TOKYO — Mycoplasma pneumonia cases are rapidly increasing in Japan, with the weekly number of patients per medical institution reaching a record high, local media reported.
The number of mycoplasma pneumonia patients has steadily risen in Japan since June. For the week ending Sept. 29, an average of 1.64 cases per medical institution was reported, marking the highest figure since data collection began in 1999, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing health officials.
Mycoplasma pneumonia is a bacterial respiratory infection that spreads through droplets and physical contact, causing symptoms like fever, fatigue, and persistent coughing.
Children are particularly susceptible to infection. In severe cases, patients may develop pneumonia or weakness due to fever, potentially requiring hospitalization. In rare instances, complications such as encephalitis, a brain inflammation, can occur.
As mycoplasma pneumonia typically spikes between fall and winter, Japan’s health officials anticipate a further rise in cases.
Bekas peguam, N. Pathmanabhan bersama tertuduh lain, T Thilaiyalaga dan R Matan selepas perbicaraan kes bunuh Jutawan Kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya (gambar kecil) di Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam. – Foto fail NSTP/22 Januari 2013
PUTRAJAYA — Bekas peguam, N Pathmanabhan dan dua lagi kekal dihukum gantung sampai mati atas kesalahan membunuh jutawan kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya dan tiga lagi pada 2010.
Keputusan sebulat suara itu dibuat panel tiga hakim mahkamah persekutuan dipengerusikan Ketua Hakim Negara, Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat bersama Datuk Nordin Hassan, Datuk Abu Bakar Jais.
Dalam penghakiman itu, Tengku Maimun yang membacakan keputusan berkata panel sebulat suara menolak permohonan dan hukuman mati terhadap mereka dikekalkan.
Jutawan kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, dibunuh dengan kejam bersama-sama tiga rakan yang lain di Morib, Selangor pada September 2010. Mayat dibuang dan dibakar di ladang ternakan ayam dekat Tanjung Layang, Morib.
Dalam keputusan sebulat suara, panel tiga hakim diketuai Ketua Hakim Negara Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat memutuskan hukuman mati dikekalkan kepada dua pemohon iaitu Pathmanabhan, 55, dan T Thilaiyalagan, 33.
“Permohonan ditolak, hukuman gantung dikekalkan,” katanya yang bersidang bersama Datuk Nordin Hassan dan Datuk Abu Bakar Jais.
Dua pemohon itu memohon hukuman mati itu diganti dengan hukuman penjara berikutan Akta Pemansuhan Hukuman Mati Mandatori 2023 yang berkuat kuasa pada 4 Julai 2023.
Di bawah undang-undang baharu itu, hakim mempunyai budi bicara untuk mengenakan hukuman mati atau pemenjaraan selama tempoh tidak kurang 30 tahun tetapi tidak melebihi 40 tahun, dan jika tidak dijatuhi hukuman mati, hendaklah juga dikenakan sebatan tidak kurang 12 kali bagi pesalah lelaki berusia di bawah 50 tahun.
Bagaimanapun dalam prosiding hari ini, seorang lagi pemohon R Kathavarayan, 44, yang pada mulanya menfailkan permohonan semakan yang sama menarik balik permohonan itu hari ini.
Justeru, hukuman mati terhadap bekas pekerja ladang itu kekal seperti diputuskan Mahkamah Persekutuan pada 16 Mac 2017.
Dalam prosiding hari ini, pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Datuk Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar dan Tetralina Ahmed Fauzi manakala peguam Manjeet Singh Dhillon mewakili Pathmanabhan serta Thilaiyalagan diwakili peguam Amer Hamzah Arshad.
Pada 23 Mei 2013, Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam menjatuhi semua perayu hukuman mati selepas didapati bersalah membunuh Sosilawati, 47; pegawai bank Noorhisham Mohamad, 38; peguam Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32; dan pembantu Sosilawati, Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44.
Mereka didapati bersalah melakukan kesalahan itu di Lot 2001, Jalan Tanjong Layang, Tanjung Sepat, di Banting, Selangor antara jam 8.30 dan 9.45 malam pada 30 Ogos 2010.
Pada 4 Disember 2015, Pathmanabhan, R Matan, 33, Thilaiyalagan dan Kathavarayan gagal dalam rayuan mereka di Mahkamah Rayuan.
Dua tahun kemudian, iaitu 16 Mac 2017, Pathmanabhan, Thilaiyalagan, dan Kathavarayan kekal ke tali gantung, selepas sekali lagi rayuan mereka ditolak Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Bagaimanapun, Matan bernasib baik apabila rayuan pekerja ladang itu dibenarkan dan dia dilepas dan dibebaskan oleh lima panel hakim yang bersidang kerana kekurangan bukti berhubung kes pembunuhan itu.
IPOH — Peguam didakwa di Mahkamah Majistret, di sini hari ini, atas pertuduhan mencederakan seorang wanita gara-gara berebut tempat letak kereta.
Tertuduh, Goh Suan Poi, 72, didakwa di hadapan Majistret Evangelin Simon Silvaraj mengikut Seksyen 323 Kanun Keseksaan.
Wanita itu berdepan hukuman penjara setahun atau denda sehingga RM2,000 atau kedua-duanya sekali, jika sabit kesalahan.
Dia didakwa dengan sengaja menyebabkan kecederaan terhadap Ashvinder Kaur, 35, di kawasan parkir sebuah pasar raya di Ulu Kinta, di sini, pada jam 6.46 petang, 18 Februari lalu.
Suan Poi yang diwakili peguam, Khairil Azwar Khalil, mengaku tidak bersalah sebelum Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Monisha Pandey menawarkan ikat jamin RM1,000.
Khairil Azwar memohon ikat jamin rendah, mengambil kira tertuduh pernah menjadi guru bermula 1976 hingga 1997 sebelum bertukar kerjaya sebagai peguam pada 1998 hingga sekarang, selain memberi kerjasama baik kepada polis.
Mahkamah kemudian memerintahkan ikat jamin RM500 dengan seorang penjamin dan menetapkan 11 November depan untuk sebutan semula kes.
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a placard reading “Every Day is Oct. 7” while a banner reads “From the Sea to the River” during a demonstration simultaneous with a pro-Israeli commemoration marking the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP)
AMSTERDAM — Police arrested several pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam Monday, as tensions erupted around events in the city to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
Riot officers carrying shields and batons deployed in force in the Dutch capital as people gathered in the Dam central square to mourn those killed one year ago.
While the pro-Israeli group was listening to speeches and concerts, counter-demonstrators began to shout slogans.
Police grabbed one middle-aged woman and hauled her into an armored van, an AFP journalist on the ground witnessed.
Nearby, police surrounded several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators with faces covered and waving flags, to keep them separated from the Israeli gathering.
Police warned them to disperse but later announced they had arrested the group “for breaking the law on public gatherings.”
French tourists Myriam Acef, 23, and Ines Khraroubu, 21, told AFP: “We were there right at the beginning but we only stayed a bit because we quickly saw the police were surrounding everyone.”
“We were pushed around a bit with shields and we were stuck for around 20-30 minutes,” Acef said.
Prime Minister Dick Schoof and other top Dutch political leaders were attending commemorations in an Amsterdam synagogue to mark the October 7 attack. Away from Amsterdam, pro-Palestinian protesters staged sit-ins at several stations around the country.
The October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
The attackers took 251 people hostage into Gaza, where 97 are still being held, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
Hours later, Israel launched a military offensive that has razed swathes of Gaza and displaced nearly all of its 2.4 million residents at least once amid an unrelenting humanitarian crisis.
According to data provided by the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, 41,909 Palestinians, the majority civilians, have been killed there since the start of the war. Those figures have been deemed reliable by the United Nations.
Riot police officers stand in a street as molotov cocktails explode outside the government building, thrown by opposition protesters who demand the resignation of the government and the release of opposition MP Ervin Salianji, in Tirana, on October 7, 2024. (AFP)
TIRANA — Clashes broke out late Monday in Tirana between police and opposition protesters seeking that longtime leftist Prime Minister Edi Rama resigns, leaving 10 officers injured police said.
A few thousand people gathered in the Albanian capital at demonstrations organized by the country’s right-wing opposition, according to an AFP reporter.
Scuffles first broke out in front of the government building when demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon and some of them threw Molotov cocktails.
The crowd then moved toward the headquarters of Rama’s Socialist Party where more Molotov cocktails were thrown, setting on fire the entrance door and a banner with the prime minister’s image, the AFP journalist reported.
The protesters, who want Rama to step down and a caretaker government to take over until next year’s parliamentary elections, also targeted the interior ministry headquarters and the city hall with Molotov cocktails. A bus station and several garbage containers were set on fire.
Police, deployed in large numbers, used teargas in a bid to disperse the crowd moving toward the parliament.
“So far 10 police officers have been injured in the attacks with Molotov cocktails, pyrotechnics and solid objects,” a police statement said.
Meanwhile, according to the AFP reporter at least three demonstrators were mildly injured by Molotov cocktails during the nearly four-hour protest.
Police urged the demonstrators to stop attacking them and state institutions, warning that measures were being taken to identify those involved in the attacks.
“This is the first step toward civil disobedience,” Flamur Noka, an official of the main opposition Democratic Party, told reporters in front of the party’s headquarter.
“We will continue our battle of civil disobedience until Rama resigns and a caretaker government is formed,” he said.
The protest was held a week after opposition lawmakers threw their chairs out of parliament and set them on fire in protest at a prison sentence handed to one of their peers.
Ervin Salianji, an official of the Democratic Party, in September was found guilty of “giving false testimony” in a drug trafficking case that targeted the brother of a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party.
The opposition described the MP’s arrest and conviction as a “blind act of revenge and political terror against the Democratic Party,” accusing Rama of being behind it.
Democratic Party leader and former prime minister Sali Berisha said earlier that Monday’s protests would be the “battle of our lives.”
Berisha has been under house arrest since December last year on charges of “passive corruption.”
He has rejected the accusations against him as politically motivated.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Some 200 people may have been buried after a landslide occurred Monday in a port area of Manacapuru, Brazil’s Amazonas state, according to official sources.
The Military Firefighters Corps of the State of Rio de Janeiro said that the land supporting part of the Terra Preta Port, located on the banks of the Amazon River, slid due to unknown reasons. Although the area was under construction, the port continued to operate as a key transportation point.
It is estimated that over 200 people were loading and unloading goods at the site when the accident occurred. Initial reports confirmed that an entire family on a floating boat was buried. Additionally, debris from boats, pipes, houses, and vehicles has been found in the waters of the Amazon River.
The landslide could be related to riverbank erosion, which has been worsened by the severe drought affecting the Amazon region.
The Manacapuru’s city council issued a statement, deeply regretting the accident, and detailed that teams of the Civil Defense, the Military Firefighters Corps and other sectors are working intensively at the site to rescue those trapped.
People take shelter in a protected room as the siren goes off at a building in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon fired about five rockets at central Israel on Monday night, setting off sirens around Tel Aviv but causing no casualties, according to Israeli authorities. Local residents reported hearing explosions in the sky over central Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/JINI via Xinhua)
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT — Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon fired about five rockets at central Israel on Monday night, setting off sirens around Tel Aviv but causing no casualties, according to Israeli authorities. Local residents reported hearing explosions in the sky over central Israel.
The Israeli military stated that “approximately five projectiles” were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon, around 100 km from the border. Several rockets were intercepted, while others landed in open areas.
Eli Bin, director-general of Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency pre-hospital medical and blood services organization, reported that no injuries have been confirmed.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah confirmed in a statement that it carried out “a missile attack on the Glilot base of the (Israeli) Military Intelligence Unit 8200 located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv” on Monday evening. “The Islamic Resistance will remain ready to defend Lebanon and its people,” the military group said.
Throughout Monday, central Israel was targeted three times by rocket and missile barrages from the Gaza Strip, Yemen, and Lebanon. In addition, two drones were launched at Rishon LeZion, a city south of Tel Aviv, from Iraq earlier in the morning. The Israeli military reported that Hezbollah fired a total of 190 rockets throughout Monday.
Earlier on Monday, Israeli warplanes conducted extensive airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the Beqaa area, and Beirut. According to the Israeli military, over 120 Hezbollah targets were struck, including infrastructure sites, launchers, command and control centers, and a weapons storage facility.
Since Sept. 23, the Israeli army has conducted intensive attacks on Lebanon in a dangerous escalation with Hezbollah, fueling concerns of a wider regional conflict as the war between Hamas and Israel continues in the Gaza Strip.
LUSAKA — At least 10 miners died while five others sustained injuries when a pit they were conducting mining activities in central Zambia’s Mumbwa district collapsed, the police said on Monday.
Charity Munganga Chanda, the Central Province Police Commissioner, said the accident happened in the early hours of Monday when an unknown number of people went to conduct mining activities at the pit.
“During the course of their mining activities, the earth collapsed on them. Rescue efforts led to the recovery of six miners with injuries, while nine died on the spot. Unfortunately, one of the six injured miners later succumbed to his injuries,” she said in a statement.
She added that efforts to rescue any remaining miners trapped in the debris were still underway while the police were working with other relevant authorities to ascertain the exact number of people who were in the mine at the time of the accident.
President Hakainde Hichilema described the incident as sad and expressed the concern that the country was losing people due to illegal mining activities.
LONDON — A major incident has been declared following a school bus crash in County Down in Northern Ireland, local media reported on Monday.
The double-decker bus was carrying more than 60 passengers, with over 50 sustaining minor injuries and eight being treated for more serious injuries at the scene, the BBC reported.
Pictures on social media show the vehicle on its side in a field off the road. Police called it a “serious road traffic collision.”
According to the report, most of those aboard are students from Strangford College, a secondary school.
The report said that Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has deployed five fire appliances and a specialist team is at the scene.
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT — Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third largest city Haifa on Monday as Israeli forces looked poised to expand ground raids into south Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread conflict across the Middle East.
Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and launched another strike on Tiberias, 65 km (40 miles) away.
Hezbollah said it targeted areas north of Haifa with missiles later in the day. Israel’s military said around 135 projectiles had entered Israeli territory on Monday as of 5 p.m. (1400 GMT).
Ten people were reported injured in the Haifa area and two others further south in central Israel.
Israel’s military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli soldiers were killed in border-area combat, taking the military death toll inside Lebanon so far to 11.
Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a municipal building in the border-area town of Bint Jbeil, and that other aerial attacks on Sunday killed 22 people in southern and eastern Lebanese towns.
The Israeli military has described its ground operation as “localized, limited and targeted” but it has steadily increased in scale since it began last week.
On Monday, the military said soldiers from its 91st Division had moved into southern Lebanon after a year of operations in northern Israel, where Israeli forces have been engaged in cross-border fire with Hezbollah for the past year.
Oct 7 (Reuters) — A Russian missile hit a Palau-flagged vessel in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa on Monday, killing one Ukrainian national and injuring five foreign nationals, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
The attack was the second on a ship in as many days in southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s Restoration Ministry earlier said a Russian missile had damaged a civilian Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged vessel loaded with corn in the port of Pivdennyi on Sunday.
Hezbollah fired rockets at Haifa, Israel’s third largest city as Israel’s military said around 135 projectiles had entered Israeli territory on Monday as of 5 p.m. (1400 GMT).
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and later areas north of Haifa in a second salvo of missiles.
It also said it launched another strike on Tiberias, 65 km (40 miles) away on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
An Israeli military statement said five rockets were launched towards Haifa, also a major Mediterranean port, from Lebanon and interceptors were fired at them. “Fallen projectiles were identified in the area. The incident is under review.”
Ten people were reported injured in the Haifa area and two others further south in central Israel.
Israel also intercepted two drones launched early on Monday from the east after sirens blared in the central areas of Rishon Lezion and Palmachim, the military said.
South Lebanon
The military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli soldiers were killed in border-area combat, taking the military death toll inside Lebanon so far to 11.
It said it also carried out a targeted strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where a thick plume of smoke could be seen.
Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a municipal building in the border-area town of Bint Jbeil, and that other aerial attacks on Sunday killed 22 people in a swathe of southern and eastern towns.
Tel Aviv
Hamas, which triggered the Gaza war with a surprise attack on Israel a year ago today, targeted Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv with a missile salvo on the anniversary, the group said, setting off sirens in central areas of the country.
Many Israelis have regained confidence in their long vaunted military and intelligence apparatus after a series of deadly blows to the command structure of Hezbollah, Iran’s most formidable Middle East proxy force, in Lebanon in recent weeks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country’s airstrikes at a special cabinet meeting in Jerusalem marking the Gaza war anniversary.
“We are changing the security reality in our region, for our children’s sake, for our future, to ensure that what happened on Oct. 7 does not happen again,” Netanyahu said.
TEHRAN — Leaders of Iran’s Muslim Sunni community have declared their support for the country’s decisive military action against the Zionist regime of Israel.
In a letter addressed to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Monday, thousands of Sunni clerics from across the country said that Iran’s missile operation last week against the Israeli regime was a relief for the defenseless population in Palestine and the freedom-seeking people of the world.
They said the operation gave a new momentum to the ongoing fight against an Israeli regime which they described as the “illegitimate offspring of the global imperialism”.
The Iranian Sunni clerics also hailed Ayatollah Khamenei’s recent Friday prayer sermons as enlightening and a major disappointment for the enemy.
They also reiterated that the Sunni community in Iran will remain committed to the goals and ideals of the Islamic Revolution.
GAZA — At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured in an Israeli raid on the Abu Qamar station area in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, sources told Xinhua on Monday.
Palestinian medics said that 13 bodies were received at Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia city following an Israeli attack on a gathering of Palestinians in the Abu Qamar station area. Dozens of injured individuals were also transferred to the hospital.
Palestinian security sources said an Israeli aircraft targeted a gathering of Palestinians with at least one missile.
The attack came as the Israeli army continues its ground operation in Jabalia city and its camp for the second day in a row.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli army called on residents of areas in northern Gaza Strip to evacuate.
“To the residents of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, Beit Lahia and all residents in evacuation areas … IDF forces are currently operating with great force in this area,” the army said in a press statement.
“For your safety, you must evacuate these areas immediately to the newly created humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi through Salah al-Din Street,” it added.
Since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, 41,909 Palestinians have been killed, and 97,303 others injured in the Gaza Strip, with a significant proportion of them being children and women, according to health authorities in Gaza on Monday.
Activists gather in New Delhi in solidarity with Palestine and to demand the Indian government ceases ties with Israel on Oct. 7, 2024. (CPIML)
NEW DELHI — India’s largest civil society organizations staged protests in cities across the country on Monday demanding the Indian government stop arms exports to Israel, as they gathered to mark a year since the start of the war on Gaza.
Since the deadly onslaught on Gaza began on Oct. 7, Israeli forces have killed at least 41,870 Palestinians and wounded over 97,000 others, according to estimates from the enclave’s Health Ministry.
India’s leading civil society organizations, main trade unions and top lawyers have held rallies in solidarity with Palestine for the past year, demanding a ceasefire and more action from parties that have ties with Israel, including the government in Delhi.
“The main demand of the protest is that we want a complete arms embargo, we want the Indian government to stop sending arms to Israel because we know that it is resulting in the loss of life. It is only being used to bomb innocents,” Anjali, an activist with the India for Palestine collective, told Arab News.
“We want an immediate and permanent ceasefire. We want the Indian government to end all arms and trade deals with the Israeli government … This protest is important. We are fed up with being part of a country which is signing stronger ties with Israel.”
Indian arms sales to Israel came into the spotlight in May, following reports of two shipments loaded with weapons that originated from Chennai in southeast India, which was later prevented from docking in the Spanish port of Cartagena.
In June, Palestinian reporters released clips showing remains of a missile found after a deadly bombing with a label that read: “Made in India.”
Though support for Palestine was an important part of India’s foreign policy for decades, that support has visibly shifted toward Israel especially in the past year, which saw police stopping rallies held in solidarity with Gaza.
On Monday, activists took to the streets not only in the Indian capital, but also in the eastern city of Kolkata, the southern city of Bangalore and Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state of Uttar Pradesh.
There were dozens of organizations represented at the New Delhi demonstration, including rights bodies, trade unions, student and youth associations, and women’s groups.
In a letter to mark one year since Israel’s war on Gaza, they called on the Indian government to cease all diplomatic ties with Israel. And to “vote against genocidal actions of the US-backed Israeli government,” while also urging a stop to all arms trade and labor ties with Tel Aviv.
“We are asking the Indian government to stop the military supply. It’s the same demand, which they are not listening to … therefore this is a tactic to put pressure on the Indian government,” Aban Raza, an artist who took part in the Delhi rally, told Arab News.
Prasenjit, a student leader in Delhi, said the Indian government should “take a position” and send the message to the world. “The barbaric attack on Palestine should stop,” he said.
In Kolkata, more than a thousand people showed up to participate in the Palestinian rally.
“This is not a war, but genocide, and the whole world is raising voice against this genocide. This attack on Palestine and Lebanon is being done with the help of the USA and NATO,” Nilasis Bose of the All India Students Association told Arab News.
“We demand that the genocide should stop, the UN should get proactive. We fear that the (Gaza) war will push the world into the third world war,” he said.
“We also want war criminals like Netanyahu to be tried and punished.”
Feroze Mithiborwala, an activist in Bangalore, was expecting over a thousand people to show up at the evening protest in the city.
“They are calling for the stoppage of weapon supply and trade deals with Israel and we are calling for the establishment of the Palestinian independent state. Israel needs to be tried for war crimes too,” he said.
“People can see the horror happening (that) Israel is committing. People are protesting to demand an end to the war. They are calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.”
ANKARA — Turkish security forces “neutralized” six members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and apprehended 14 suspects linked to the group in southern Türkiye, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Monday.
In a statement, the ministry said that airstrikes targeted PKK strongholds in the Gara and Metina regions of northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, domestic security operations in Türkiye led to the arrest of 14 suspected PKK members in southern Mersin province, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
The suspects face charges related to attending pro-PKK gatherings, attempting to recruit via social media, and disseminating “terrorist propaganda.”
Turkish authorities often use the term “neutralize” to imply the alleged “terrorists” have either surrendered, been killed, or been captured.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, and the European Union, has rebelled against the Turkish government for more than three decades.
Since 2019, Türkiye has initiated a series of cross-border military operations into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, targeting the PKK’s hideouts.
BAGHDAD — The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a Shiite militia group, claimed responsibility on Monday for a drone attack on a military site in Israel.
The group said in a statement that the attack was conducted “in solidarity with the people of Palestine and Lebanon” and pledged to continue targeting “the enemy’s strongholds.”
The statement did not provide further details about the targeted site or report any casualties.
Since the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has conducted multiple strikes against Israeli and U.S. targets in the region to show support for Palestinians in Gaza.
The group has recently escalated its attacks on Israel as the latter intensified its strikes against Hezbollah across Lebanon.
NIBONG TEBAL — Seorang bapa bersama anak lelakinya maut selepas cedera parah dalam kemalangan berhampiran sebuah sekolah di Jalan Transkrian, di sini, tengah hari tadi.
Insiden kira-kira jam 1.30 tengah hari itu dikatakan berlaku ketika dua beranak itu yang menunggang motosikal dipercayai dalam perjalanan pulang ke rumah.
Difahamkan, bapa berusia 49 tahun itu mengambil anak lelakinya berusia sembilan tahun dari sekolah sebelum terbabit kemalangan dengan sebuah kereta dipandu seorang lelaki.
Kedua-dua beranak itu disahkan meninggal dunia di lokasi kejadian akibat kecederaan parah di anggota badan.
Terdahulu tular beberapa keping gambar di media sosial memaparkan kemalangan berkenaan.
SHAH ALAM — Tujuh individu, termasuk enam lelaki warga China ditahan dipercayai terbabit jenayah pecah rumah di sekitar Sabak Bernam sejak awal tahun ini.
Suspek berusia 30 hingga 40-an ditahan polis dalam serbuan berasingan bermula kelmarin hingga semalam.
Ketua Polis Selangor, Datuk Hussein Omar Khan, berkata semua suspek ditahan di hotel tiga bintang di Kuala Lumpur dan sebuah kondominium di Subang Jaya.
Beliau berkata, kumpulan itu dipercayai terbabit lapan kes pecah rumah dan modus operandi mereka dengan menyewa kereta jenis Perodua Bezza dan Alza untuk melakukan jenayah.
“Mereka menyasarkan rumah dua tingkat ketika tiada penghuni dengan melarikan barangan berharga, termasuk yang disimpan dalam peti besi keselamatan.
“Enam warga China terbabit didapati tidak mempunyai dokumen perjalanan sah dan siasatan masih dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti sejak bila mereka memasuki negara ini,” katanya pada sidang media di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Selangor di sini hari ini.
Hussein berkata, siasatan mendapati suspek warga tempatan berperanan dalam mengenal pasti rumah yang ingin dipecah masuk serta melupuskan barangan curi.
“Semakan turut mendapati kumpulan ini juga terbabit dalam tiga kes di Negeri Sembilan dan masing-masing satu kes di Perak dan Pahang,” katanya.
Beliau berkata, kes itu yang pertama sejak dua tahun lalu, membabitkan penjenayah warga China berbanding sebelum ini lebih kepada warga Latin.
“Turut dirampas dalam serbuan hasil curi dan peralatan digunakan. Semua suspek direman tujuh hari dan kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 457 Kanun Keseksaan dan Akta Imigresen 1959/63,” katanya.
LONDON — Britain has withdrawn the families of its embassy staff working in Israel due to the escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and the risk of a wider regional conflict.
The decision comes in the wake of Israel sending troops into southern Lebanon, the killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and an Iranian missile attack on Israel.
“As a precautionary measure following escalation in the region, family members of British Embassy staff have been temporarily withdrawn,” the Foreign Office travel advice web page for Israel read. “Our staff members remain.”
Hezbollah rockets hit Israel’s third-largest city Haifa early on Monday as the country looked poised to expand its ground incursions into Lebanon.
Britain advises citizens against all travel to the area close to the border with Gaza and “all but essential travel” to other parts of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories due to the yearlong conflict between Israel and Hamas.
But British citizens living in Israel are not being told to leave. Instead, they are being advised that consular assistance is “severely limited.”
“We recognize this is a fast-moving situation that poses significant risks,” the advice reads. “We strongly encourage you to check you and your dependents have the required documentation to travel at short notice.”
