ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned the Netherlands it would pay a price for preventing top ministers from holding rallies ahead of a referendum on expanding his powers, as a crisis escalated with Turkey's key EU partners, reports AFP. Erdogan renewed hugely controversial…

MOSUL: Iraqi security forces have seized control of more than a third of west Mosul, a commander said Sunday, after a week of steady gains in their battle to retake the city from the Islamic State group, reports AFP. Fierce fighting has shaken Mosul in recent days as thousands of US-backed Iraqi soldiers…

BEIJING: In his January inauguration speech, US President Donald Trump made a seemingly straightforward pledge: "We will follow two simple rules:…

ROME: A fugitive Italian mobster who had been living in Mexico under a false identity was behind bars Saturday after being tracked down on Facebook, police…

TOKYO: Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich nation in nearly five decades, reports AFP. The 81-year-old king, who was greeted by Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito at Haneda airport, will meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…

BERLIN: Europe's most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time next week America's flamboyant President Donald Trump whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic, reports AFP. While former US president Barack Obama had labelled Merkel his "closest…