Category: Foreign

Passengers aboard a Turkish Airline were yesterday thrown into a state of panic as the pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said. The plane had taken off from the western US coastal city of Seattle on Tuesday evening, airline spokesman Yahya Ustun wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He wrote: “The pilot of our Airbus 350 flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight. After an unsuccessful attempt to give first aid, the flight crew…

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Hamas, Palestinian militant group, has said an Israeli strike has killed one of its commanders in a refugee camp in north Lebanon Saturday, the first time the area had been hit since the start of the Gaza war. “Commander” Saeed Attallah Ali, his wife and two daughters were killed in “Zionist bombardment of his house in the Beddawi camp” near the northern city of Tripoli, it said. Israel has repeatedly targeted Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Gaza war erupted almost a year ago. Hamas has announced the deaths of…

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Former US president, Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday. He is the first-ever US president to reach the century mark. Jimmy Carter who began hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, more than 19 months ago, has defied all expectations. No longer regularly appearing in public, the Democratic ex-president spent his birthday in the home he and his late wife Rosalynn had built in Plains in the 1960s. President Joe Biden, in a video posted on his official X account, hailed Carter as a “beloved friend” and…

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For the second time in recent months, Iran has launched several missiles at Israel. Iran said Tuesday’s attacks were in response to Israeli killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said the attack on Israel was a response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week, as well as that of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier this year, Iran’s Fars news agency was quoted as saying. “In response to the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah and [IRGC commander Abbas] Nilforoushan, we…

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About 15 persons have reportedly died in a flash flood that swept through the southern city of Iran, state media reported on Tuesday, updating an earlier toll of six dead. “After finding the last body of Halil River flood incident in Jiroft, a total of 15 are pronounced dead,” the report said. The search and rescue operation had been brought to an end, it added. Almost all of those killed in Monday’s flood were Afghan nationals living in the Islamic republic. Jiroft is a city located in the normally dry…

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The Iranian foreign ministry said Saturday, that the path of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah will continue despite his killing in an Israeli air strike in Beirut, after a year of cross-border clashes between the two sides. “The glorious path of the leader of the resistance, Hassan Nasrallah, will continue and his sacred goal will be realised in the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem), God willing,” foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a post on social media X, mourning Nasrallah’s death. Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Iran, on Saturday…

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