A car burst open on Friday when a supporting pylon collapsed, killing one person and injuring 10, including children, when they plummeted onto the mountainside.

Turkey could play an influential role in the International Lunar Research Station, says space analyst.

The blaze broke out during construction work in the basement of a 16-storey building in the Besiktas area of Turkey’s economic capital.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conceded defeat in the country’s local elections, saying the vote was a ‘turning point’ for his party after two decades in power.

Using Afghanistan as a homebase, Isis cells have hit targets in Russia, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey this year. Baloch separatists have also stepped up their attacks on Chinese interests in South Asia.

Local officials said that the boat, filled with migrants, begun sinking overnight and on Friday many ambulances were standing by at the port of Kabatepe near Gokceada.

Ibrahim K. was sentenced to 18 months in jail for kicking to death a stray cat, but was released for good behaviour, sparking indignation among animal welfare groups.

Sweden became the 32nd member of Nato in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment and capping two years of tortuous diplomacy.

Sweden clears the last hurdle to join Nato, ending the Nordic country’s long history of neutrality and military non-alignment.

Huawei is expanding cloud services to Egypt in March and will soon open an AI cloud computing centre in Hong Kong, its first outside mainland China.

On Monday only 51 out of 199 MPs voted on the agenda as almost all members of PM Viktor Orban’s ruling coalition stayed away. Hungary maintains close ties with Russia.

The accused, who appeared to be wearing a suicide vest, was detained unharmed during the incident at a plant owned by US firm P&G in Istanbul.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in response to a call by the group’s leaders to target Jews and Christians.

Israel has urged the UNRWA boss to resign over the deepening row, as Turkey questions the suspension of funds by some donor countries and the UN chief promises accountability, including criminal prosecution.

Turkey’s ruling party said Sweden’s tougher stance on Kurdish militants was key to winning approval. Hungary remains only Nato ally not to have ratified Sweden’s accession.

After 20 months of delay, the Turkish general assembly voted 287-55 to approve the application Sweden made in 2022 in response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

From Indonesia to India, the world’s most populous democracies will be heading to the polls in Asia this year, a region which has traditionally been the largest gold consumer.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying 4 crew from Texas start-up Axiom Space lifted off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral for a 36-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory.

The strikes hit targets such as caves and bunkers, and ‘many’ militants were ‘neutralised’, Turkey’s defence ministry says.

The seizure also comes after weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa condemned Russia’s attacks and said Tokyo would allocate US$37 million to Kyiv for a drone detection system.

The top US diplomat, making his fourth such trip since the start of the conflict, says the border between Israel and Lebanon is ‘one of the real concerns’.

The US Commerce Department said imports of tin mill products – silver metal used in cans for food and paint – from the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and the UK are not being dumped

Turkish winery Vinkara has been making sparkling wine since 2009, and its Yasasin, made with the ‘Turkish pinot noir’ grape, won a medal in France for the world’s best sparkling wine in 2020.

The US secretary of state will also visit Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt for a week of diplomacy on Israel’s war in Gaza.

Dr Cecilia Fan hopes sharing her experiences of helping survivors after last February’s earthquake in Turkey will encourage more medical specialists to join relief efforts.

US Treasury said it had sanctioned head of Currency Exchangers Association in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. Iran-backed Houthis have been attacking ships in the region, forcing cargo ships to avoid the Suez Canal.

Turkey’s president stepped up his attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and likened Israel’s attacks on Gaza to the treatment of Jewish people by the Nazis.

The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approved Sweden’s Nato membership bid in a key step towards enlarging the Western bloc after many months of delays.