More than 1.4 billion coronavirus vaccine jabs have been administered worldwide, according to the Our World in Data website. China is the most vaccinated country with 366.91 million jabs, said the site, followed by the US with more than 266.5 million. India has 178.36 million, the UK with 54.8 million, Brazil has given 50.31 million shots to residents, Germany has 38.65 million and France has more than 27.46 million. Italy has administered 25.95 million jabs. The list continues with Turkey with more than 25.6 million jabs, followed by Russia, Indonesia and Mexico. The country with the most doses of the

Turkey’s exports to Libya rose 58% year-on-year in the first four months of 2021 to $826 million, said a top Turkish trade group on Saturday. While Turkey’s overall exports were up 33.1% this January-April, this increase in Libya reached 58%, almost double the general average, said Murtaza Karanfil, chairman of the Turkey-Libya Council of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK). In April alone, Karanfil told Anadolu Agency that exports to Libya skyrocketed 228% to $263.3 million compared to the same period last year, showing that strong bilateral ties are clearly being reflected in trade. “We know that the

Three rockets were fired from Syria toward northern Israel, said the Israeli army late Friday. Two of the rockets fired from Syria crashed into open fields of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights while another exploded on Syrian soil, said the Israeli forces in a written statement. It also added that no injury or damage was reported. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces said three rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel and that the rockets landed in the sea off the coast in the Galilee area. The development from Syria came amid an increasing Israeli military escalation in Gaza with

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh late Friday demanded that the UN immediately stop Israel’s attacks in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA. Shtayyeh condemned the “bloody massacre carried out by the occupying forces in West Bank and settlers’ racist attacks against Palestinian people in 1948 lands,” in a statement released by WAFA. The prime minister said the crimes will be moved to the International Criminal Court in accordance with instructions by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He called on the Middle East Quartet –Russia, US, UN and EU — to open a

The sister of a massive ancient monolith towering 5.5 meters (18 feet) tall from southeastern Turkey will be impressing diplomats and visitors alike at UN headquarters in New York, Turkey announced Saturday. The decorated monolith – an exact replica of one from the famed 12,000-year-old remains of Gobeklitepe, known as the world’s oldest temple – will be presented to the UN as an official gift, said Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry The monolith of Gobeklitepe, which was in the spotlight worldwide in 2019, designated the Year of Gobeklitepe, will be the second Anatolian artifact exhibited at UN headquarters in Manhattan,

The Israeli flag was illuminated to the administrative headquarters of Bosnia’s Serb entity and Austria’s Prime Ministry as a sign of support to Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz announced on Twitter that the flag of Israel was hoisted on the roof of the prime minister’s building to show that they are in solidarity with Israel. Kurz strongly condemned Palestine and described the Palestinians as “terrorists” for taking action against Israeli attacks. Known for his close ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kurtz threw his support behind Israel, whose attacks caused the deaths of dozens of

It has been 73 years since the Nakba, or The Catastrophe, and Palestinians are marking the day this year amid Israeli attacks on occupied lands. Observed on May 15 annually, Nakba Day marks the 1948 forced expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their homes in historical Palestine. Seventy-three years ago, hundreds of Palestinians were forced to leave their villages and towns in historical Palestine to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Another part of Palestinians found themselves displaced to the Gaza Strip and West Bank amid rising attacks by Zionist gangs to pave for the way for the creation