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SANA, citing an Interior Ministry statement, said the blaze broke out at a commercial facility in central Damascus.
Mohamed Abul Reish of the Damascus Hospital said seven burned bodies were admitted to the hospital. No information was provided about other victims.
SANA said investigations have been launched to determine the cause of the fire.
Source: Anadolu Agency
At least six irregular migrants died over a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece’s Lesbos Island on Tuesday.
The accident was only noticed early on Tuesday when a passerby saw the bodies of the migrants washed ashore by the sea.
The Greek Coast Guard is currently operating a large-scale search and rescue operation in the area to locate possible survivors.
According to a statement by the Coast Guard, the six bodies that were found did not have life jackets.
The cause of the shipwreck is still unknown.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Due to the nearly week-old Russia-Ukraine war, Russian and Belarusian skaters on Tuesday were banned from all international championships.
In a statement, the International Skating Union (ISU) said that it had decided to bar athletes of the Russian Skating Union, Figure Skating Federation of Russia, and Skating Union of Belarus from participating in international ice skating competitions, including ISU championships and other ISU events, until further notice.
The group added that it will continue to monitor the situation in Ukraine and may take additional steps if required.
Since Russia’s war on Ukraine began last Thursday – including Russian troops coming across the border from neighboring Belarus – it has been met by outrage from the international community, with the EU, UK, and US implementing a range of economic sanctions on Russia.
So far, at least 136 civilians, including 13 children, have been killed and 400 others, including 26 children, injured in Ukraine, according to UN figures.
Around 660,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, the UN Refugee Agency said on Tuesday.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Adidas said Tuesday it is suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union because of the Russia-Ukraine war.
“We can confirm that adidas is suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union (RFU) with immediate effect,” Stefan Pursche with Adidas’ media relations told Anadolu Agency via email.
The German apparel company has been the Russian national football team’s kit supplier for more than a decade as their partnership began in September 2008, months after the UEFA EURO 2008 football championship where Russia reached the semifinals.
During their partnership, Russian footballers played in the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Having qualified as hosts, Russia were eliminated in the quarterfinals during the 2018 World Cup.
Since last Thursday — days after Russia’s recognition of two separatist-held enclaves in eastern Ukraine – Moscow’s war on Ukraine has been met by an outcry from the international community, with the EU, UK, and US implementing a range of economic sanctions against Russia.
At least 136 civilians, including 13 children, have been killed, and 400 others, including 26 children, were injured in Ukraine, according to UN figures.
Nearly 680,000 people have since fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Foreign players of Ukrainian football clubs Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv have left Ukraine, fleeing the war with Russia.
In a statement on Monday, Shakhtar Donetsk said the Miners’ Brazilian footballers and their families, and Dynamo Kyiv internationals arrived in Romania.
“The evacuation of the players was made possible thanks to the personal assistance of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, Ukrainian Football Association President Andrii Pavelko, and Moldovan Football Federation President Leonid Oleinichenko,” Shakhtar Donetsk said.
Last week Ukraine suspended its top-tier football league after the declaration of a martial law over the war with Russia.
Shakhtar Donetsk is a club from Ukraine’s east but the 2014 Russia-Ukraine crisis forced them leave their hometown in Donbas region.
First moving to Lviv in western Ukraine for security reasons, the club then relocated further east to Kharkiv to be closer to their fans in Donetsk.
In 2020, Shakhtar Donetsk preferred to play their home matches at Kyiv’s NSC Olimpiyskiy over the same concern.
NSC Olimpiyskiy has been the home of Dynamo Kyiv for over a decade.
Since Russia’s war on Ukraine began last Thursday – including Russian troops coming across the border from neighboring Belarus – it has been met by outrage from the international community, with the EU, UK, and US implementing a range of economic sanctions on Russia.
So far, at least 136 civilians, including 13 children, have been killed, and 400 others, including 26 children, were injured in Ukraine, according to UN figures.
Around 660,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, the UN Refugee Agency said.
Source: Anadolu Agency
A proper grievance redressal system and the continuous education of health workers are needed to ensure that no discrimination is faced by patients at hospitals on the basis of their caste, religion or gender, according to health experts in India.
With the world marking Zero Discrimination Day on Tuesday, experts also urged authorities to take more steps to ensure that citizens are treated equally while utilizing the country’s public health services.
A number of surveys in the last few years have pointed to the discrimination faced by people on the grounds of their religion or caste while accessing such services.
In November, a report released by UK-based charity Oxfam provided insights into the suffering of patients while availing of health care services. In the survey, Oxfam India found that around 33% of Muslim respondents had said they experienced discrimination at hospitals on the basis of their religion.
The number of Muslims in India according to the 2011 census was 172 million.
The report also noted that over 20% Dalit and Adivasi (tribal) respondents reported having faced discrimination at hospitals.
The Indian caste system divides Hindus into four main categories – Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and the Shudras. Outside this, are the Dalits or the untouchables.
Indian public health expert Rajesh Kumar told Anadolu Agency there is a need to have a local grievance mechanism that would address such issues immediately.
“In every public sphere, including the health sector, there is no scope of discrimination because our constitution ensures equality to everyone,” Kumar said.
“If these reports have come up with some findings, then there needs to be a proper mechanism which would deal with the violations and take swift actions to stop similar actions in the future.”
The Oxfam report was not the only one to come up with such findings.
The Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), an Indian organization, conducted a similar survey earlier in the financial capital Mumbai.
Its report, which highlighted the various barriers that Muslim and non-Muslim women face in accessing health services, recommended that “health system must address these stereotypes and biases of their staff.”
– Severe problem
Sangeeta Rege, the coordinator of CEHAT, told Anadolu Agency that the problem is “severe even today and even in metropolitan cities” and maintained that there is a need to address such problems.
“There is an urgent need to educate medical students, nurses and all health workers at a pre-service level to have an intersectional approach to treating and provision of care before these deep-rooted biases set in,” she said.
She added that while they also provide a full day of training for all cadres of health workers on the issue of “communalism and how such biases prevent marginalized communities from accessing services,” Rege said that “one-time training is not adequate.”
“This requires long-term engagement with health workers and an ongoing dialogue,” she said.
In 2019, a study of outpatient appointments at one major tertiary care hospital in the capital New Delhi published in the British Medical Journal’s online journal BMJ Open, had suggested that there was “extensive gender discrimination in health care access” for women in India.
“This calls for systematic societal and governmental action,” the researchers said, adding their study “has important implications for gender-related health policy which has so far focused on maternal health.”
– No discrimination by doctors
Dr. Sahajanand Prasad Singh, national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), an organization that represents doctors in India, told Anadolu Agency there was no such discrimination happening from the side of doctors.
“For a doctor, every patient is equal, and no discrimination happens on the basis of religion or caste,” he said. “However, if such things are reported from the health care side, it should be addressed.”
Source: Anadolu Agency
Following the eruption of a war between Russia and Ukraine, Crimean Tatar Turks evacuated from Ukraine by land have begun to arrive in Turkiye.
As part of Turkiye’s evacuation efforts carried out by the Foreign Ministry, a group of 45 Crimean Tatars including women and children entered Turkiye Tuesday through the Kapikule border crossing on the border with Bulgaria.
Suzan Mmbiyetava, an evacuee, told reporters in the northwestern Edirne province that they left Kyiv after the explosions started to hit the capital city.
She said they witnessed the Russian shelling on their way to Lviv with her husband and three children. They were later brought to safe zones with Turkiye’s support, she added.
“Children and women were evacuated. They brought us to the border… We left our husbands behind but we spoke to them during our journey,” Mmbiyetava said.
Hanife Kurtseyit, another evacuee, expressed her happiness to be in Turkiye.
She, who also left her husband behind, said she wanted to stay in Ukraine but had to leave the country for her children.
They arrived in Turkiye after a four-day journey via land, Kurtseyit said.
“Turkiye has always supported us both during the escape from exile and occupation. They have always been the closest to us.”
Since Russia’s war on Ukraine began last Thursday, it has been met with outrage from the international community, with the EU, UK and US implementing a range of economic sanctions against Russia.
Russia was further isolated after its planes were barred from flying in European and Canadian airspace, and a number of its banks were kicked out of the SWIFT international banking system.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Russian forces on Tuesday morning hit with a missile the central square and the regional administration building in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv city.
Speaking on the consequences of the shelling of the country's second-largest city, Yevhen Vasylenko, the spokesman for the Ukrainian State Emergency Service in the Kharkiv region, said rescue teams saved six people, including one child, while about 20 people were injured.
He added that there are still people under the debris, with no certain information yet available on fatalities.
Oleh Synyehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said the city had been under the missile attacks throughout the night.
Noting that many parked vehicles were burned on the streets, Synyehubov said there were casualties and injuries among civilians.
Major damage was also reported on other nearby buildings.
On Monday, Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, said at least nine people were reported to be killed -- including three children -- and 37 others wounded after Russian forces launched multiple rocket strikes on Kharkiv.
"Today we had a very difficult day. It showed us that it’s not just a war, this is a massacre of Ukrainian people," Terekhov said on Telegram.
"The missiles hit residential buildings, killing and injuring peaceful civilians. Kharkiv has not seen such damage for a very long time. And this is horrible," he added.
The footage on social media showed lots of Grad missiles hitting the central parts of the city, mainly the residential buildings.
Source: Anadolu Agency
US manufacturing growth gained pace in February, bouncing back from its lowest level in 14 months in January, according to a report by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on Tuesday.
The ISM manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) increased to 58.6% in February.
The reading is a gain of 1 percentage point from the January figure of 57.6% — its lowest since November 2020.
The market expectation was for it to come in at 58% in February.
“This figure indicates expansion in the overall economy for the 21st month in a row after a contraction in April and May 2020,” ISM said in a statement.
While a reading above 50 indicates growth, below that level shows contraction.
The production index rose to 58.5%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points from the January reading of 57.8%, according to ISM.
The new orders index increased to 61.7% in February, up 3.8 percentage points compared to the previous month’s reading of 57.9%.
The employment index, however, stood at 52.9% — 1.6 percentage points lower than the January reading of 54.5%.
Source: Anadolu Agency