AFP, ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey should not be “fixated” on joining the EU and has reiterated the idea of joining Russia and China in a Eurasian security group, local media reported Sunday. His comments come as Turkey’s decades-long hopes of joining the European…

For 20 years, Laura Avila had yearned to hug her mother again. On Saturday, tears streaming down her face, the 35-year-old had her wish finally come true—if…

AFP, SANAA: Violence subsided Sunday in Yemen, a day after the beginning of a 48-hour ceasefire declared by the pro-government Arab coalition battling rebel fighters for almost 20 months. An AFP correspondent in Sanaa said there had not been any air strikes in the rebel-held capital by warplanes of…

AP Paris: A few hundred people have protested in Paris against US President-elect Donald Trump, expressing their concern about whether he will respect human rights, women and minorities. Protesters, including many Americans living in France, took to the streets Saturday in the Eiffel Tower neighborhood…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said Sunday that President Park Geun-Hye colluded with her close confidante in a corruption and influence-peddling scandal that has sparked massive nationwide protests and calls for her impeachment. Park’s longtime friend Choi Soon-Sil was charged Sunday with…

AFP, BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her conservative party Sunday that she wants to seek a fourth term in elections next year, party sources told the news agency. After months of feverish speculation, she told leaders of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that she was prepared to carry…

AFP, RENNES, France: Winds gusting to hurricane force left nearly 70,000 homes in western and northwestern France without power Sunday, the national electricity grid Enedis said. The national weather agency Meteo France said winds powering to 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour battered the Breton peninsula…