Thousands rally in Turkey after opposition lawmaker jailed
ANKARA – Several thousand people have taken to the streets of Turkey’s two biggest cities to protest against a 25-year prison sentence handed down to an opposition lawmaker on spying charges.…
US arrests nearly 200 Iraqis in deportation sweep
DETROIT – US immigration authorities have arrested and moved to deport 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks after Iraq agreed to accept deportees…
Ireland elects first gay prime minister Leo Varadkar
DUBLIN – Leo Varadkar has been elected Irish Prime Minister, making the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the once-staunchly Catholic country’s first gay premier and the youngest person to hold…
Fire engulfs London tower block, at least six dead, more than 70 injured
LONDON – Fire engulfed a 24-storey housing block in central London in the early hours of today, killing at least six people and injuring 70 others in an inferno that…
Singapore leader’s siblings say they feel threatened, have lost confidence in him
SINGAPORE – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s younger brother and sister say they have lost confidence in the nation’s leader and fear “the use of the organs of the state…
Death toll from Bangladesh landslides rises to 134 after heavy rain
DHAKA – At least 134 people have been killed in Bangladesh after a series landslides triggered by heavy rain buried hillside homes, officials say. Densely populated Bangladesh is battered by storms, floods…
Huge fire engulfs 27-storey London tower block
LONDON – A huge fire has engulfed a 27-storey block of flats in central London, injuring a number of people. Massive flames licked up the sides of the block as…
Hundreds suffer food poisoning at Iraqi camp east of Mosul
ERBIL, Iraq – About 800 people have fallen ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, officials…
North Korea releases US student held for 17 months
WASHINGTON – North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, a US university student held captive there for 17 months, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. Warmbier, 22, a University of…
Trump eyes Supreme Court after appeals court rejects travel ban
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has criticised a federal appeals court one day after it handed him another legal setback by refusing to revive his US travel ban on people…
