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: Commodity prices continued to rise last week due to expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) would continue to cut rates, showing signs of a soft landing in the central bank’s fight against inflation, and China’s monetary decisions. The People’s Bank of China significantly eased its monetary policy to boost
ISTANBUL: Saudi Arabia issued directives Sunday to provide medical and relief aid to Lebanon amid Israel’s deadly airstrikes. ‘The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is following with great concern the developments taking place in the Republic of Lebanon,’ the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It emphasized “the need to preserve
A local office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party in Istanbul’s Sultangazi district was targeted in a shooting attack early on Sep 28. The office was empty at the time, and no injuries were reported while bullets broke the office windows, according to reporting from Mezopotamya Agency
An alleged painting by Pablo Picasso was found in a Capri villa 50 years ago and has now been attributed to the Spanish Cubist great by the family that had unwittingly hung it in their living room for the past few decades, Il Giorno newspaper reported Monday. The painting, titled
An 82-year-old woman stabbed her sick husband to death and then attempted to take her own life with the same knife but did not succeed, in the town of Mercatale di Vernio near Prato, investigative sources said Monday. The murder and attempted suicide took place on Sunday evening, according to
