Turkey’s electoral authorities on Tuesday denied the newly elected mayor from a pro-Kurdish political party the right to hold office in an eastern city and replaced him with his runner-up in the race — a candidate from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party.Sunday’s local polls were a blow to Erdoğan…

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday that Hamas has “ceased to function as a military organization in most parts of the Gaza Strip.” The comments from Gallant came during an operational briefing before Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Tel Aviv. Gallant relayed Israel’s progress in dismantling Hamas in the…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have arrested a well-known activist on charges punishable by up to four years in prison, the country’s oldest rights group said Tuesday in what appears to be the latest in the yearslong crackdown on dissent.Dzmitry Kuchuk, whose Green Party was shut down last…

A group of 29 migrants was rescued Tuesday off a crippled boat in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete, Greek authorities said, on an increasingly busy migration route from North Africa to Europe.A coast guard statement said the boat was located about 27 miles south of Gavdos, a small island…

A Ukrainian “plane-type UAV” on Tuesday struck a Russian weapons plant that allegedly assembled drones, causing an incredible fireball after impact. “This morning, the republic’s industrial enterprises in Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk were attacked by drones,” Rustam Minnikhanov, the leader of Russia’s autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, said in a post on his…

An explosion woke Luis Har in the middle of the night and he rolled off his mattress seeking cover. This was it, he thought, expecting the building where he was being held captive to collapse.Then came the massive gunfire. And someone shouted his name and called out: “It’s the IDF,…

Japan must shift its policy focus away from crisis-mode stimulus towards achieving private sector-driven economic growth, a government panel said on Tuesday in the wake of the central bank’s decision to end eight years of negative interest rates.In a proposal to the government’s top economic council, the panel urged policy…

World Central Kitchen halted its operations in Gaza after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers.The organization, known for providing food aid, is reevaluating its long-term plans in the region following the incident.The charity, established in 2010, delivers meals to areas affected by disasters and conflicts.World Central Kitchen, the…

A fire broke out at the Masquerade nightclub in Istanbul during renovations on Tuesday, resulting in at least 27 deaths.Officials from the Istanbul governor’s office confirmed that one person was hospitalized.The nightclub, located in the Besiktas district on the European side of the city, was housed in a 16-story residential…

An American teen and two others were killed in an avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt.The avalanche occurred on Monday afternoon in an off-piste area of Riffelberg, below the Matterhorn peak.Rescuers recovered three bodies and one injured skier, a 20-year-old Swiss man.An American teenager and two other people were…