AFP, MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday was to meet with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Monday in a bid to shore up a shaky truce over disputed Nagorny Karabakh. Putin, the regional power-broker, was to sit down separately with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his Azerbaijani…

AFP, NAIROBI: Five Kenyan policemen were killed Monday when suspected radical Shabaab fighters attacked their convoy in the far northeast of the country, the local governor said. The police vehicle exploded into flames after it was hit by a suspected rocket-propelled grenade as it provided security…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Tens of thousands of people took part in a candlelight vigil in downtown Orlando on Sunday to remember victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub one week ago. On stage, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer thanked first responders to the attack and told survivors and victims’ families that…

AFP, ALGIERS: Algerian soldiers killed 14 armed Islamist militants in an ongoing operation south of the capital on Sunday, the defence ministry said giving a new toll. It said the “terrorists” were killed in an ambush in a mountainous area of the Medea region, about 80 kilometres (50 miles)…

Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should “seriously” consider profiling Muslims inside the country as a terrorism-fighting tool,…

AFP, MOSCOW: At least 14 children on a summer camp in northeast Russia drowned when their boats capsized in a storm on a lake, investigators said Sunday. The accident happened overnight on Lake Syamozero, close to the border with Finland, according to Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s…