Ayse Erkec

As the protests in the US against the killing of George Floyd entered its eighth day, TRT World journalists came in the line of fire in the states of Washington and Minneapolis. Police on Wednesday used rubber bullets to disperse protests against the

killing the 46-year-old black man by a white police officer. Sally Ayhan, the Washington correspondent of TRT World, was injured in the chest and leg by plastic bullets during live coverage. Another correspondent, Lionel Donovan and cameramen Barbaros Sayilgan...

Lale Bildirici and Emin Ileri

ANKARA - National museums in Istanbul, including the

iconic Dolmabahce Palace and Beylerbeyi Palace that were temporarily closed on March 18 to slow the spread of coronavirus,

reopened to the public on Tuesday. Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, which served as the main residence and administrative...

Merve Aydogan

ANKARA - Turkish and Russian military elements have carried out their 14th joint patrol along a key

highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “Within the framework...

SM Najmus Sakib

ANKARA - An elderly Rohingya man has died in Bangladesh, at one of the largest refugee camps in the world, an official confirmed on Tuesday.Mohammad Shamsu Douza, a top official at the office

of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) in Cox’s Bazar, on the country’s southeastern coast, confirmed to Anadolu Agency that the man passed away as of Sunday.He said the Rohingya man, 71, had been...

Riyaz ul Khaliq

ANKARA - Nearly 10 million residents of Wuhan city in central China were tested for coronavirus over 10 days.“Wuhan has tested 9.89 million people during its ten-day citywide nucleic test campaign, found 300 asymptomatic carriers, and no confirmed

cases,” a municipality official said, according to daily Global Times.The deadly coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, last December. Over 11 million people live in the city, known for its high-tech industry.Mass testing began after a cluster of six new cases...

Addis Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The novel coronavirus has impacted Africa in at least three ways: the loss of an estimated $69 billion since the lockdown started, a drop in the growth

forecast and a deepening of poverty, the executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said. Vera Songwe made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency on Monday, coincidentally...

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