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Toll from Turkey coup bid climbs to more than 290 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helps to carry a coffin with a victim of a thwarted coup following a funeral service in Istanbul,...

Venezuelan shoppers flock across border to Colombia 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Venezuelans cross the Simon Bolivar bridge linking San Antonio del Tachira, in Venezuela with Cucuta, Colombia in order to buy supplies, on July...

Voters in Sao Tome and Principe choose new president 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Voters wait to cast their vote at a polling station during presidential elections on July 17, 2016 in Sao Tome, capital of the...

Baton Rouge: A city divided between police and the policed 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

A police officer blocks off a road near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States,...

Cameroon hostages freed from captivity in Central African Republic 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

YAOUNDE: Eleven hostages from Cameroon were freed on Sunday following 16 months of captivity, after having been abducted by a militia group from...

Libya PM-designate urges unity for fractured country 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj speaks during a press conference following his meeting with representatives of Libyan political parties on July 17, 2016...

One dead as gunmen seize hostages in Armenia police station raid 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Armenian police detain an opposition supporter, artist Nikol Aghababyan, next to a police check point blocking the streets to Erebuni police station in...

Erdogan breaks down in tears at funeral for friend killed in coup 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and former Turkish president Abdullah Gul (C-R) attend the funeral of a victim of the coup attempt...

Israel launches anti-aircraft missiles at Syrian drone: army 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

A Syrian carries the body of a child following reported air strikes on July 17, 2016 in the rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Maysar in...

Three police officers shot dead in Baton Rouge, gunman killed 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Police officers arrive near the site of a shooting of police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney By...

Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Protection civil agents stand around people hugging each other outside Pasteur hospital in the French riviera town of Nice on July 17, 2016,...

Turkey widens crackdown on military, judiciary after failed coup 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

A heavily armed sniper stands in a garden and secures the area before the arrival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a...

Punk pioneer Alan Vega of Suicide dead at 78 18 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

This file photo taken on March 5, 2004 shows US singer Alan Vega performs in the western French city of Nantes as part...

Erdogan aide in custody after attempted coup 17 Jul 2016 - 06:51 pm

Photo courtesy: aksam.com.tr Istanbul: A military aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was taken into custody on Sunday accused of involvement in...

Blaze engulfs Saudi Mecca hotel, no casualties 17 Jul 2016 - 06:33 pm

Riyadh: A fire ripped through an uninhabited hotel in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Sunday without causing casualties, the civil defence...

Two years on, villagers, relatives mourn MH17 crash 17 Jul 2016 - 06:24 pm

Local villagers walk past pictures of the passengers of MH17 flight at a makeshift memorial in Petropavlivka village, Donetsk region, on the second...

Hizmet: The Turkish global network accused of launching a coup 17 Jul 2016 - 06:21 pm

For their opponents, it is a shadowy organisation with links in the media and business whose spiritual leader Fethullah Gulen has much unelected...