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Friday Partly Cloudy 13 °CWEATHER / ANKARAFriday, December 15, 2017

Turkey’s first driverless metro train to run Friday

Palestinian minors suffer ‘detention, abuse’ by IsraelChildren – some under seven years old – remain frequent targets of Israel’s occupation, according to Palestinian rights groups

68 migrants stranded in Aegean Sea rescued

Hamas marks 30th anniversary with rally

IZMIR - The Turkish Coast Guard on Thursday rescued 68 migrants stranded on a small rocky islet in the Aegean Sea. The migrants, including women and children, were trying to reach Greek Islands when an inflatable boat carrying them got stuck at the small islet near Dikili district of Izmir, according to a statement from the Turkish Coast Guard.The coast guard teams airlifted four children, while the others were transferred to safety in boats.

Turkey has been a main route for refugees trying to cross into Europe, since especially the beginning of the civil war in Syria. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people have made the short but perilous journey across the Aegean to reach northern and western Europe. Many have died at sea as a number of boats carrying refugees sank.The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued thousands. In March 2016, Turkey and the EU signed...

By Gharib Suleiman

JERUSALEM - Amjad, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, cannot forget the moment he was detained by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank two months ago.

“I remember the incident as if it were yesterday,” Amjad, whose family preferred not to give his second name, told Anadolu Agency.The Palestinian boy was detained while participating in a rally in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

“I was held in a military vehicle and blindfolded for more than two hours, during which soldiers kept insulting me,” he recalled. With a terrified look on his face, Amjad said he had been taken to a military base near his village where he says he was subjected...

By Yasser al-Banna

GAZA CITY - Palestinian resistance movement Hamas held a rally in Gaza City on Thursday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its establishment.Held in the city’s Al-Katiba Square, the event was attended by thousands of

the group’s members and supporters.Later Thursday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Jamil Mezher, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, are both expected to deliver speeches.Hamas was founded on Dec. 14, 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...

S-400 deal ‘may be’ signed this weekANKARA - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday said the agreement on the purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia “maybe” signed “this week”.In a joint news conference with Maltese Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion Carmelo Abela, Cavusoglu said there are “no

problems” in S-400 deal.The S-400 is Russia’s most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system and can carry three types of missiles capable of destroying targets including ballistic and cruise missiles.The system can track and engage up to 300 targets at a time and has an altitude ceiling of 27... MORE DETAILS

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