Turkey says '80 Gulenists brought back' in foreign operations

Turkey on Thursday said its intelligence agency had brought back from abroad a total of 80 suspected members of the movement blamed for the 2016 failed coup, after a hugely controversial secret expul…

Six miners killed in Georgia in roof collapse: Interior Ministry

Six miners were killed and three injured on Thursday when the roof of a coal mine in western Georgia collapsed, the country's interior ministry said.The ministry said in a statement that the accident…

Scoot airline passengers disembark safely after bomb threat

All passengers and crew on board a Scoot flight to Thailand that turned around and returned to Singapore on Thursday after a bomb threat disembarked safely, police said. "The passenger who allegedly …

Defence in Kim Jong Nam trial casts doubt on poison test lab

The laboratory that tested the nerve agent allegedly used to assassinate the North Korean leader's half-brother was not on the list of centres approved by the global chemical weapons watchdog, a Mala…

Russia pushes for UN talks after joint spy probe rebuffed

Russia has called for urgent UN Security Council talks on the spiralling diplomatic crisis sparked by the spy poisoning scandal as a group of expelled US diplomats left their embassy in Moscow early …

New York police shoot black man holding pipe after reports he had firearm

New York police officers on Wednesday shot to death a black man who pointed a metal pipe at them, after responding to emergency callers who said the man was aiming a firearm at pedestrians, a police …

Philippines to close Boracay island to tourists for six months

The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewag…

NGO threatens Shell with lawsuit over climate 'destruction'

An environmental campaign group on Wednesday threatened to take Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell to court should it fail to comply with climate targets set out under the Paris Agreement."Frien…

French student protests add to Macron's rail strike woes

Growing protests at French universities on Wednesday added to pressure on President Emmanuel Macron over his sweeping reform agenda, as rail workers pressed on with rolling strikes that are causing h…

Turkey, Russia and Iran urge 'lasting ceasefire' in Syria

Turkey, Russia and Iran on Wednesday said they were committed to achieving a "lasting ceasefire" in Syria, in a joint statement issued following a summit in Ankara hosted by Turkish President Recep T…

China: Wife marches for 'vanished' husband

The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate.Li Wenzu is walking from Beijing to Tianjin, where she thinks Wang Quanzhan…

Indian woman Rupali Meshram fights off tiger with stick

A young Indian woman was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger which attacked her goat.Rupali Meshram, 23, said when she heard the goat scream she ran out of her house in wester…

Dog Kills Mother And Son in Germany

A 52-year-old woman and her 27-year-old son have been found dead at their home in northern Germany after apparently being mauled by their Staffordshire terrier, police said Wednesday.The pair were di…

France suffers second day of mass rail strikes

Millions of French travellers suffered a second day of major disruption Wednesday as rail workers pressed on with rolling strikes that pose one of the toughest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Ma…

Russia says spy poisoning 'grotesque provocation' by UK, US

The head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency said Wednesday the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain was a "grotesque provocation" by the British and US security services."Ev…

Trump vows to deploy military to Mexican border

President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to deploy the military to secure America's southern border, as a caravan of Central American migrants headed north through Mexico toward the United States.The …

Chinese medical students honour body donors for 'Tomb Sweeping Day'

Chinese medical students in white gowns held white chrysanthemums at a memorial for their "silent teachers" -- people who donated their bodies to science -- ahead of the annual "Tomb Sweeping Day" ho…

Mob burns homes in fresh India caste violence

Hundreds of Indian security forces enforced a curfew on a tense district Wednesday after a mob set fire to the homes of two political figures from the country's low-caste Dalit community.Amid heighte…

Female suspect dead, several hurt in YouTube shooting

Gunfire erupted at YouTube's offices in California Tuesday, leaving three people wounded and sparking a panicked escape before the suspected shooter -- a woman -- apparently committed suicide.Califor…

Indonesia declares state of emergency as oil spill spreads

Indonesia has declared a state of emergency to help stop a deadly oil spill spreading off the coast of the island of Borneo.At least four fishermen in the port city of Balikpapan were killed over the…