By Ece Toksabay and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – At least 86 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday, weeks ahead of an election, in the deadliest attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Bodies covered by flags and banners, including those of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), lay scattered on the
By Sylvia Westall and Jason Bush BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence. Russia, a top ally of President Bashar al-Assad, started bombing in Syria on Sept. 30 saying it was targeting Islamic State and
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they say is anti-democratic and will lower food safety, labor and environmental standards. Organizers – an alliance of environmental groups, charities and opposition parties – said 250,000 people were taking part in the rally against free trade deals with both the United States and Canada,
By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and in Israeli cities
By James Pearson PYONGYANG (Reuters) – Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States. Thousands of troops stood at attention under a blue autumn sky in Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung Square, named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Many people were wounded on Saturday in a triple bombing targeting a market and refugee camp in the village of Baga Sola in Chad that security sources blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group. “We are still collecting the victims. We don’t have a figure yet (for the number of wounded),” a health worker at a hospital in the border town on Lake Chad told Reuters. (Reporting
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Developments relating to Saturday’s deadly bombing of a peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara. All times local.
ROME (AP) — Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace have had their life bans for match-fixing lifted by the Italian tennis federation.
BERLIN (AP) — Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who just won the Nobel Prize for literature, said Saturday there is no doubt Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected president this weekend because the process is entirely under his control.
Syrian government forces captured a village from rebels in the central province of Hama Saturday as they pressed a ground operation backed by Russian air support. In the northern Aleppo province, rebels battled to reverse an advance by the Islamic State group that brought the jihadists to within a few kilometres (miles) of Syria’s second city. In Hama, regime forces seized Atshan village from opposition fighters, including Islamists and Al-Qaeda