Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling AKP party appears set to suffer a nationwide setback against the main opposition CHP, preliminary unofficial results showed on Sunday. Erdoğan's AKP is headed for defeat in all top five urban centres, including the largest metropolis Istanbul and capital Ankara, unofficial results from state news agency Anadolu showed. In Istanbul, incumbent mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu from secular CHP secured around 50% of votes, after almost half of the votes were count
The Israeli army is continuing its fight against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip, it said on Sunday, providing further details about an attack on a hospital. Among dozens of other targets, the military bombed a suspected PIJ command centre in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. Four people were killed in the attack, according to the Gaza health authorities. A tent in the courtyard w
Maryland's governor, Wes Moore, has declared a state of emergency in the US state following the collapse of a major bridge in Baltimore. In a post on the X social media platform, formerly Twitter, Moore wrote that his office is in close contact with US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of Baltimore, the county executive and the emergency services. They are working together across teams to be able to quickly request help from the US government, he wrote. Early Tuesday morning
Two people have been rescued following the collapse on Tuesday of a major bridge in Baltimore after a cargo ship hit the structure, the local fire authorities said. One person is in critical condition in hospital, Fire Department chief James Wallace said at a press conference. Earlier the Maryland Department of Transportation said there were "at least seven people" who fell from the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the city near Washington following its collapse after a ship crashed into it. The Balt
Three days after the terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall, 97 people are still being treated in hospitals, the head of the Moscow region's health administration said on Monday. The patients are spread across hospitals in the capital and the Moscow region, Lyudmila Bolatayeva said. According to Russian news agencies, the injuries suffered varied in severity. By the Russian authorities' most recent count, 137 people were killed and more than 180 injured in the attack on Friday evening. It can