AFP, BERLIN: A leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party admitted Sunday that it has a problem with sexism in its ranks, after a female politician spoke out about vulgar and belittling comments. Peter Tauber, general secretary of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told…

AFP, BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Serbs in Bosnia voted Sunday on whether to keep celebrating their January statehood day, which is tied to the…

AFP, LOS ANGELES: Authorities have arrested a Turkish-born man suspected of shooting five people dead, including a teenaged cancer survivor, at a shopping mall in the US state of Washington. Police named the suspect as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old resident of the nearby town of Oak Harbor, saying he was…

AFP, SANAA: A Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen killed nine members of the same family, including several children, on Sunday in the southwestern rebel-held city of Ibb, witnesses and medics said. Eleven neighbours were also wounded when the family’s house, on the southern edge of the mountain…

AFP, AMMAN: A prominent Jordanian writer was shot dead Sunday on the steps of a court where he was facing charges for sharing an anti-Islam cartoon online, in an attack condemned as “heinous”. Nahed Hattar was struck by three bullets before the alleged assassin was arrested at the scene…

AFP, BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed six people in western Baghdad on Sunday, a security spokesman said, a day after bomb and gun attacks hit a city north of the capital. The bomber detonated an explosive belt in the Iskan area, also wounding 18 people, according to a statement from security spokes­man…