AFP, KABUL: Medical charity MSF said Sunday it has withdrawn staff from the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz, a day after an apparent US bombing raid on its hospital which the UN said could amount to a war crime. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 19 people were killed, some of whom burned to death in…

AFP, TEHRAN: A panel of Iranian lawmakers said Sunday that the inspections regime underpinning the country’s nuclear deal with world powers represented a security threat, but the agreement should go ahead anyway. The 15-member committee spent weeks reviewing the text of the July 14 agreement,…

AFP, BANGKOK: The son of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has handed police a reward of nearly $200,000 for their investigation into the deadly Bangkok blast, after authorities declared the first suspect arrested was the bomber. The unprecedented August attack at a shrine in a bustling shopping…

AFP,  RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinian government denounced “Israeli escalation” on Sunday after the Jewish state temporarily banned Palestinians from entering Jerusalem’s Old City following attacks that killed two people and wounded a child. “The Palestinian…

AFP, SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala: At least 69 people were killed when massive mudslides buried scores of homes on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital city, officials said Saturday, as the death toll continued to climb. An estimated 300 people were still missing, two days after the landslides…