Month: February 2023

The death toll crossed 4,000 on Tuesday as four earthquakes hit one after the other in Turkey and Syria since Monday. Thousands of buildings were also reduced to rubble. The screams of people trapped within mountains of debris resounded across the night on Monday as the death toll in the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria crossed 4,000. The death toll in Syria mounted to 1,444 and at least 2,379 were killed in Turkey. An additional 14,483 people were injured even as rescue operations were underway to pull out more…

The overall death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria on Monday rose to 360 as health officials in the Syrian capital of Damascus reported that 237 people died in government-held areas of the country. Hundreds more were reported injured in both countries. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management agency said 440 people were injured. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone with the governors of eight affected provinces to gather information on the situation and rescue efforts, his office said in a statement. He said on Twitter…

A U.S. fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy blimp above the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast Saturday, ending a three-day spectacle that dominated headlines and created an international incident. The operation took place at the direction of President Joe Biden in U.S. airspace as the balloon drifted over the water. Senior defence officials said the balloon was successfully downed by a single missile at 2:39 p.m. “I told them to shoot it down,” Biden told reporters, during a travel stop in Hagerstown, Md. on the way to…

New Delhi: In the starting days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett acted as a mediator between the two countries during which in a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin he asked him if he would kill Volodymyr Zelensky. Naftali Bennett, in an interview with Hanoch Daum revealed that he asked Putin if he intended to kill the Ukrainian president. Former Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. Bennette said that in March last year, he had…