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  • Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan leaving 32 survivors

    The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec 25, 2024. AP

    An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.

    The plane was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.

    Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those on board included five crew. A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.

    Another Russian news agency, Interfax quoted medical workers as saying that four bodies have been recovered and emergency workers at the scene as saying that both pilots, according to a preliminary assessment, died in the crash.

    The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3 km from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier.

    Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry initially said 25 people survived the crash, later revising that number to 27, 28, and then 29 as the search and rescue operation continued at the site of the crash, bringing the supposed death toll down.

    The Prosecutor General’s Office in Azerbaijan later reported that at least 32 people survived the crash, adding that the number wasn’t final. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that some of them were in critical condition.

    The number of survivors could mean that over 30 people may be dead.

    According to Kazakhstani officials, those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhstani and three Kyrgyzstani citizens, it said.

    RIA Novosti quoted Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, as saying that preliminary information showed that the pilot had chosen to divert to Kazakhstan’s Aktau after a bird strike on the aircraft led to “an emergency situation on board”.

    Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball. Other footage showed part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft, lying upside in the grass. The footage corresponded to the plane’s colors and its registration number.

    Some of the videos posted on social media showed survivors dragging fellow passengers away from the wreckage of the plane.

    Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the aircraft making what appeared to be a figure-right once nearing the airport in Aktau, its altitude moving up and down substantially over the last minutes of the flight before impacting the ground.

    FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the aircraft had faced “strong GPS jamming” which “ made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data”, referring to the information that allows flight-tracking websites to follow planes in flight. Russia has been blamed in the past for jamming GPS transmissions in the wider region.

    In a statement, Azerbaijan Airlines said it would keep members of the public updated and changed its social media banners to solid black.

    Azerbaijan’s state news agency, Azertac, said that an official delegation consisting of Azerbaijan’s emergency situations minister, the country’s deputy general prosecutor, and the vice president of Azerbaijan Airlines had been dispatched to Aktau to conduct an “on-site investigation”.

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who had been traveling to Russia, returned to Azerbaijan on hearing news of the crash, the president’s press service said. Aliyev was due to attend an informal meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a bloc of former Soviet countries founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in St. Petersburg.

    Aliyev expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on social media. “It is with deep sadness that I express my condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to those injured,” he wrote.

    He also signed a decree declaring Dec. 26 a day of mourning in Azerbaijan.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Aliyev on the phone and expressed his condolences, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

    Speaking at the CIS meeting in St. Petersburg, Putin also said that Russia’s Emergency Ministry sent a plane with equipment and medical workers to Kazakhstan to assist with the aftermath of the crash.

    Kazakhstani, Azerbaijani and Russian authorities said they were investigating the crash. Embraer told The Associated Press in a statement that the company is “ready to assist all relevant authorities.”

    AP

  • Irish lawmakers call for sanctions against Zionist regime

    TEHRAN — Lawmakers in Ireland, with the approval of a motion in the country’s parliament, have demanded the government impose sanctions on the Israeli regime over its massacre of Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

    According to IRNA citing media sources, the Irish lawmakers denounced Israel as a “criminal regime” and accused it of committing genocide in Gaza.

    The non-binding resolution, passed on Thursday, called on the government to impose trade, travel, and diplomatic sanctions on Israel in response to its atrocities against Palestinians.

    By approving the parliamentary motion, the lawmakers urged the government to immediately suspend all military and arms dealings with Israel, declare all trade transactions illegal, and prohibit the use of Irish airspace and airports for planes carrying weapons to Tel Aviv.

    The motion comes amid growing global protests against the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, and follows recent anti-Israel remarks by Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheál Martin.

    Martin had earlier also revealed his country’s intention to join South Africa’s legal challenge against Israel over the regime’s genocide of Palestinians at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

    IRNA

  • Lebanon says five dead in Israeli strikes on Nabatiyeh municipality

    Smoke billows during Israeli airstrikes in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on Oct. 16, 2024. (AFP)

    BEIRUT — Lebanon’s health ministry said five people were killed in Israeli strikes Wednesday on the municipality of the southern city of Nabatiyeh, after an official said the mayor was among the dead.

    “The Israeli enemy raid… on two buildings, that of the Nabatiyeh municipality and the union of municipalities, killed five people in a preliminary toll,” the ministry said in a statement, adding rescuers were searching for survivors under the rubble.

    The mayor of Nabatiyeh was among those killed, authorities said.

    “The mayor of Nabatiyeh, among others… was martyred. It’s a massacre,” Nabatiyeh governor Howaida Turk said, adding he had been in the municipality building.

    Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers also said several people were killed in the strike on the municipality building including mayor Ahmad Kahil.

    The Israeli military launched strikes in southern Beirut on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it would leave Hezbollah forces near his country’s border.

    An AFP journalist saw black smoke rising from Beirut’s Haret Hreik area after two strikes, which followed an Israeli military warning for residents to evacuate.

    One of the strikes targeted weapons “stockpiled by Hezbollah in an underground storage facility,” the military said.

    AN-AFP

  • Thousands gather in Turkiye following death of Hamas leader

    ISTANBUL — Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Saturday evening to denounce the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran earlier this week.

    Haniyeh was buried on Friday in Qatar, where he had been based. Israel, accused by Hamas, Iran and others of the attack, has not directly commented on it.

    Gathered at the call of several conservative and pro-government associations, demonstrators waved Turkish and Palestinian flags, as well as portraits of Haniyeh in front of the former Byzantine basilica Hagia Sophia.

    “Israel has murdered an important hero in a way that suits it: treacherously,” said Bilal Erdogan, the son of the Turkish head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    He added: “Haniyeh had called on millions of people to demonstrate (for Gaza). We respect his last wish.”

    On Wednesday, the Turkish leader condemned the “perfidious assassination” of his “brother” Haniyeh, which he said was the work of “Zionist barbarity.”

    Haniyeh, who frequently resided in Turkiye before the war in Gaza, was received in Istanbul in April by Erdogan, a fervent supporter of Hamas, which he describes as a “liberation movement.”

    Israel, the United States, the European Union and others have designated the Palestinian Islamist movement as a terrorist organization.

    Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its unprecedented October 7 attack which triggered the war in Gaza and resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.

    Militants also seized 251 hostages, 111 of whom are still held captive in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead.

    Israel’s campaign against Hamas has killed at least 39,550 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.

    AN – AFP

  • 3 pelajar lelaki dakwa dilarikan, dipukul, dirakam gambar bogel

    JOHOR BAHRU – Tiga pelajar lelaki berusia 14 tahun mendakwa dilarikan oleh sekumpulan lelaki dari sebuah pasar raya di sini sebelum dipukul dan dirakam gambar bogel, kelmarin.

    Ketua Polis Daerah Johor Bahru Utara, Balveer Singh Mahindar Singh, berkata pihaknya menerima aduan berhubung insiden itu daripada mangsa pada jam 6.45 pagi semalam.

    Beliau berkata, remaja berkenaan mendakwa dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 8 malam, mereka telah didatangi sekumpulan 10 lelaki, termasuk seorang daripadanya dikenali mangsa.

    “Mangsa mendakwa kemudian dilarikan dengan menggunakan tiga kereta ke satu lokasi yang tidak dapat dipastikan.

    “Seterusnya, suspek didakwa memukul dan merakam gambar bogel mangsa serta mengugut akan menularkan gambar itu sekiranya kejadian berkenaan terbongkar.

    “Kumpulan suspek itu kemudian dikata melarikan diri bersama barangan peribadi milik mangsa, dengan meninggalkan remaja terbabit di lokasi sama,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan, hari ini.

    Beliau berkata, mangsa yang dilaporkan mengalami kecederaan lebam di bahagian muka serta tangan, kemudian diselamatkan dengan bantuan orang awam dan dihantar ke hospital untuk rawatan sebelum tampil membuat laporan polis.

    “Susulan itu, polis menahan empat lelaki warga tempatan termasuk tiga juvana berusia dalam lingkungan umur 15 hingga 20 tahun, di Skudai kira-kira jam 8 malam tadi.

    “Polis turut merampas kenderaan yang dipercayai digunakan dalam kejadian itu, selain menjumpai semula barangan milik mangsa,” katanya.

    Balveer Singh berkata, keempat-empat suspek kini direman empat hari bermula hari ini hingga Khamis bagi membantu siasatan.

    Katanya, kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 363 Kanun Keseksaan, iaitu menculik yang jika sabit kesalahan, boleh dihukum penjara maksimum tujuh tahun dan hendaklah dikenakan denda.

    Selain itu, beliau berkata, kes juga disiasat mengikut Seksyen 324 Kanun Keseksaan, iaitu mendatangkan kecederaan dengan senjata.

    Jika sabit kesalahan, boleh dihukum penjara maksimum 10 tahun, atau dengan denda, atau dengan sebat, atau dengan mana-mana dua daripada hukuman-hukuman itu.

    Balveer Singh berkata, siasatan turut dijalankan mengikut Seksyen 506 Kanun Keseksaan, iaitu ugutan jenayah yang jika sabit kesalahan, boleh dihukum penjara maksimum tujuh tahun atau denda atau kedua-duanya.

    “Bagaimanapun, siasatan masih diteruskan untuk mengenal pasti motif kejadian. Usaha mengesan beberapa suspek yang masih bebas juga sedang giat dijalankan.

    “Polis meminta orang ramai yang ada maklumat berhubung kes ini supaya menyalurkannya kepada pegawai penyiasat, Inspektor Intan Khaizira, melalui talian 013-6062618,” katanya.

    BH ONLINE

  • Kanak-kanak Palestin berkata dipaksa buka pakaian oleh tentera Israel di selatan Gaza

    KOTA GAZA, Palestin — Kanak-kanak Palestin bercakap tentang dipaksa oleh tentera Israel membuka pakaian di bandar Al-Qarara di selatan Semenanjung Gaza.

    Pasukan tentera Israel bergerak ke bandar itu awal Rabu di bawah pengeboman berat, menurut seorang wartawan Anadolu.

    Dalam keterangan yang dikumpulkan oleh Anadolu, kanak-kanak berkata askar Israel telah menyerbu beberapa rumah di bandar itu dan memaksa mereka menanggalkan pakaian atas mereka.

    Beberapa orang, termasuk wanita, telah ditahan semasa operasi Israel.

    Anadolu merakam imej kanak-kanak yang telah dipaksa menanggalkan pakaian mereka ketika mereka tiba di Hospital Syahid Al-Aqsa di Deir al-Balah di tengah Semenanjung Gaza.

    Tiada komen Israel pada masa penerbitan laporan ini.

    Israel meneruskan serangan kejamnya ke atas Gaza sejak serangan Hamas 7 Oktober walaupun resolusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB menuntut gencatan senjata segera.

    ANADOLU, 5 Jun 2024

  • Ukraine berkata ia memusnahkan dua kapal Rusia di Crimea

    KIEV — Direktorat Perisikan Utama Kementerian Pertahanan Ukraine (GUR) mendakwa pada Khamis ia memusnahkan dua kapal Rusia di Laut Hitam dekat pantai Crimea.

    Kapal itu, yang dikenal pasti sebagai bot berkelajuan tinggi KS-701 Tunets, dihentam oleh dron laut tempur Magura V5, kata GUR dalam catatan Telegram.

    Operasi itu dijalankan oleh unit pengendali dron maritim Kumpulan 13 GUR di Teluk Vuzka di pantai barat Crimea.

    Menurut GUR, sejak awal tahun ini, Kumpulan 13 telah menenggelamkan empat kapal Rusia di Laut Hitam, iaitu kapal peluru berpandu Ivanovets, kapal pendaratan Caesar Kunikov, kapal peronda Sergey Kotov, dan kapal peronda berkelajuan tinggi Mangust.

    Xinhua

  • 4 rakyat Pakistan dibunuh pengawal sempadan Iran di wilayah barat daya terpencil, kata pegawai Pakistan

    Insiden itu berlaku berhampiran perkampungan sempadan Mashkel di wilayah Baluchistan pada Rabu, kata polis tempatan. (AFP)

    QUETTA — Pengawal sempadan Iran melepaskan tembakan ke arah kenderaan yang membawa sekumpulan warga Pakistan, membunuh empat orang dan mencederakan dua yang lain di kawasan terpencil di barat daya, kata pegawai Pakistan pada Khamis.

    Insiden itu berlaku berhampiran perkampungan sempadan Mashkel di wilayah Baluchistan pada Rabu, kata polis tempatan.
    Pentadbir kerajaan Sahibzada Asfand berkata tidak jelas mengapa tentera Iran melepaskan tembakan.

    Polis tempatan berkata mayat empat lelaki itu telah diserahkan kepada keluarga mereka.

    Tiada komen segera daripada Tehran atau Kementerian Luar Pakistan.

    Pasukan keselamatan di kedua-dua pihak sering menangkap penyeludup dan pemberontak yang beroperasi di wilayah itu.
    Pakistan dalam serangan tit-for-tat pada Januari menyasarkan tempat persembunyian militan yang didakwa di dalam Iran, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya sembilan orang sebagai tindakan balas terhadap serangan serupa oleh Iran.

    AN memetik AP

  • Lokasi helikopter presiden masih tidak diketahui dalam usaha menyelamat

    TEHRAN — Lokasi sebenar helikopter yang membawa Presiden Iran Ebrahim Raisi, yang mengalami pendaratan kasar di barat laut Iran, masih tidak diketahui kerana pasukan mencari dan menyelamat menghadapi keadaan cuaca buruk dan rupa bumi yang mencabar untuk mengesan tapak itu, menurut laporan.

    “Cuaca sangat berkabus, yang menyukarkan usaha menyelamat. Lokasi sebenar helikopter Presiden masih belum diketahui,” lapor wartawan IRIB News dari kawasan yang dipercayai kejadian itu berlaku.

    “Pasukan penyelamat baharu dan beberapa pendaki gunung telah menyertai operasi mencari dan menyelamat.”

    Wartawan itu menambah, “Cuaca sangat sejuk; disebabkan keadaan cuaca buruk, pencarian udara dan penerbangan helikopter tidak dapat dilakukan, dan penyelamatan sedang dilakukan di darat.”

    Insiden itu berlaku pada Ahad di hutan Dizmar antara bandar Varzaqan dan Jolfa di wilayah Azerbaijan Timur ketika presiden itu pulang dari acara untuk merasmikan empangan dengan Presiden Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

    Pasukan penyelamat menghadapi cabaran besar berikutan kabus tebal di kawasan pergunungan terpencil.

    IRNA

  • Tiga warga Syria hilang selepas kapal kargo karam di perairan Romania

    BUCHAREST — Pasukan penyelamat Romania pada Sabtu menjelajah Laut Hitam untuk mencari tiga kelasi Syria yang hilang apabila kapal kargo mereka karam di luar pantai, kata pihak berkuasa tentera laut.

    Kapal Mohammed Z tenggelam bersama 11 anak kapal, 26 batu nautika dari bandar Romania Sfantu Gheorghe di delta Danube di Laut Hitam pagi Sabtu, kata pegawai dalam satu kenyataan.

    Kapal yang belayar di bawah bendera Tanzania itu membawa sembilan warga Syria dan dua warga Mesir, katanya.

    Selepas menerima amaran pada “sekitar 4:00 pagi,” pihak berkuasa tentera laut dan polis sempadan telah dihantar, dengan dua kapal komersial berhampiran turut menyertai operasi mencari dan menyelamat.

    Lapan kelasi telah diselamatkan oleh salah satu kapal komersial berhampiran, manakala pencarian tiga lagi, “semua warga Syria,” diteruskan, kata kenyataan itu.

    Punca kemalangan tidak jelas.

    Menurut laman web pakar Marine Traffic, kapal itu berlepas dari pelabuhan Turki Mersin dan menuju ke pelabuhan Romania di Sulina.

    AN memetik AFP

  • Sekurang-kurangnya 6 terbunuh dalam serangan masjid barat Afghanistan

    HERAT, Afghanistan, 30 April (Xinhua) — Lelaki bersenjata menyerang sebuah masjid di wilayah Herat, Afghanistan barat pada petang Isnin, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya enam orang, penduduk tempatan memberitahu Xinhua.

  • Gunung berapi Ibu Indonesia meletus, abu sehingga 3.5 km

    JAKARTA, 28 April (Xinhua) — Gunung berapi Ibu di Pulau Halmahera di wilayah timur Maluku Utara Indonesia meletus awal Ahad, menurut Pusat Vulkanologi dan Tebatan Bahaya Geologi (PVMBG) negara itu.

    PVMBG melaporkan gunung berapi itu meletus sekitar 00:37 pagi waktu tempatan selama kira-kira 206 saat, melontarkan abu sehingga 3,500 meter di atas puncaknya.

    Berdiri setinggi 1,325 meter di atas paras laut, gunung berapi Ibu diklasifikasikan sebagai di peringkat bahaya kedua, di bawah paras tertinggi IV.

    PVMBG menyeru orang ramai supaya tidak melakukan aktiviti dalam radius 3.5 kilometer dari kawah.

    Terletak di Lingkaran Api Pasifik, Indonesia merupakan antara negara yang mempunyai gunung berapi terbanyak di dunia.

  • 19 kanak-kanak maut, disyaki wabak campak di timur laut Nigeria

    ABUJA, 27 April (Xinhua) — Sekurang-kurangnya 19 kanak-kanak terkorban setakat ini akibat wabak campak yang disyaki di negeri Adamawa di timur laut Nigeria, kata pihak berkuasa tempatan pada Sabtu.

    Lebih 200 kanak-kanak disyaki terjejas oleh wabak campak di kawasan kerajaan tempatan Mubi Utara, Felix Tangwami, pesuruhjaya kesihatan di Adamawa, memberitahu pemberita pada Sabtu.

    Laporan rasmi menunjukkan 19 kematian itu berpunca daripada komplikasi daripada wabak campak, Tangwami berkata, sambil menyatakan perkembangan itu membawa kepada pengerahan tenaga perubatan dan ubat-ubatan yang cepat kepada komuniti terjejas.

    Kanak-kanak yang mengalami jangkitan teruk akan dirujuk ke hospital pakar, katanya, sambil menyalahkan ibu bapa kerana enggan memberi imunisasi kepada anak mereka.

    Campak adalah jangkitan virus yang biasa dalam kalangan kanak-kanak bawah lima tahun tetapi mudah dicegah melalui vaksin. Ia merebak melalui udara melalui titisan pernafasan yang dihasilkan daripada batuk atau bersin.

  • Kubur besar di kompleks perubatan dedah jenayah pendudukan Israel

    BAITULMAQDIS — Pasukan penyelamat menemui mayat ratusan rakyat Palestin dari kubur besar di Kompleks Perubatan Al-Nasser di Khan Yunis, selepas tentera pendudukan Israel berundur dari bandar itu.

    Pertahanan Awam melaporkan mayat kira-kira 190 rakyat Palestin telah ditemui dari kubur besar yang ditemui di Kompleks yang disebutkan di atas, dan menyatakan bahawa banyak mayat telah dibogelkan sebelum dibunuh dan majoriti mangsa adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak.

    Pertahanan Awam mengesahkan kehilangan kira-kira 2,000 penduduk Semenanjung Gaza dan kira-kira 500 dalam pembunuhan beramai-ramai, menunjukkan bahawa pendudukan menggunakan kehilangan paksa dan pembersihan etnik terhadap penduduk Gaza secara sistematik dan sengaja.

    Pertahanan awam menjelaskan terdapat mayat yang telah menguap dan bertukar menjadi abu, yang memerlukan bantuan dan campur tangan institusi antarabangsa untuk mengetahui jenis senjata yang digunakan oleh pendudukan.

    Sebaliknya, Pejabat Akhbar di Gaza mengumumkan pendudukan telah menyediakan tanah perkuburan di dalam dinding kompleks untuk menyembunyikan jenayahnya dan membunuh berpuluh-puluh orang yang kehilangan tempat tinggal, cedera, sakit dan kakitangan perubatan.

    SANA

  • Tujuh orang awam terbunuh dalam serangan udara Israel ke atas bandar Rafah di Gaza

    GAZA — Tujuh orang awam, termasuk seorang wanita dan tiga kanak-kanak, terbunuh malam tadi dalam serangan udara Israel yang menyasarkan tapak dan struktur kediaman di bandar Rafah di selatan Semenanjung Gaza.

    Menurut wartawan Wafa pesawat pejuang Israel menyasarkan tapak dan struktur kediaman yang melindungi orang kehilangan tempat tinggal di bandar Rafah, membunuh tujuh orang awam, termasuk seorang wanita dan tiga kanak-kanak.

    WAFA