the claims.
Tehran, IRNA – Iran will start construction of six steam units in two power plants with an investment of 800 million euros, according to the CEO of Saba Group, an energy holding operated by government-affiliated Mostazafan Foundation.
Mohsen Amiri said on Sunday that the Iranian government had approved the allocation of funds for the six new steam power plants, adding that Iran's National Development Fund will provide for the foreign exchange investment needed in the projects.
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