Turkey activists in Amnesty case to stand trial AFP, Istanbul Eleven human rights activists, including the two top figures with Amnesty International in Turkey, are due to go on trial Wednesday on contested terror charges, seen by the rights watchdog as a test case for the judiciary.All bar two of the activists-who include two foreigners-have been behind bars since a police raid in July on a workshop run by Amnesty on a popular island off Istanbul. Macron backs Sisi fight...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday invited Republican and Democratic leaders from Congress for a meeting to seek an end to...
AP, Moscow :Russian special forces are helping Syrian government troops fight Islamic State militants in the battle underway for the...
Reuters, Washington :The United Nations has not declared a breakdown in Syrian peace talks and the United States still sees...
Reuters, Brussels :European leaders say they no longer have any illusions about Donald Trump as they welcome the U.S. president...
Al Jazeera News :Algerians have approved constitutional reforms in a referendum, though with a record low turnout, the country’s constitutional...
Reuters, Moscow :The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan held a phone...
AP, Colombo :Rival lawmakers exchanged blows in Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Thursday as disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed the...
International Business Times :Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces the first test of popularity as the country...
AFP, Nicosia :“Love, we have no aim but to be defeated in your wars,” wrote the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish....
AFP, Riyadh :When Saudi Arabia’s king Abdullah died a year ago on Saturday, his subjects expected their country to keep...