AFP, CHICAGO: Protests broke out and US police responded with teargas after an 18-year-old black man was shot dead in a confrontation with white officers in St. Louis, Missouri, officials said Wednesday. The city is close to the trouble spot of Ferguson, where a police killing of an unarmed black man…

AFP, WASHINGTON: After embarrassing false starts, Barack Obama is making a final push to close Guantanamo prison, but to fulfill that glaringly incomplete campaign promise he faces unpalatable compromises and internal resistance. When Congress returns from recess in September, Obama’s top counterterror…

AFP, JAYAPURA: The bodies of all 54 people killed in a plane crash in eastern Indonesia have been recovered from a remote jungle site and flown to hospital, an official said yesterday. Authorities had initially hoped to use helicopters to transport the remains of Sunday’s crash from the site in…

AFP, CALAIS, France: Britain and France announced a new “command and control centre” yesterday to tackle smuggling gangs in Calais, as Europe grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II. Under a deal signed by Home Minister Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea yesterday fired dozens of shells into North Korea after detecting a rocket fired across the heavily-militarised border from the North, Seoul’s defence ministry said. The exchange of fire came at a time of elevated cross-border tensions, following mine blasts that maimed…

AFP, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan air strikes killed 43 suspected militants near the Afghan border yesterday, the military said, part of a major ongoing operation against Taliban and other insurgents. The attacks took place in  Gharlamai and Shawal areas of North Waziristan tribal region, where the army…