AFP, WASHINGTON: An ambush-style shooting at a backyard barbecue in the northeastern US state of Pennsylvania has killed five people and at least two suspects are still on the run, authorities said Thursday. Two men are in critical condition and a woman is stable in the wake of the bloodshed that unfolded…

AFP, KIRKUK: Hundreds of protesters blocked Iraq’s main highway Thursday to demand strikes against a town from which the Islamic State group launched a chemical attack. Seventeen residents of the town of Taza were being treated following a rocket attack launched on Wednesday from Bashir, south…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: A South African court ruled Thursday that a Polish immigrant who shot dead the anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani in 1993 should be released on parole after 23 years behind bars. Janusz Walus, 63, is serving a life sentence for the murder, which took the country to the brink of a race…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed forcefully on the debate stage Wednesday, with the Democratic presidential rivals opening…

AFP, KUALA LUMPUR: A piece of debris found in Mozambique arrived in Malaysia on Thursday for initial investigations into whether it came from missing flight MH370 before being taken to Australia for deeper analysis, officials said. Department of Civil Aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman confirmed…

AFP, ANKARA: At least five migrants, including a baby, drowned as they tried to sail from Turkey to Greece, the Dogan news agency reported on Thursday. The raft, which was transporting Afghan and Iranian migrants to the Greek island of Lesbos, foundered just 500 metres (550 yards) from the Turkish coast…