The smashed dome of the ancient mosque, considered to be Turkey's oldest, covers rubble that used to be a prayer hall.. Erected in AD 638, the Habib-i Neccar was "the first mosque built within modern-day Turkey's borders", according to the government's culture portal.
The owner of a huge South African rhino conservation farm, the world's largest, said Monday that it would be sold at auction in April because it could no longer afford to breed the endangered animals.. South Africa is home to about 80 percent of the world's rhino population, but poaching has taken a huge toll despite increased protection efforts on both private reserves and at national and regional parks.
China on Monday accused the United States of flying balloons over its territory, hitting back against Washington's claims that Beijing has been operating a fleet of surveillance aircraft around the world.. "Any claim that the US government operates surveillance balloons over the PRC is false," National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Twitter.
Thousands of Israelis protested outside parliament on Monday against the government's controversial judicial reform plan, which aims to give lawmakers substantially more control over the supreme court. . Levin's plan would also give parliament the power to override supreme court decisions through a simple majority vote.
Turkey's splintered political opposition was supposed to agree Monday on a joint candidate to challenge Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year grip on power at the ballot box.. Unable to agree on a candidate for more than a year, Erdogan's opponents now have more time to come to a consensus with Monday's meeting postponed indefinitely.
The toll from last week's earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 35,000 on Monday, as rescue teams started to wind down the search for survivors and the aid effort shifted to hundreds of thousands of people made homeless.. The confirmed death toll rose to 35,224 as officials and medics said 31,643 people had died in Turkey and 3,581 in Syria after the February 6 earthquake, the fifth deadliest since the start of the 21st century.
The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is the fifth-deadliest this century.. A further 3.5 million are displaced. - 2023: 35,000 dead, Turkey and Syria - On February 6, a 7.8-magnitude quake strikes near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border.
Bobi, a 30-year-old guard dog who cheated death in his first days, is living out the end of his life as a celebrity in central Portugal after being declared the world's oldest dog ever.. A purebreed Rafeiro, a Portuguese livestock guard dog whose normal life expectancy is between 12 and 14, Bobi was not supposed to live at all, never mind make it this long.
A handful of protesters gathered in Phnom Penh on Monday to condemn the shutdown of one of Cambodia's last independent media outlets, with rights groups also slamming the portal's closure just months before national elections.. They added it was "a clear warning to other critical voices months before Cambodia's national elections".
At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, two orderlies carefully carry an injured soldier onto a medical bus.. It is however packed with the latest medical equipment and machines to help keep the most seriously injured troops alive.
