ISTANBUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Turkey's government blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for a blast that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, and said police had detained 22 suspects, including the person suspected to have planted the bomb.
State broadcaster TRT released footage of police escorting a woman, the main suspect, from an apartment after an overnight raid.
ANKARA, November 13. /TASS/. The death toll from the blast in Istanbul’s Istiklal Caddesi pedestrian street has risen to six, and the number of those injured has increased to 53, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
"As a result of the Istanbul blast, six people were kills, 53 received wounds," he told a news conference before leaving for Indonesia.
ANKARA, November 14. /TASS/. Turkish police have detained a man who is believed to have left the bomb, which detonated on Sunday on Istiklal Street in Istanbul's Beyoglu district, Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey Suleyman Soylu.
"The man who left the bomb in Beyoglu was detained by the Istanbul security department. He is under interrogation," he said. A video with his statement was published on Twitter.
SHENYANG, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- BMW Group's joint venture in China, BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA), will invest 10 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars) into a new battery production project in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The signing ceremony of the project was held Friday in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning. The signed agreement will see BBA expand battery production capacity at its Shenyang production base.
13 Nov 2022; MEMO: Iran on Sunday condemned remarks by the leaders of Germany and France in support of the ongoing anti-government protests over the death of an Iranian woman in police custody, reports Anadolu Agency.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani termed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's remarks on protests in Iran as "interventionist and provocative".
The spokesman warned that damage to relations between the two countries will have "long-term consequences".
13 Nov 2022; MEMO: The UAE has sought to influence US political decisions to serve its own interests according to a classified US intelligence report.
13 Nov 2022; MEMO: Oman has reported an alarming rise in the number of patients infected with HIV, with eight cases reported each week, local media reports.
According to Oman News, there were over 3,580 HIV cases recorded last year. Of those, 1,960 passed away.
13 Nov 2022; MEMO: Two Palestinians were detained in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city on Saturday, according to a local NGO, reports Anadolu Agency.
Montaser Sammour, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society in Jenin city, said Israeli forces raided the town of Qabatia, south of Jenin, and took the two into custody.
The state news agency Wafa said dozens of Palestinians suffered gas inhalation in clashes with Israeli forces in the town during which Israeli soldiers used tear gas canisters.
13 Nov 2022; MEMO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discussed "current issues on bilateral agenda" over phone, a Kremlin statement said Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency.
12 Nov 2022; MEMO: Two British ships from the UK arrived at the Umm Al-Houl Naval Base in Qatar on Friday as part of bilateral cooperation with Doha to secure the 2022 World Cup.
According to Qatar News Agency (QNA), the Amiri Naval Forces received the ships, Bangor and Guardian.
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