ISTANBUL: Turkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 missile defence systems, its first major weapons purchase from Moscow, in an accord that could trouble Ankara's NATO allies, reports AFP. The purchase of the surface-to-air missile defence batteries, Ankara's most significant deal with…

MARIGOT: French President Emmanuel Macron travelled Tuesday to the hurricane-hit Caribbean, joining the Dutch king in the region for a tour of the devastated islands, reports AFP. Macron's visit to the islands of St Martin and St Barts comes almost a week since Hurricane Irma roared over the region…

TEHRAN: Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims marks the "death of the Nobel Peace Prize", Iran's supreme leader said on Tuesday in…

WASHINGTON: She might be finished as a US presidential candidate following her "aching" loss to Donald Trump last November, but Hillary Clinton is not going away quietly, reports AFP. The 2016 Democratic nominee releases her new campaign confessional "What Happened" on Tuesday, coinciding…

London: There is "surprisingly limited" evidence that light drinking during pregnancy poses any risk to the baby, say UK researchers, reports BBC. They reviewed all the available studies done on the topic since the 1950s and found no convincing proof that a drink or two a week is harmful.…

BEIRUT: Separate Russian and US-led coalition air strikes on Tuesday killed 28 civilians in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province, where rival offensives against the Islamic State group are under way, a monitor said, reports AFP. The province lies along Syria's border with Iraq and is seen as…