ISTANBUL : Super Typhoon Yagi has left at least two people dead and 92 injured in China’s southern island province of Hainan, according to local authorities cited by the state-run Xinhua News Agency on Saturday. Two deaths were confirmed in Ding’an county, while the city of Wenchang recorded 12 injuries
ANKARA : North Korea launched around 190 trash-filled balloons toward South Korea as it resumed its months-long campaign, the latter’s military officials said on Saturday, Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea floated the balloons from late Friday to early Saturday morning, and at least 100 landed in the capital and
ISTANBUL : A magnitude 5 earthquake hit southern Trkiye on Saturday, the country’s disaster authority announced. The quake jolted the Pazarcik district of Kahramanmaras province at 9.31 a.m. local time (0631GMT), according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). It occurred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles)
WASHINGTON : Nilan Aydin remembers the possibilities of what could have been. For a year, her fellow psychology major at the University of Washington (UW), Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, mentored Aydin, then a junior to Eygi’s senior. Eygi helped Aydin navigate the academic rigors of the program, find research opportunities, and
SEATTLE : A friend of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, killed on Friday by Israeli forces during a protest in the occupied West Bank, described her as ‘brave,’ ‘honest’ and ‘smart.’ Saif Sharabati, 20, a Palestinian-American based in Seattle, where Eygi lived, studied and married, spoke with her just hours
ISTANBUL : Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican who served as vice president under ex-President George W. Bush, said Friday he plans to vote for the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election. “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to
