A family of six was pulled out alive after 101 hours under the rubble in Iskenderun, southern Turkey. A family was rescued from the debris of a collapsed building on Friday morning, in the Hatay region, one of the worst-hit areas in Turkey. A 17-year-old was saved in Gaziantep, 94 hours after the first of Monday’s deadly earthquakes. Friday morning brought glimmers of hope across a devastated landscape spanning the two sides of the Turkey-Syria border, as volunteers and workers pulled off seemingly miraculous rescues. The rare successes came even as Turkey crossed a grim milestone: Its death toll from…
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Rescue workers are digging into the rubble for a fifth consecutive day to find more survivors of the devastating earthquakes that have killed tens of thousands of people and swept away entire cities in Turkey and Syria this week. Operations continued on Friday, but hopes of finding people alive are fading away. “This collapsed building has been a graveyard,” said Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Kahramanmaras, a Turkish city close to the epicentre of Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake. A second magnitude 7.6 quake followed a few hours later amid hundreds of aftershocks. “Dozens of people have been taken out…
Three weeks after he laid down his tools and took up arms, Kashmiri carpenter Mukhtar Ahmed was killed in a firefight with Indian forces, who buried his remains in an unmarked grave hours from his family home. Mukhtar is among hundreds of rebels killed in combat and hastily interred by police in remote parts of Indian-administered Kashmir, the picturesque Himalayan region home to a long rebellion. Officials have justified the policy by saying it aims to stop “glamorising terrorists” during often violent anti-India demonstrations that accompany the public funerals of dead rebels. But these “martyrs’ graveyards”, as they are known…
The test of the Starship’s engines may have set a record for the most thrust ever produced by a single space rocket.SpaceX has conducted a successful test-firing of the engines on the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to eventually send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. The test on Thursday, called a static fire, of the 33 Raptor engines on the first-stage booster of SpaceX’s Starship took place at the private space company’s base in Texas and appeared to set a new record for the most thrust ever produced by a single space rocket. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said…
Republicans in the United States House of Representatives have continued their investigation into the family of Democratic President Joe Biden, making their first official requests for documents related to his son’s and brother’s foreign business pursuits. “If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security,” James Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, said in a statement on Thursday. Accusing the Biden family of “influence peddling”, Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, issued formal letters to son Hunter Biden and his business partner…
Vancouver Canucks defenceman Luke Schenn will miss the team’s matchup on Thursday against the New York Islanders. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; General manager Patrik Allvin announced prior to the game that Schenn sustained an upper-body injury and is day-to-day. The blue liner played in the Canucks’ game on Wednesday night against the New York Rangers. He appeared in discomfort and had to leave the ice during the second period, though he eventually returned for the third. The 33-year-old has three goals and 15 assists in 51 games this season and is rumoured as a potential moving piece…
United States President Joe Biden has pitched himself as a defender of retirement and healthcare programmes during a speech in the southern state of Florida, promising to protect Medicare and Social Security against any proposed cuts by Republicans. Speaking in the city of Tampa, Biden, a Democrat, leaned into statements he had previously made that the rival party could not be trusted to safeguard government benefits. “Look, I know that a lot of Republicans, their dream is to cut Social Security, Medicare. Well, let me say this. If that’s your dream, I’m your nightmare,” he told the audience at the University…
The Connecticut Sun acquired the rights to former UConn guard Tiffany Hayes from the Atlanta Dream on Thursday in exchange for the sixth overall pick of the 2023 WNBA Draft.The Dream initially owned the No 3 and 8 picks in the draft, however, they traded the third pick and their 2025 first-round selection to the Dallas Wings last month to acquire guard Allisha Gray. The Sun obtained the No. 6 pick in the draft in January in a three-team deal with the Liberty and Wings, with Connecticut sending 2021 WNBA MVP Jonquel Jones to New York in the trade.Hayes averaged…
Announcement comes after a Belarusian court sentenced a journalist of Polish origin to eight years in prison.Poland will close a key border crossing with Belarus until further notice, the Polish interior minister has said, as relations between Warsaw and Minsk sink to new lows. The already tense ties between Poland and Belarus were further strained on Wednesday when a journalist of Polish origin was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Belarusian court in a trial Warsaw says was politically motivated. “Due to the important interest of state security, I decided to suspend until further notice from 1200 [11:00…
Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock ‘n’ roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist said on Thursday. Bacharach died of natural causes on Wednesday at his home in the Los Angeles area with his family by his side, Tina Brausam told the Reuters news agency. His songs, many written in a 16-year collaboration with lyricist Hal David, were neither rock nor strictly pop. They filled American radio broadcasts and…