Reuters, Istanbul :Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper on Monday, a day after 10,000 more civil servants were sacked over suspected links to a failed July coup.Turkey’s crackdown since rogue soldiers tried to seize power on July 15 has alarmed Western allies and rights groups, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the coup attempt to crush dissent. More than 100,000 people have been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested...
Reuters, Manila :US President Barack Obama said on Thursday it may take some months for Russia, Iran and the Syrian...
Reuters, Kabul :A severe cold snap killed at least 17 people in Afghanistan on Saturday, government officials said, as heavy...
Reuters:A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong’s World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department said.The 39-floor World Trade Centre is home to restaurants, offices and shops in the bustling Causeway Bay commercial and shopping district.The fire broke out in a utility room on a lower level of the building’s mall at noon, media said, before it spread to bamboo...
BSS :Morocco has recalled its ambassador in Tunis for consultations and cancelled its participation in a pan-African investment conference, it said Friday, after Tunisia’s president hosted the head of the Polisario movement.The Polisario wants an independent state in the Western Sahara, a vast stretch of strategically valuable, mineral-rich desert Morocco sees as a sovereign part of its own territory.Polisario chief Brahim Ghali, who is also president of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, met with President Kais Saied after arriving...
New Zealand is suspending all high-level contact with Myanmar and imposing a travel ban on its military leaders following last...
BBC Online :Narendra Modi, the leader of India’s main opposition BJP, has criticised Priyanka Gandhi, the sister of Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, for saying that the BJP was “indulging in low level politics”.“I belong to a lower caste of society that’s why they think my politics is low-level politics,” Modi tweeted.Modi, the son of a tea seller, is from a disadvantaged caste.On Monday, Modi spoke at a rare rally in Amethi, Gandhi’s seat.He attacked their record in the area...
Agency, New Delhi :In the middle of a bitterly-fought national election, the Congress and the BJP have joined hands for...
AFP, Moscow :Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called for an OSCE investigation into who was behind the deaths of dozens of people in Kiev last month in attacks by snipers, saying the truth could no longer be “covered up”.Lavrov’s comments came after Estonia’s top diplomat told EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a phone call leaked this weak that the then-Ukrainian opposition to president Viktor Yanukovych may have been involved in the attacks.“The latest information about the...
AP, Jerusalem :Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that eight months after a bloody war in the Gaza Strip...
Taiwan calls Chinese military drills a threat to regionAP, Beijing Taiwan’s government said Thursday that recent Chinese military drills aim to intimidate the island and are a threat to regional peace and stability.China’s attempts to “pressure and harass Taiwan and seek to raise tensions between the sides and in the region,” the Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said on its website. Indonesia quake kills 3AP, JakartaA shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes,...
AFP. Florida :A darkly angry, sometimes swearing President Donald Trump vowed to win landslide reelection at a Florida campaign rally...