Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says Turkey's intelligence agency has snatched at least 80 Turkish nationals wanted for their alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, in operations in 18 countries. Bozdag's comments during a television interview Thursday came after Turkey...

South Korea's air force said one of its F-15K fighter jets crashed Thursday at a mountain in the country's rural south. It isn't immediately clear what caused the crash or whether both pilots safely ejected. The air force said crews are searching for the pilots who were flying back to...

 Ride-hailing service Uber Thursday said it would suspend one of its two services in Greece after the approval of tighter sector rules. The San-Francisco based company said it would sideline from April 10 a service employing private drivers, which has sparked protests from cabbies...

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Wednesday it had signed a deal with French building and engineering group Artelia to manage the development of its offices in the eastern city of Benghazi. There have been plans for years to move the state oil firm's headquarters from the...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Thursday he would not back down on plans to overhaul the state-run SNCF railways, as the pro-reform CFDT labor union said it would take part in a further wave of strikes starting on Sunday. Philippe reiterated that he would not enter into...

Yemen’s armed Houthi movement launched a missile at storage tanks belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan province Wednesday, said Yemeni state news agency Saba, which is controlled by the group. Saudi air defenses shot down a missile in the skies above...

Although it's true that Manchester City have a poor record at Anfield, they were still shellshocked by a three-goal blast from Liverpool in the first half of their Champions League quarterfinal. Subjected to a barrage of missiles as their coach reached the ground, something for which...

Bahrain on Wednesday announced its newly discovered shale oil reserve was estimated at more than 80 billion barrels, making the once-marginal oil producer potentially a major player in the market. The size of recoverable oil -- or oil that can be extracted -- is still under study, Oil...

British companies have until midnight to publish their gender pay gap, as Prime Minister Theresa May promised to tackle the "injustice" of unequal earnings between the sexes. The government has told all firms with more than 250 employees to publish by Wednesday the difference in median...

Ten international rights groups called on French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday to pressure Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over his country's bombing campaign in Yemen. Macron is set to host Prince Mohammed for a three-day trip to France starting Sunday, the latest stop...

Anyone still wondering why the world is fawning over Cristiano Ronaldo's incredible strike against Juventus need only realise that his foot connected with the ball at a massive 2 metres, 38 centimetres in the air. Achieving such clean contact on the ball at that height, only six...

Russia Wednesday accused British and US secret services of being behind the poisoning of a Russian former double agent as the world's chemical weapons watchdog held a closed-door meeting on the incident at Moscow's request. Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin in a speech...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday met in the Turkish capital Ankara. The closed door meeting at the presidential complex started at 10.55 a.m. local time (0755GMT) and ended at 11.55 a.m. (0855GMT) . During the meeting, the...

The special envoy investigating the plight of the Rohingya Muslims issued a report Tuesday that encouraged Canada to accept refugees displaced by persecution in Myanmar. The report by former Ontario premier and Toronto MP Bob Rae, also recommended sanctions and prosecution against those...

President Donald Trump is offering strong support for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency who is at the center of swirling ethics questions, the White House said Tuesday. The president called Pruitt Monday and told him that "we've got your back" and urged him...

Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea Tuesday, causing "minor damage" to the ship, the Saudi-led coalition battling the rebels said. Coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said the attack occurred at 1:30 p.m. (10:30 GMT) in international waters west of the...

A Dutch attorney who lied to federal agents investigating former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in prison in the first punishment handed down in special counsel's Russia investigation. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. Alex van der...

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border Tuesday, the health ministry in the strip said, as tensions remained days after 17 people were killed when a mass demonstration led to clashes. The ministry identified the dead man as 25-year-old Ahmad Arafa, saying he was...

 Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which Turkey is about to start building with Russia, is set to be launched in 2023. Speaking on a visit to Turkey, Putin also said that he was grateful for Turkey's decision to give the Akkuyu...

A leading submarine expert Tuesday challenged Danish inventor Peter Madsen's claim that Swedish journalist Kim Wall was killed by toxic fumes in his homemade vessel last year, as he faces trial for her murder. Madsen, 47, who is accused of premeditated murder, sexual assault and desecration...