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SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) - Turkey's Emergency and Natural Disasters Administration said four people died on Thursday in heavy floods in Kastamonu state on Turkey's Black Sea coast. "Four people were killed in the floods in Kastamonu, and one…

SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) - A source in Tarin Kot administration said Taliban elements had taken control of most of the neighborhoods of the city, the administrative center of southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Most of these areas fallen…

SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) - Sudan foreign ministry announced  that Khartoum will hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) along with other officials wanted over the Darfur conflict, according to AFP. This came after…

SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck an area about 66 kilometers southeast of Bobon, Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday. It issued warnings about the risk of tsunamis after the earthquake.…

MOSCOW, Aug. 12 (YPA) - A helicopter carrying tourists on Russia's easternmost Kamchatka peninsula crashed, the Russian Emergency Ministry said Thursday. The Russian Emergency Ministry confirmed that the Mi-8 helicopter had 13…

DEIR EZZOR, Aug. 12 (YPA) - Two Syrian workers from the Department of Energy Transmission in Deir Ezzor were killed on Wednesday as a result of the explosion of a mine left behind by "ISIS" terrorists. Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted Chief…

LONDON, Aug. 11 (YPA) - Amnesty International has launched a human rights campaign, urging Saudis to sign a petition calling on King Salman to immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for their peaceful protest. "A…

DUBAI, Aug. 11 (YPA) – A major fire broke out Wednesday in a plastics factory in Jebel Ali area, in the Emirate of Dubai, to the west of the UAE. The General Directorate of Civil Defense in Dubai said that the fire occurred due to the…

SANAA, Aug. 11 (YPA) - Algerian Prime Minister Ayman Ben Abdelrahman has announced that at least 25 soldiers and 17 civilians have been killed in forest fires east of the capital. A number of other soldiers were injured while fighting fires…