Ankara,--The Turkish parliament on Wednesday postponed until next week a debate on a controversial security bill bolstering police powers that critics claim could...
Ankara,--The Turkish parliament on Wednesday postponed until next week a debate on a controversial security bill bolstering police powers that critics claim could...
Zambia's founding father Lusaka,--Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda has been hospitalised for an undisclosed ailment, his family said Wednesday. Kaunda, 90, was admitted...
Tokyo--Tokyo police officers will take part in the city's marathon this month among regular runners, the force said Wednesday, as Japan ramps up...
Taipei--At least 16 people were killed Wednesday when a turboprop passenger plane operated by TransAsia Airways clipped a road bridge and plunged into...
Cameroon army Yaoundé--=Cameroon soldiers clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the border town of Fotokol on Wednesday as the Islamists fled an offensive...
Cleric Fethullah Gulen Istanbul--Turkey on Wednesday defended the seizure of an Islamic bank allied to an arch-foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the...
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo Beijing--China on Wednesday sharply criticised Norway for expelling a Chinese academic, in the latest diplomatic fracas to roil relations...
Greece PM Brussels--Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during a visit to Brussels on Wednesday that he believed it was possible to...
Yaoundé--Boko Haram fighters slit civilians' throats and torched the main mosque in the Cameroon border town of Fotokol during an attack on Wednesday...
Bangkok,--Thai police on Wednesday said they had detained a 25-year-old man for suspected royal defamation after he allegedly posted online a forged report...
Beirut,--Syrian Kurdish fighters in the battleground town of Kobane commemorated Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh as a "martyr" after his brutal execution by their...
Tripoli--Gunmen attacked a Libyan oil field partially owned by France's Total during the night but staff were successfully evacuated, the state-owned National Oil...
Nice, France--French investigators were Wednesday interrogating a knife-wielding man who attacked three soldiers outside a Jewish centre in Nice, as questions resurfaced over...
Rome--Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Athens needs up to six weeks to draft an economic recovery plan, as it lobbies its European...
Harare--Six children and a woman were killed by a single bolt of lightning as they sheltered in their thatched homestead in rural Zimbabwe,...
Freetown,--Sierra Leone said on Wednesday it would reopen the country's schools on March 30, after a seven-month shutdown to limit the spread of...
Arbil, Iraq--Nearly 1,000 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed fighting the Islamic State jihadist group since June, a senior security official said...
Ahmed Tayib Cairo--Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious centre of learning, expressed outrage at the Islamic State group for burning to death a captive...
