Author: Osas Monday

While his wife and two daughters lay under the rubble after Syria’s earthquake, Abdelbaset Khalil tended to hundreds of patients who flooded into his hospital. Khalil, a nurse anaesthetist, was already at work when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria last week, flattening entire neighbourhoods and leaving a combined death toll of more than 35,000, including at least 3,581 in Syria. As the quake shook the ground beneath him, he rushed out of the hospital to find his apartment building had collapsed with his family inside. Speechless and overwhelmed, the 50-year-old walked back to the hospital ward to an…

Thousands of Israelis protested outside parliament Monday against the government’s controversial judicial reform plan, which aims to give lawmakers substantially more control over the supreme court. The measures, which were inching towards approval through a series of preliminary votes inside the chamber, have provoked widespread criticism and charges that they would give the legislative branch nearly unchecked authority. Outside Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, thousands rallied, waving Israeli flags and placards that read “Save Israel democracy” and “The whole world is watching”. President Isaac Herzog, in a rare national address late Sunday focused on the reform plan, warned that Israel was…

At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine The post On the road with Ukraine's 'medical battalion' appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

One of Indonesia’s most senior police officers was sentenced to death on Monday over the murder of his bodyguard. Ferdy Sambo, a two-star general and former head of internal affairs for the national police, was named as a suspect after his bodyguard was found dead at Sambo’s home in July, in a killing police were initially alleged to have covered up. Sambo was accused of ordering a subordinate to shoot 27-year-old Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, and then firing a bullet into the wounded victim himself. He was arrested in August and discharged from the force in September, before a months-long…

Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person was killed in a predawn Israeli army raid in Nablus in the northern West Bank, the scene of near-relentless violence over the past year. The army did not immediately comment on the Nablus raid. But in Gaza, it said it had struck “an underground complex containing raw materials used for the manufacturing of rockets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation”. The…

Turkish authorities have issued more than 100 arrest warrants over collapsed buildings, amid warnings that the death toll from the earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria could double from the current tally of 28,000. The post Turkey arrests building contractors as earthquake death toll mounts appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

Iranian authorities have released journalist Elnaz Mohammadi from the Hammihan newspaper on bail one week after her arrest, media reported Sunday, but her sister, also a reporter, remains in custody. Elnaz Mohammadi was detained after going to the prosecutor’s office “for an explanation”, but has since been “released from Evin prison on bail”, the reformist daily Hammihan reported. Her sister Elahe Mohammadi was arrested on September 29 after reporting for Hammihan from the funeral of Mahsa Amini’s funeral, and remains in custody. Iran has witnessed nationwide protests since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd,…

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said late Saturday that he plans to return to Brazil “in the coming weeks” after arriving in the United States in December. “I too want to return to Brazil. I intend to return to Brazil in the coming weeks,” the right-wing ex-leader said during a meeting with Brazilian supporters in Boca Raton, Florida, according to a video broadcast by CNN Brasil. Bolsonaro traveled to the United States in late December, several days before supporters stormed government buildings in Brasilia in an attempt to overturn the election victory of his rival, leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da…

Cyprus went to the polls Sunday for a tightly fought presidential runoff between two career diplomats seeking the top post in the south of the divided Mediterranean island. The post Cyprus votes for new president in tight run-off election appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

A Palestinian was shot dead during a clash with Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry and the Israeli military said. It was the latest in a spiralling number of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this year that has triggered mounting international concern. Mithkal Suleiman Rayyan, 27, died of a bullet wound to the head near the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, south of the northern city of Nablus, the ministry said. The Israeli military said it was aware that a Palestinian had been declared dead following “heavy clashes between dozens of Palestinians and…