ANKARA: The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday denied that it had asked the Lebanese army to leave its positions in the country’s south in the face of a seemingly imminent Israeli ground offensive. According to the official Lebanese National News Agency, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti denied that
ISTANBUL: The Yemeni Houthi group on Monday said it shot down another US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over northern Yemen. In a statement, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the US drone was intercepted by the group’s air defense while flying over Saada province. Saree said that the group
ISTANBUL: The Yemeni Houthi group on Monday said the death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Al-Hudaydah, western Yemen, reached six along with 57 others injured. “The victims of Israeli aggression on the Al-Hudaydah province have risen to six people and 57 others injured, most of them in critical condition,” Houthi-run
ANKARA: France on Monday urged both Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah to de-escalate the situation and agree on a cease-fire that ends the ongoing hostilities. Addressing a press conference in Beirut, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noal Barrot urged Israel “to refrain from any ground incursion (into Lebanon).” Several Israeli media
ISTANBUL: Expanding its footprints in Southeast Asia, Google on Monday announced fresh investments to build data and cloudflare centers in Thailand. Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra announced on X that President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google Ruth Porat on Monday announced the investment of $1 billion into
ISTANBUL: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday claimed that Western elites have turned Ukraine into a ‘military outpost’ as the country marks the second anniversary of its illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions. ‘We did not abandon our brothers and sisters but sought to achieve a
