state-run news agency

Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to aid the disaster's victims.

The unions representing journalists and other employees working in public and private television channels, as well as the state-run news agency held a strike on Tuesday to protest changes to work relations sin the media.

Countries began evacuating their citizens Jan. 29 from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroad.

Turkish hackers hijacked briefly on Tuesday the official Greek webpage of Japanese automaker Suzuki, posting the same message they uploaded in Monday's hacking of the state-run news agency's webpage ANA-MPA.

Turkey issued arrest warrants for 63 people, including former National Intelligence Agency (MIT) personnel, over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric accused of orchestrating last year's attempted coup, Anadolu agency reported on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

The police operation was launched in 21 provinces across Turkey, the state-run news agency reported.

In a move that has angered the U.S, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu Agency has leaked the precise locations of U.S. bases in northern Syria. The move – which exposes the exact locations of American soldiers on the front lines in the war-torn nation – has sent the ongoing feud between the two NATO allies to new lows.

The front-runners in Sunday’s election, SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy’s Vangelis Meimarakis addressed supporters on Thursday, the first in Irakleio, Crete and the second in central Athens.

Meimarakis pointed to the need for political consensus after the snap election to exit the crisis.

A pre-election “bonanza” worth 384,000 euros in extra public sector hirings features the signature of previous minister of state Nikos Pappas, a decision taken at a time when the inner circle of the Tsipras government knew snap elections would be declared.

Turkey has halted the flow of oil in the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which was damaged in a suspected sabotage act inside its territory near the border with Iraq, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported on Wednesday.

References and gibes about helicopters proved true on Sunday, when Proto Thema revealed that Deputy Defence Minister Nikos Toskas used an … ambulance chopper to fly to the northern Peloponnese coastal city of Aigio (Egio).