AFP, LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labour party plunged into turmoil Sunday and the prospect of Scottish independence drew closer, ahead of a showdown with EU leaders over the country’s seismic vote to leave the bloc. Two days after Prime Minister David Cameron resigned over his failure to…

AFP, KUWAIT CITY: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to meet Sunday with Yemen’s warring sides in a bid to push forward peace talks that have made no headway after two months. Ban, who arrived in Kuwait City late on Saturday, was to meet delegates from the Iran-backed rebels and the Yemeni government…

AFP, YEREVAN: The Vatican on Sunday hit back at claims from Turkey that Pope Francis showed a “mentality of the Crusades” after he denounced the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as “genocide”. The pope has stirred Turkish anger during a three-day visit to ex-Soviet…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The death toll from flooding in the US state of West Virginia rose to 24, as President Barack Obama declared a major disaster, releasing…

AFP, MOGADISHU: A junior minister was among 11 people killed in an attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The body of Buri Mohamed Hamza, minister of state in the prime minister’s office for the environment, has been…

AFP, BEIJING: At least 30 people were killed when a large bus burst into flames after crashing into the side of a road in central China on Sunday, state media said. A total of 56 people were on board the bus which crashed in Hunan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported, suggesting casualties…