AFP, Chicago: A gunman killed six people in a shooting spree in the northern US state of Michigan, police said Sunday, after arresting an armed 45-year-old white male for the crime. Officials corrected an earlier report of seven dead, stating that one of the victims was alive but seriously injured.…

AFP, Kampala: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni celebrated extending his three decades in power with a walk with his beloved cows, after an election rejected as fraudulent by the opposition and criticised by the international community. Uganda's veteran leader was on Saturday proclaimed the…

AFP, Srinagar: A second soldier was killed Sunday in a continuing gunbattle between militants and troops and police in Indian Kashmir, taking the overall death toll in the day-long clashes to five. The attackers, thought to number three or four, ambushed a paramilitary convoy on the outskirts of the…

AFP, Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his country's fight against Kurdish fighters in Syria as "legitimate defence", after international powers urged Ankara to rein in its cross-border bombardments. Turkey has been shelling targets in northern Syria for the past…

AFP, Sydney: Australia was Sunday set to allow an asylum-seeker's baby to remain in the country instead of being deported back to a remote Pacific detention camp, in what refugee advocates claimed as a victory after a public outcry. Under Canberra's harsh immigration policy, asylum-seekers attempting…

AFP, Seoul: North Korean state media on Sunday confirmed the country has a new military chief following earlier reports in Seoul that the former holder of the post had been executed. Ri Myong-Su, former People's Security Minister, was referred to as "chief of the Korean People's Army General…