Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, in Istanbul, Turkiye, March 17, 2024. — Reuters ANKARA: The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as saying he may be prepared to call for militants to …
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A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. A bird strike and adverse weather conditions were cited by authorities as likely causes of the crash that flung passengers out of the plane and left it “almost completely destroyed”, …
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An Afghan amateur rubab player Gull Agha displays the rubab instrument at a shop in Herat, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2024. — AFP Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a …
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Firefighters carry out extinguishing operations on an aircraft which drove off runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Jeolla Province, South Korea on December 29, 2024. — Reuters Aircraft was carrying 175 passengers and six crew. Pilot issued “Mayday” call two minutes before crash. Runway’s length unlikely to be behind accident: official. MUAN: A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 …
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Pakistan-origin prominent legal expert in Texas Salman Bhojani. — Attorney At Law magazine/File The steady rise of Salman Bhojani is one of the best examples of what people in the United States call the American dream. Salman Bhojani is the first South Asian and the first Muslim American voted into the Texan House of Representatives. And from January 2025, he …
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President-elect Donald Trump. — AFP/File WASHINGTON: Aligning with billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk in a contentious debate, President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday expressed his support for the H-1B visa programme, that allows the entry of highly skilled foreign workers into the United States. “I’ve always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favour of the visas, that’s why …
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A drone view shows houses in the flooded area next to the Taquari River during heavy rains in the city of Encantado in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 1, 2024. — Reuters Brazil has seen a dramatic rise of climate disasters in recent years, compared to two previous decades, a new study says. “Climate disasters have become more frequent …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev for what he called a “tragic incident” following the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane this week in Kazakhstan. The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned towards Kazakhstan and …
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The wreckage of the Azerbaijani Airlines-operated Embraer 190, flight J2-8243, near Kazakhstan’s Aktau city on December 35, 2024. — AFP MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev for a “tragic incident” which happened in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday. Putin called Aliyev as speculation grew that Russian air defence …
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Israel’s army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, as the World Health Organization said Israeli assaults on medical facilities are a “death sentence” for thousands of Palestinians. An Israeli military assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service, the WHO …
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