İlk olarak Hindistan'da ortaya çıkan Delta varyantı tüm dünyaya korku salmaya devam ediyor. Birçok ülkede aşılama kampanyalarıyla birlikte yaşanan rahatlama tehlikeye girdi, hükümetler peş peşe yeni kısıtlamaları açıklamaya başladı. Delta yüzünden sıkıntı yaşayan ülkelerin başını çeken Avustralya'da en büyük şehir Sydney'de sokağa çıkma kısıtlaması ilan edildi.
#AvustralyaArkeologlar, Aborjinlerin Avustralya'ya tahmin edilenden en az 18 bin yıl önce geldiklerini gösteren yeni kanıtlara ulaştı. Aborjinlerin 65 bin yıldır Avustralya'da olduğunun işaretlerini veren bu yeni bulgular, ülkenin kuzeyindeki Northern Territory bölgesinde kayalarda yapılan kazılarda gelişmiş eserlere rastlanıldı. İşte detaylar…
#AborjinlerAvustralya'nın kuzeyinde bulunan Northern Territory ve Queenslandeyaletlerini etkisi altına alan Lam ve Marcia kasırgaları hayatı olumsuz etkiledi. Kasırga yüzünden 134okul ve 43 anaokulu kapatıldı, bir evin balkonu da yıkıldı. O anlar amatör kamera tarafından an be an kaydedildi.
#AvustralyaAvustralya'nın Northern Territory bölgesinde yüzünü tişörtle kapatan soyguncu, ATM'yi patlatırken az daha kendini öldürüyordu. Northern Territory bölgesinde yüzünü tişörtle kapatan bir genç, ATM'yi soymak için harekete geçti. Yanında getirdiği patlayıcıyı ATM'ye yerleştiren soyguncu, fitili ateşledi. Ancak fitilinin kısa olduğu patlayıcı, talihsiz soyguncunun uzaklaşmasına fırsat olmadan patladı. Patlamayla birlikte alevler içerisinde kalan talihsiz adam, savrulup beton zemine düştü. Panik içerisinde ayağa kalkan şüpheli genç, başına sardığı tişörtü çıkarıp, yalın ayak koşarak olay yerinden uzaklaştı.
#AvustralyaBAGHDAD - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden held talks with Iraqi leaders on Friday focused on bridging the country's sectarian divide ahead of a complete American military pullout in 2011. He also met with Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. officer in Iraq, as well as Christopher Hill, Washington's ambassador to Baghdad.
Of course we wish the prime minister well. Blood pressure is a tricky state of affairs. It can go up or down and the dangers are the same; especially during hot summers. In a way blood pressure is like political pressure. It can go up or down and can be equally dangerous; especially during hot political summers.
Newsflash: Turkey has a pivotal opportunity in its battle against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the kind that only occurs once every thousand years. Since the PKK’s establishment in the 1970s, it has focused its operational strategy on Turkey, utilizing foreign countries and state sponsors of terror along the way. However, an integral node of the PKK’s success is about to fail, as the outfit is about to lose all of its foreign sanctuaries. If Ankara acts to alleviate the Kurdish problem at home through domestic social and political reforms, then Turkey has a historic opportunity to turn the PKK into a marginal group.
ISTANBUL - Çukurova Group’s Genel Enerji, which started pumping oil from northern Iraq with its partners this month, is merging with Britain’s Heritage Oil. Heritage will pay $2.45 billion in stock to Genel Enerji shareholders. The new firm, to be named HeritaGE, will be the biggest oil producer in northern Iraq.
An extremely important development took place Monday in northern Iraq. You can certainly read about it in yesterday’s papers. For the first time, the Regional Kurdish Administration in northern Iraq allowed a private group, one partnered with Çukurova’s Genel Enerji, to extract its own petroleum and export it through Turkey.
ISTANBUL – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged the leaders of divided Cyprus to accelerate peace talks in a report released on Thursday, as the newly elected Turkish Cypriot government expressed pessimism about the future success of the negotiations. (UPDATED)
ANKARA - The US sees a new and positive approach on the PKK issue on both sides of the border. Commenting on the anti US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s recent visit to Turkey, Richard Schmierer says al-Sadr’s apparent wish to participate in the political system is a positive development
ISTANBUL - Five mortar shells fell in southeastern Turkish territory on Monday after soldiers, thought to be Iranian, opened fire on the positions of a breakaway faction of the terror organization PKK in northern Iraq, Turkish local officials said.
ISTANBUL - Iran urged neighboring Iraq on Monday to "pay special attention" to terrorist groups operating in its border areas, a week after Baghdad condemned the Iranian bombing of bases of a breakaway faction of the terror organization PKK in northern Iraq.