Earlier, the Istanbul governor’s office said 52 people were still in the hospital – 20 of them in intensive care – four days after the devastating airport attack.
Among the 18 dead was a policeman, who drowned when angry protesters pushed an armored vehicle into a river in the southern district of Sangam on Sunday, a police officer told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
The Thursday night attack follows the truck bombing of a shopping district in the capital, Baghdad, on Sunday, in which at least 292 people died. Prime Minister’s Haider Al Abdi’s office confirmed yesterday, hours after another attack to the north left 40 dead.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the bombings in Qatif and Jeddah were consistent with the modus operandi of Islamic State in its targeting of Shia Muslims and U.S. representatives, as well as Saudi interests.
The South China Sea arbitration unilaterally initiated by the Philippines will set a “serious, wrong, and bad example” if it is allowed to go through, Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming said.
Wiesel, 87, died at his New York City home on Saturday. Although he was an American citizen who never resided in Israel, news of his death sparked an outpouring of grief among Israelis who consider him one of their own. “At the same time anti-Semitism, Holocaust revisionism...
Republicans signaled they’re not done with election-year investigations of Hillary Clinton and whether she lied to Congress, even after a House committee signed off Friday on its report into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. However, Comey said today that the...
London’s former mayor “ducked” crucial decisions and failed to show the qualities needed to take over from David Cameron, according to the Justice Secretary.
A police constable was killed in the explosion. A female bystander was also killed in the crossfire. This is the second terrorist attack in a week occurring in Bangladesh.
On Sunday, Francis turned his attention to religious affairs, participating in an open-air liturgy on the grounds of the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Etchmiadzin, the seat of the Oriental Orthodox church here.
Sterling, who was also black, was shot after a scuffle with officers outside a convenience store. According to the Star Tribune, 32-year-old Castile informed Yanez that he was carrying a licensed fire arm before he reached into his back pocket to get his ID. But many details...