A total of 78 undocumented migrants were held in northwestern Çanakkale province of Turkey on July 02, 2018. Turkey has been a main route for refugees trying to cross into Europe, especially since the beginning of the civil war in Syria. .

Twenty-seven-year-old Turkish national Ebru Özkan has been under arrest in Israeli prisons since June 11 after she was detained in Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport as she was to board a flight home. An Israeli military court has extended her detention period until July 3.

Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday against the so-called “Deal of the Century” -- a backchannel plan to reach a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinian people "stand united against the 'deal of the century',” Dalal Salama, a member of Fatah's central council, told Anadolu Agency. Protesters waved banners rejecting the proposed deal and burnt pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump. “The rally is a message to the U.S. ad...

Turkish charity group Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) continues to distribute aid to civilians in Syria's northwestern Afrin town, where the Turkish military and Free Syrian Army wiped out YPG/PKK terrorists.The IHH provides clothing to 100 families every day at the "Charity Bazaar" it established before Eid al Fitr at Afrin city center. Selim Tosun, IHH's media advisor in Syria, told Anadolu Agency that their aid activities continue at the bazaar. Underscoring that they provide cost-free c...

Various shots from the Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest known temple located in southeastern Şanlıurfa province of Turkey on July 01, 2018. Göbeklitepe is on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is recognized as the oldest temple in the world by many international organizations.

The most famous street in Paris the Champs Elysees was transformed into a giant open-air cinema on Sunday (July 1). Rows of deckchairs and a screen were installed in the middle of the tree-lined avenue normally bustling with shoppers and 1,700 people, selected through a lucky draw, watched classic French movie "Les visiteurs" ("The Visitors").The comic film tells the story of a knight and his servant who accidentally travel through time from the medieval age to the end of the 20th century.For th...

U.S. actress Megan Fox visited the archaeological site of Troy in Turkey's western Çanakkale province on Monday. Troy, located on the mound of Hisarlik overlooking the Turkish Aegean coastal plain, is one of the most famous archeological sites in the world. It is known for its 4,000-year history.

Turkey and the United States reach an agreement on Manbij in Syria. It focuses on the withdrawal of PKK-linked YPG from the city, and empowering local government.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have developed an "electronic skin" that can be applied to the thumb and forefinger of a prosthetic hand to give its wearer the feeling of touch and pain.

Nelson Mandela's centenary is just over two weeks away, and South Africans have already begun celebrating. The man, who was also called "Madiba" would have turned 100 this month. But, as Reagan Des Vignes explains, his sense of style continues to influence young people.

Palestinian protesters performed a traditional Arab folk dance called the Dabke at the Gaza border. The dance is a part of the “Great March of Return” protests. The Palestinians started staging mass rallies along the Gaza-Israel security fence on March 30. They demand the “right of return” to their homes and villages in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.

A firefighter on Sunday recalled his brave deeds in a heart-stopping operation rescuing a couple who got stuck in a flooded river in Kuqa County, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Eleven members of a family were found dead in India's capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded and hands tied behind the back, in a part of the city that was the scene of a gang war just two weeks ago.The victims included four men and seven women, including teenagers. A neighbour in the Burari district found the victims early on Sunday, police said.One of the bodies was found lying on the floor and the others hanging from a railing attached to the ceili...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new long-term contract with the club, the Premier League side said on Monday. Salah had a remarkable first season with Liverpool, scoring 44 goals in all competitions and helping the club reach the Champions League final. He was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year and Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year.

This unlucky man's car was destroyed by powerful hail downpour during a storm that struck the Russian region of Krasnodar.

The programmes behind artificial intelligence are in almost every part of our lives, but there's an emerging problem with them: algorithmic bias.

Israeli soldiers arrested a 12-year-old boy from his house in al-Khalil, West Bank. The soldiers claimed that the boy threw stones at Israelis.

A citizen in Turkey's Şanlıurfa brought a bird back to life by performing CPR after it fell into water. Watch as this considerate citizen carefully does a cardiac massage to save the bird's life.

A science experiment conducted in class in Egypt had a brutal end. The teacher's concoction caused a sudden and catastrophic explosion, wounding the teacher and causing great panic.

A French gangster is on the run after being broken out of prison by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds, security sources said on Sunday. Redoine Faid was serving a long-term sentence at a prison south of Paris for armed robbery and the murder of a policewoman in 2010 after a heist that went wrong.