The death toll from floods in Turkey's Black Sea province of Giresun rose to five, the country's president said Sunday, Aug. 23. 'According to initial reports, there were five loss of lives and the number of the injured was as many as 12 due to the heavy floods,' said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Rescue operations are underway, he said, with nearly 150 saved from the deluge so far.

Sudan on Saturday received medical supplies Turkey donated to contribute to the country's fight against the novel coronavirus. An aircraft carrying the medical supplies sent to Sudan by the Turkish Red Crescent arrived in the capital Khartoum.

A sky-touching whirlwind was captured on smartphones in Turkey's Black Sea province of Ordu on August 22, 2020. The whirlwind emerged in the sea following heavy rain in the Persembe district of the province. No casualties or material damage has been reported so far. Whirlwinds are not common but also not unknown in Turkey, occurring mainly in the country's south.

Weeks after the historic return of Hagia Sophia to a mosque, another ancient house of worship in Istanbul is set to reopen for Muslim worship. The sixth-century Chora Museum, located in Istanbul's Fatih district on the historical peninsula, will reopen as a mosque for Muslim prayers, authorities said Friday. A presidential decree published in the country's Official Gazette today annulled a 1945 Cabinet decision making Chora (Kariye in Turkish) into a museum.

At least six suspects have been arrested in Turkey's Black Sea region for links to the Daesh terror group, a security source said on Friday. The suspects were apprehended in simultaneous operations by anti-terror and intelligence teams in the northern Samsun province, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Turkey's Oruc Reis seismic vessel, escorted by Turkish navy, is seen offshores of Eastern Mediterranean on August 20, 2020.

US President Donald Trump's former chief adviser Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of fraud linked to an online fundraising campaign seeking to build a wall at the US-Mexican border.

Iran displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Thursday that Defence Minister Amir Hatami said had a range of 1,400 kilometres and a new cruise missile, ignoring U.S. demands that Tehran halt its missile programme. 'The surface-to-surface missile, called martyr Qassem Soleimani, has a range of 1,400 km and the cruise missile, called martyr Abu Mahdi, has a range of over 1,000 km,' Hatami said in a televised speech.

Pointing out her bitter loss to Donald Trump in 2016 despite winning the popular vote, Hillary Clinton urged Democrats to vote in overwhelming numbers during the Aug. 19 Democratic National Convention.

The second prototype of Turkey's domestically made smart combat drone has successfully passed the 20,000-feet (6,096-meters) altitude test, its Istanbul-based manufacturer announced Wednesday. The Bayraktar Akinci Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) drone completed the test for nearly two-and-a-half hours, manufacturer Baykar said on Twitter.

A total of 21 cars fell into a giant sinkhole that opened up near a shopping mall after a road collapsed in southwest China on Wednesday.

Shocking footage showed another instance of police brutality in Germany as officers in Frankfurt on Wednesday manhandled and brutally beat a young man as they restrained him the ground. The footage sparked outrage in a post-George Floyd era.

A little boy in western Turkey barely cheated death after he brushed against a speding car while on driving his bike on the street. The boy miraculously was unharmed after the scary accident.

Turkey has launched a new anti-terror operation in its eastern Bingol province, the Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry said Operation Yildirim-6 has begun to completely eliminate the separatist terror group [PKK], and neutralize those taking shelter in the region.

Many civilians have been gathering in central Bamako and celebrating the arrival of soldiers to the city center after Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and several officials were arrested by mutinying soldiers on Tuesday, Aug. 18, as local media reported. Keita and Cisse were taken to the Kati military camp, located 15 kilometers (9 miles) northwest of the capital Bamako, at around 4.30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT), according to Journal du Mali.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, with strong tremors felt in the area though seismology agencies said there was no risk of a tsunami and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has received Tuesday, Aug. 18, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Caracas. The meeting has focused on bilateral relations, as well as regional and international issues.

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation and the dissolving of parliament early Wednesday after he was arrested by mutinying soldiers.

Turkey 'neutralized' two PKK terrorists in an air operation in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said Wednesday. (Courtesy: İHA)

Footage showing a massive tightly packed pool party in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged late last year, have sparked fury online as the world is scrambling to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed close to 800,000 and left the global economy reeling as it disrupted trade and travel.