ISTANBUL: Thousands of workers are battling against time to plug the breach in a dam at China’s second-largest freshwater lake, state media reported on Monday.
The dike breach of around 226 meters (741 feet) in Dongting Lake in mountainous southern H…
ISTANBUL: The US National Hurricane Center issued a warning on Monday about the life-threatening storm Beryl along the coast of the southern state of Texas.
The forecast from the center predicted that Beryl would bring damaging hurricane-force winds …
ANKARA: The French Foreign Ministry Monday firmly condemned Israel’s recent decision to expand settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
The ministry particularly condemned, in an official statement, ‘the official recognition of five new settl…
ISTANBUL: Workers at Samsung Electronics have initiated a three-day strike on Monday to request improved pay and working conditions, local media reported.
The National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents approximately 30,000 employees or one-…
ISTANBUL: Almost half a million people in the Gaza Strip face catastrophic levels of hunger amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the enclave, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday.
‘Due to unreliable access and limited stocks, families often d…
We support the effort undertaken by the UNSG personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, who believes in the common future of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, adding that “we are here to work in order to achieve it.”
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