SIRNAK, Turkey,(APP/Anatolia): At least eight police officers were martyred Friday when PKK terrorists detonated a bomb-laden car near a security checkpoint in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, hospital sources said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the attack also injured 45 people, including two in critical condition. Security sources said earlier that […]
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PKK attack martyrs 8 police officers in SE Turkey
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New Istanbul bridge linking Europe, Asia opening Friday
ANKARA,(APP/Anatolia): A third bridge linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul will be opened Friday with a ceremony to be attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, built above the northern Bosphorus, was named after 16th century Ottoman Sultan Selim I, whose rule marked the […]
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Italy quake toll rises to 267
ROME, (APP/AFP) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 267 Friday with 367 people hospitalised with injuries, the Civil Protection agency said. Immacolata Postiglione, head of the agency’s emergency unit, indicated there had been no survivors found overnight as rescuers sifted through rubble for a third day. The government […]
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Car bomb attack targets police headquarters in southeast Turkey
ISTANBUL, (APP/AFP) – A car bomb blamed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels on Friday exploded outside a police headquarters in Turkey’s southeastern town of Cizre, state media and television said. The bomb attack caused immense damage to the headquarters of the special anti-riot police force in Cizre, with television pictures showing an immense plume […]
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Seven killed in Mogadishu beach restaurant attack: official
MOGADISHU, (APP/AFP) – Seven people were killed in an attack by Shabaab jihadists on a beachfront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a spokesman for the city authorities said on Friday. “Nine people including two Shabaab gunmen were killed in the attack” on Thursday, Mogadishu city spokesman Abdifatah Halane told AFP.
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Gambia releases opposition figure on bail
BANJUL, Gambia, (APP/AFP) – A ruling party parliamentarian turned leading Gambian opposition figure has been released on bail, her lawyer said, after she was detained twice in one month over allegations of fraud and embezzlement. Tina Faal, who was a ruling party parliamentarian from 2007 to 2012 — one of five nominated by President Yahya […]