At least 50 people were killed on Saturday when a suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives among people dancing on the street at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, the local governor’s office said.
Iran released images of its first domestically built long-range missile defence system on Sunday, a project started when the country was under international sanctions.
Chinese planes and ships held war games in the Sea of Japan last week, the military said, during which Beijing displayed its latest-generation frigate at a time of bitter territorial disputes with Asian neighbours.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump moved to overhaul his struggling campaign on Thursday, tapping a seasoned political operative and the head of the conservative website Breitbart News for top roles.
In an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for thousands of people who have been arrested as part of an investigation into last month’s failed coup, Turkey issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of some 38,000 prisoners, the Justice Minister said on Wednesday.
A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction’s longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year.
At least 31 people were killed on Monday and several others injured when a crowded bus skidded off the road and fell some 300 meters down the hill in central Nepal. The incident took place as the bus with 85 passengers, heading for Kattike Deurali from Kathmandu, skidded off the road at Birta Deurali-7 in Read More
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapon programme and defended the deployment of a US anti-missile system in the face of repeated “provocations” by Pyongyang.
Pakistan on Sunday commemorated its Independence Day with national zeal and fervour. The day dawned with 31 gun salute in the federal and 21 gun salute in the provincial capitals, Radio Pakistan reported. The main ceremony of Independence Day was held at the Convention Centre in Islamabad where President Mamnoon Hussain along with Prime Minister Read More
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro revived old enmities with the United States as he celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, skewering Havana’s Cold War foe for its repeated attempts on his life.
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