(Daily Star)- An Istanbul court Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the...

(Daily Star)- A mayor detained at a jail in the central Philippines for drug-related charges was killed along with another inmate in a shootout Saturday, police said, as a bloody crackdown on narcotics continues in the Southeast Asian country. Rolando Espinosa, mayor of Albuera town in...

  (Eqtsad)- Mohamed, a pseudonym, is a Syrian refugee in France. He thinks that he indirectly ate a whole pig and also he ate a significant amount of non-halal meat. He also drank without knowing at least two bottles of alcohol and gambled when his friend asked him for the first time to...

Syrian rebels and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo on Friday, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause. The rebels' own shelling of residential parts of government-held western Aleppo...