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At Least 179 Dead in South Korea's Worst Plane Crash
At Least 179 Dead in South Korea's Worst Plane Crash

A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. A bird strike was cited by authorities as the likely cause of the crash, the worst ever aviation disaster on South Korean soil, which flung passengers out of the plane and ...

Nearly 300 Arrested in Syria Crackdown on Assad Loyalists
Nearly 300 Arrested in Syria Crackdown on Assad Loyalists

Syria's new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Sunday. Since rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group toppled Assad ...

Palestinian Woman Shot Dead in Jenin Camp
Palestinian Woman Shot Dead in Jenin Camp

A Palestinian woman was shot dead overnight at the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, with her family on Sunday accusing the Palestinian Authority's security forces of killing her. Shatha al-Sabbagh, a journalism student in her early 20s, was killed by a bullet to the head, which her family said was fired by a security forces sniper ...

Jailed PKK Leader Says Strengthening Turk-Kurd Brotherhood ‘Historical Responsibility'
Jailed PKK Leader Says Strengthening Turk-Kurd Brotherhood ‘Historical Responsibility'

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan told a rare visiting delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish party that bolstering Turkish-Kurdish ties is vital and that he is ready to contribute to the process. "Re-strengthening the Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood is not only a historical responsibility but also... an urgency for all peoples," Ocalan said according ...

Georgia’s New President Sworn in Amid Political Showdown
Georgia’s New President Sworn in Amid Political Showdown

Georgia inaugurated a ruling party loyalist as president in the midst of a political showdown on Sunday, moments after Tbilisi's outgoing pro-EU leader declared herself the "only legitimate president". The inauguration of former footballer Mikhail Kavelashvili is set to further escalate a months-long political crisis that has seen huge ...

Trump Sides With Musk in Right-Wing Row Over Worker Visas
Trump Sides With Musk in Right-Wing Row Over Worker Visas

Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barons like Elon Musk, saying that he backs a special visa program that helps highly skilled workers enter the country. "I've always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that's why we have them" at Trump-owned facilities, ...

Israel Arrests The Director of a Gaza Hospital In a Military Operation, The WHO ‘Appalled’.
Israel Arrests The Director of a Gaza Hospital In a Military Operation, The WHO ‘Appalled’.

Israel said on Saturday that it had arrested the director of a hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that had been presented as a Palestinian Hamas command centre and was now empty of patients and staff, according to the World Health Organisation, which said it was ‘appalled’. The Kamal Adwan hospital was the last major hospital ...

Police Commander Killed in South Iran 'Terrorist' Attack
Police Commander Killed in South Iran 'Terrorist' Attack

A "terrorist attack" killed a police commander on Saturday in Bandar-e Lengeh, a coastal city in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, local media reported. Tasnim news agency said the commander "was targeted" in the deadly attack. "The attacker was also killed," Tasnim said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, a rarity ...

Qatar PM Meets Hamas Delegation for Gaza Ceasefire Talks
Qatar PM Meets Hamas Delegation for Gaza Ceasefire Talks

Qatar's prime minister met a Hamas delegation in Doha on Saturday to discuss a "clear and comprehensive" ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza, a statement said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held talks with a Hamas team led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, the foreign ministry statement said. It is unusual for Sheikh ...

WHO: Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital 'now empty'
WHO: Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital 'now empty'

The World Health Organization said Saturday that the Kamal Adwan hospital was "now empty" following an Israeli military raid which put north Gaza's last major health facility out of service. The WHO said it was "appalled" by Friday's raid, saying "hospitals have once again become battlegrounds", and describing the lifeline of healthcare in north ...

Turkey's Top Diplomat Tells Blinken Kurdish Fighters 'Cannot Be Allowed' in Syria
Turkey's Top Diplomat Tells Blinken Kurdish Fighters 'Cannot Be Allowed' in Syria

Turkey's top diplomat on Saturday said Syrian Kurdish fighters essential for the United States in the fight against Islamic State (IS) extremists cannot be sheltered in Syria, in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Blinken that "the PKK/YPG terrorist organization cannot be allowed to take ...

Houthis Say New Airstrikes Hit Northern Yemen
Houthis Say New Airstrikes Hit Northern Yemen

The Houthis said new airstrikes hit northern Yemen on Saturday, shortly after claiming responsibility for a missile attack on Israel. A Houthi military statement reported that the airstrikes targeted the Buhais area in the Medi district of Hajjah province, attributing the attacks to "US-British aggression." There was no immediate comment from ...