A car lays smashed by debris from an earthquake in Varankesh village in Eastern Azerbaijan province, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran’s Eastern Azerbaijan province early Friday. (Mohammad ...
At least five people were killed and more than 300 were injured after a 5.9 magnitude/ According to Iran’s Seismological Center, the convulsion started at 2:17 a.m., in the eastern Azerbaijan province, which is around 250 miles from the country’s capital of Tehran./ More than 40 aftershocks ...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Nov. 7 at 5:05 a.m. Pacific time in Ventura, according to the U.S. Geological Survey./ A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Thursday at 5:05 a.m. Pacific time in Ventura, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred two miles from ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Dozens of homes were destroyed near the quake's epicentre At least six people have been killed and hundreds more injured in an earthquake in north-western Iran, officials say. The 5.9-magnitude tremor struck in the early hours of Friday in ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV says a magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the northwest of the country. There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage./ The report says the quake hit at 2:20 a.m. Friday in Iran’s East Azarbaijan province. It says the temblor occurred at a depth of two ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...
Photojournalist Heidi Levine was knocked to the ground by a group of settlers and kicked repeatedly/ Israeli police say they have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank after attacks by settlers on an American journalist and European diplomats last week. The unnamed suspects were ...
One of the main suppliers of food aid to the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), says that it is being forced to "drastically reduce lifesaving assistance" to the Palestinian territory due to funding shortages. Overall, the number of people helped by the UN agency will drop by about a ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest/ Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. A ...