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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivers a speech during a Turkish Anatolian Publishers Association Members meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara yesterday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Wednesday invited the European states to respect democratic values and human rights amid the recent banning of Turkish ministers from meeting ministers in Europe. The president also criticized the […]

London terror attack Four dead in Westminster terror attack Image gallery In pictures: ‘Terrorist incident’ at Westminster LIVE Westminster attack – latest updates Video ‘Get under cover now!’ Four people have died and 20 people have been injured after what police are treating as terrorist attacks in Westminster, earlier on Wednesday. Here is what we […]

A file photo of anti-mafia police carrying out a raid. Photo: Jacques Munch/AFP Italian police on Wednesday captured a notorious Calabrian mobster wanted over a 2007 mafia massacre in which six people died in the German city of Duisburg. Santo Vottari, 45, was captured in a tiny hideout in a flat at Benestare, near the […]

Items seized from the two men. Photo: DPA Germany said on Tuesday it will deport two men arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack, despite the fact that while their parents are foreigners, they were both born in the country. This is the first time in Germany’s history that such a decision has been […]

MHospital staff prepare 10-month old “Baby Dominique” for surgery to treat the infant born with four legs and two spines at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, U.S., March 8, 2017. (Reuters Photo) A baby girl from the Ivory Coast born with four legs and two spines has been successfully separated from a parasitic twin […]

David Rockefeller, left, with Nelson Mandela in 1998.  (REUTERS/Peter Morgan) David Rockefeller, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the last in his generation of one of the country’s most famously philanthropic families, died Monday. He was 101. Rockefeller died in his sleep at his home in suburban Pocantico Hills, New York, according to his […]

According to Malaysia’s Racial Discrimination Report 2016, discrimination based on ethnicity in education, healthcare, finance, workforce and welfare continued on an upward trend. File pix by NURUL SHAFINA JEMENON. By ARFA YUNUS – March 22, 2017 @ 12:28am PETALING JAYA: Racial discrimination in Malaysia remains high despite ongoing efforts by the government to promote moderation […]

JEDDAH: The UN on Monday rejected the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s request for the key Yemeni port of Al-Hodeida to be placed under its supervision. UN spokesman Farhan Haq said the warring sides in Yemen have a responsibility to protect civilian infrastructure and civilians, adding: “These are not obligations they can shift to others.” Coalition spokesman […]

BOSASSO: The head of anti-piracy operations in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia said he had been fired for speaking out about illegal fishing, which he claims could trigger a new outbreak of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Pirates hijacked an oil tanker off Somalia last week, the first such attack in the region since […]

Former President Park Geun-hye speaks upon her arrival at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in southern Seoul for questioning, Tuesday. / Korea Times photo by Koh Young-kwon By Jun Ji-hye The prosecution plans to bring charges against former President Park Geun-hye after looking into 13 corruption allegations raised against her. If convicted on all […]