AFP, BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects Turkey to stick to a deal to limit refugee flows to the EU even after the announced resignation of its prime minister, her spokesman said Friday. “The chancellor has worked very well until now with Turkish Prime Minister (Ahmet) Davutoglu and…

AFP, DAMASCUS: Syria’s military denied Friday any involvement in air strikes that killed at least 28 civilians in a camp for displaced people near the Turkish border, state media said. “There is no truth in the information in some media that the Syrian air force targeted the displaced camp…

AFP, RIYADH: A Saudi police officer has been shot dead in the Makka region, the interior ministry said on Friday, after four suspected jihadists died during a raid in the same area. Corporal Khalaf al-Harithi was on duty at a station in the western region on Thursday evening when he was hit by gunfire…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Close aides to Hillary Clinton including longtime confidante Huma Abedin have been interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into the ex-secretary of state’s use of a private email server, CNN reported Thursday. The interviews, confirmed to the network by US officials…

AFP, YANGON: A landslide in northern Myanmar’s notoriously dangerous jade mining region has killed 13 people, a local official said Friday, the latest deadly incident to hit the secretive billion-dollar industry. The men died when a wall of unstable earth collapsed and buried them in Kachin state,…

AFP, VIENNA: An Austrian man has been arrested for allegedly placing two pig heads on an Islamic centre and mosque being built in the southern city of Graz, police said Friday. “He put the pig heads on the construction site and smeared the minaret with blood,” police spokesman Leo Josephus…

AFP, TRIPOLI: Commanders in Libya’s third city Misrata rushed militiamen to a key crossroads on Friday after it was overrun by the Islamic State group in an assault in which a suicide bomber killed two police. The Abu Grein crossroads lies 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Misrata where the highway…