ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency played a role in Iraqi Kurdistan's independence vote, proved by the waving of Israeli flags during celebrations of the overwhelming "yes' vote, reports AFP. Ankara fiercely opposed…

BEIRUT: At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing campaign against…

London: Barack Obama has joined Prince Harry to spring a surprise on the penultimate day of the Invictus Games in Toronto, reports BBC. The former US…

CAPE TOWN: Eleven people were killed in a series of overnight shootings in a Cape Town township, police said Saturday, including four victims shot dead when gunmen opened fire in a bar, reports AFP. Extra police officers were deployed to the Philipi district of Cape Town, a city that suffers from regular…

London: A climber who was killed by falling rocks at Yosemite National Park in California saved his wife's life, his aunt has said, reports BBC. Andrew Foster, 32, from Cardiff, was trapped while his wife, Lucy, 28, was seriously hurt when granite fell from the El Capitan monolith on Wednesday.…

KINSHASA: A military transport plane belonging to the Congolese army crashed near Kinshasa on Saturday, killing "several dozen" people, military and airport sources told AFP, reports AFP. The Antonov transport plane had just taken off and had "several dozen people" on board, an airport…

MUMBAI: India's railways minister Saturday told station managers "to spend whatever is necessary" to ensure passenger safety as the death toll from a stampede on a railway footbridge in Mumbai rose to 23, reports AFP. Railway officials said the accident happened after hundreds of people…

London: Spanish national police have sealed off 1,300 of 2,315 schools in Catalonia designated as polling stations for the banned independence referendum, the government in Madrid says, reports BBC. The move came as the Spanish authorities stepped up their attempts to stop Sunday's referendum. Police…