Three children among nine dead after magnitude-5.7 earthquake destroys buildings in Turkey

thesun Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:53:00 PM CET | info [other]

A 5.7 MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck Turkey, destroying more than 1,000 buildings and killing nine people - including three children. The country's health ministry confirmed 37 Turks were injured by the shallow tremor on Sunday, while a further 75 were injured in towns and villages across the border in northwest Iran....

Iran announces lowest voter turnout since 1979

aljazeera-en Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:53:00 PM CET | info [other]

In 2016, the turnout was 62 percent, while in 2012, it was 66 percent [Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA/Reuters] Iran's interior minister has announced that the voter turnout in the recent parliamentary elections was about 42 percent, the lowest since the 1979 revolution....

Coronavirus outbreak: Swell in cases reported outside China, South Korea on highest alert

expressindia Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:35:00 PM CET | info [other]

Ambulances transporting confirmed coronavirus patients at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea, on February 23. (Reuters) New cases of novel coronavirus outside of China continue to worry world health authorities, with South Korea on Sunday raising its infectious disease alert to the highest level after.......

Real’s Hazard suffers ankle fracture ahead of City clash

tnp-sg Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:58:00 PM CET | info [other]

Eden Hazard’s season could be at risk after Real Madrid announced on Sunday (Feb 23) that he had fractured his right ankle during Real’s 1-0 La Liga defeat by Levante. Belgium forward Hazard, whose first season at Real has been plagued by injury, will now miss Wednesday’s Champions League last 16,.......

SportsPulse Video Tyson Fury embarrasses Deontay Wilder in historic rematch

usaToday Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:37:00 PM CET | info [other]

Tyson Fury embarrasses Deontay Wilder in historic rematch. SportsPulse: Tyson Fury came, controlled and conquered the night. Leaving Deontay Wilder and American boxing wondering what happened....

Turkey shuts border with Iran over coronavirus outbreak

aa-en Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:42:00 PM CET | info [other]

ANKARA. Turkey has decided to temporarily close its border with Iran over the coronavirus outbreak, the health minister said on Sunday. Speaking to press members in Istanbul, Fahrettin Koca said, "Based on the international health regulation, the road and rail transits from Iran to Turkey were temporarily halted as of 5 p....

Pope cautions against ‘unfair’ Israeli-Palestinian peace offers

timesofisrael Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:39:00 PM CET | info [other]

Pope Francis delivers a speech inside the St. Nicholas Basilica on the occasion of the 'Mediterranean sea a border of peace' conference in Bari, Italy, February 23, 2020. (Gregorio Borgia/AP) ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has cautioned against “unfair” solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians....

More Russian weapons for Serbia despite US sanction threats

actionnewsjax Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:11:00 PM CET | info [other]

Russia's arming of Serbia is watched with unease in the West amid growing tensions in the Balkans which went through a devastating civil war in the 1990s. NATO intervened in Serbia to stop a bloody Serb crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists in 1999. U.S....

US to lay out case against Assange at extradition hearing

muscatinejournal Sunday, February 23, 2020 4:17:00 PM CET | info [other]

Assange has been indicted in the U.S. on 18 charges over the publication of classified documents. Prosecutors say he conspired with U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer and release hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....