AFP, TEHRAN: Anti-Saudi protests were held in Iran on Friday against Riyadh’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and after Tehran accused its regional rival of bombing its Yemen embassy. A week-long diplomatic crisis between the Middle East’s leading Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers has…

AFP, NEW YORK: New York will appoint an independent monitor to review counter-terror police investigations as part of reforms designed to protect Muslims from discriminatory and blanket surveillance, officials said Thursday. Civil liberty campaigners welcomed the changes, which settle two lawsuits,…

AFP, TRIPOLI: The Islamic State group has claimed a deadly suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Libya’s oil heartland, as EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini seeks to shore up support for a unity government. Fears that the jihadists are establishing a new stronghold on Europe’s doorstep…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Donald Trump dredged up a photo of Monica Lewinsky in a 15-second video montage Thursday, as the Republican presidential frontrunner…

AFP, ISTANBUL: Turkish police on Friday raided the offices of the main pro-Kurdish party in central Istanbul, making arrests and seizing documents.Riot police blocked the entry to the street where the Beyoglu district office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is located while anti-terror police…

AFP, BERLIN: Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation for offences including assault and theft in Cologne on New Year’s Eve with the perpetrators of sexual assaults yet to be identified,Germany’s interior ministry said Friday. “Of the 31 suspects whose…

AFP, JERUSALEM: Four Palesti­nians were shot dead by Israeli forces Thursday after trying to stab them in two incidents in the southern West Bank, the army said. “Three attackers, armed with knives, attempted to stab soldiers guarding the Gush Etzion junction,” a statement said, adding…

AFP, PARIS: French anti-terror investigators were on Friday seeking to identify a man shot dead while trying to storm a Paris police station brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest. The man was shot dead by officers as he ran towards the entrance of the police station waving the meat…