AFP, ISTANBUL: Turkey on Thursday vowed to press on with the fight against “terror”, a day after 14 Turkish soldiers were killed by jihadists in an intensifying battle for a flashpoint Syrian town, Ankara’s biggest loss of its Syria campaign so far. The soldiers were killed in a succession…

AFP, SRINAGAR, India: In a consultation room in a Kashmiri hospital, Parvaiz Ahmed struggles to find the words to describe how his interrogation at the…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The United States played down Russian reports Wednesday that already tense ties between the old foes have plunged to chilly new lows. The State Department denied a Kremlin claim that communications are frozen, noting that Secretary of State John Kerry had called his Russian counterpart…

AFP, NEW DELHI: Police have rescued 70 victims of human trafficking, including 33 children, in a restive and impoverished region of central India, an official said Thursday. The victims, who had been sold to factories and brick kilns, were being transported on a bus when police intercepted the vehicle…

AFP, BEIJING: China on Thursday launched a satellite to monitor carbon dioxide levels, state media said, making the Asian giant the third country to track the potent contributor to global warming from space. The TanSat probe will allow China to keep a close eye on greenhouse gas emissions and give it…

AFP, MOSCOW: The death toll in Siberia from people drinking bath essence containing methanol rose to 71 Thursday, the Russian health ministry said. A total of 117 people in the city of Irkutsk have suffered the effects of methanol poisoning since the weekend, “71 of whom have died,” said…