The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day has been caught in the city’s Esenyurt district, the Hurriyet newspaper website and other media reports said on Tuesday. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
» Read moreA Bangladesh court sentenced 26 people, including three senior officers from the country’s elite security force, to death on Monday after convicting them of murdering seven people who were abducted outside a cricket stadium. The bodies of the victims were found floating in a river in April 2014, three days after witnesses reported seeing them being bundled into an unmarked […]
» Read moreA Turkish Airlines cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 20 people, most of them residents of village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog, Kyrgyz officials said. According to the airport administration, the plane was supposed to make a stopover at Manas, near the capital city Bishkek, on […]
» Read moreTwin explosions were heard near the Afghan Parliament in Kabul on Tuesday and the interior ministry said there could be scores of casualties in the latest terror attack. 23 people have been killed and more than 20 have been injured, according to Reuters. At least one of the blasts was apparently caused by a car bomb, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi […]
» Read moreA powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck under the Celebes Sea off the southern Philippines on Tuesday but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which was set off by movement of oceanic plates 625 kilometres under the […]
» Read moreFormer Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pugnacious political survivor despite his support for moderates, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack, news agencies reported. Mr. Rafsanjani, who was 82, was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic Republic in 1979, and served as President from 1989 to 1997. He had been admitted to the Shohadaa Hospital […]
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