ANKARA -- Turkish security force on Thursday clashed with PKK militants on Turkish-Iraqi border in southeastern Hakkari province, leaving two soldiers and two security guards killed.
According to local media, the clashes erupted while the PKK militants were trying to enter the Derecik border town's rural area from Iraq, and four PKK militants were killed by the security force in the conflicts. (Turkey-PKK)
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RAMALLAH -- Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip held protests on Thursday marking 100 years of the Balfour Declaration, which paved way for the establishment of Israel on the lands of Palestine.
Demonstrators protested British government's celebrations of the centenary of Balfour Declaration with Israeli officials in London. (Palestine)
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CAIRO -- An Egyptian court upheld on Thursday a ruling handing a nephew of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi a five-year jail term over committing acts of violence, riot and sabotage in response to Morsi's removal in mid-2013, official MENA news agency reported.
The Court of Cassation's ruling involves three convicts including Morsi's nephew, Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Morsi, who has been charged with committing violence against peaceful citizens and storming a college inside Zagazig University in Sharqiya province, north of the capital Cairo, following Morsi's ouster. (Egypt-Morsi-Nephew-Jail)
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CAIRO -- An international team of scientists announced on Thursday the discovery of "a big void" in Khufu's Pyramid in Egypt's Giza Plateau by imaging the pyramid using cosmic-ray muons.
The discovery was revealed in an article published on Nature, an international weekly journal of science, showing another expected mystery in one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (Egypt-Pyramid-Khufu) Enditem
