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13:27

A man threw acid into a female teacher's face and fled the scene at a school in Iran’s Karaj city on Thursday.

12:25

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2025 World Press Freedom Index, placing Türkiye at 159th out of 180 countries.

10:57

77.2 percent of Istanbulites do not support the Canal Istanbul Project, according to a survey of the Istanbul Planning Agency (IPA).

10:38

The Education Committee of Kongra Star has started a 10-day educational circuit for women living in the foothills of Mount Kizwan to raise awareness.

09:44

The painful story of Rama Aldremli, who survived a childhood fire accident when she was one and a half years old, inspired the short film “The Miracle Girl” made by Palestinian filmmakers.

14:51

41 people were killed in different areas of Syria in the last 24 hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based monitoring group, reported on Wednesday.

14:24

3,800-year Babylonian tablets unearthed in Iraq shed light on world food culture.

14:21

“We want to return to our homeland where we made great efforts to build a life,” said displaced women from Afrin, Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî, calling for struggle against capitalist modernity.

11:34

The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) placed a flower wreath at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Thursday morning to mark the International Workers Day despite the police blockade.

10:26

The International Workers’ Day has become a symbol of the struggle of women workers building their society in Kobanê. “May Day is an important day because we celebrate our labor and efforts,” said the women of Kobanê.

09:10

“I speak in absolute support of the peace process,” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, said in a video message to support the call for peace by Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

08:48

Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan male students have been required to wear new uniforms of turbans and long tunics.

14:04

Lida Alexani, an Armenian citizen living in Tehran, has been held in Evin prison without charge since April 12, 2025.

13:42

The European Kurdish Women's Movement (TJK-E) has released a statement on Wednesday, announcing that they will hold demonstrations and activities in Europe on May 3 to demand freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

10:58

A teacher named Muammer Uğur was arrested for sexually abusing four students in Şırnak. The fourth hearing of the child sexual abuse trial will be held on May 16, 2025.

09:44

The conference “Unity of Kurdish Position in Rojava” was a response to all “genocidal plans. The conference was held thanks to the efforts of our martyrs during the Rojava Revolution,” said women in northeastern Syria.

08:33

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on Tuesday ratified a law officially recognizing Halabja as Iraq’s 19th province.

14:29

The conference Unity of Kurdish Position in Rojava “will have an influence on current developments in Syria,” said Foza Yusif, member of the Presidential Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

13:27

The death toll in a massive explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas has risen to 70, Iran’s state IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

13:10

Israel is committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by targeting critical infrastructure, displacing most of the enclave's inhabitants and depriving them of life-saving aid, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.