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At least 25 people have been killed and 25 more injured, some critically, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest on a bus in Syria's Idlib province, adjoining Turkey, according to a monitoring network. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the bus was carrying opposition fighters when the blast happened near the Atmeh border crossing. Turkey's CNN Turk television citing local sources reported that the explosion occurred at the entrance of Atmeh refugee camp in Idlib late on Sunday. Turkey sent several ambulances to the scene of the attack; eight injured rebels who were in critical condition were taken to hospitals in Turkey's Hatay province. The rest are being treated in Syrian hospitals, Turkish media reported. Authorities in Hatay said in an official statement on Monday that four of the injured fighters later died in Turkish hospitals. Idlib is a major bastion of the Turkey-backed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule...

Bulgaria’s deportation to Turkey of a supporter of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for last month’s failed coup, sparked an outcry in the EU member state on Thursday. Businessman Abdullah Buyuk, 43, was deported on Wednesday “as a person with invalid documents” after being refused political asylum, Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova told bTV television on Thursday. This sparked outrage in the news media and on social media, with critics charging that Sofia had bowed to Turkish pressure and had failed to follow proper legal or transparent procedures. “It is disgusting that the Bulgarian leadership bends in such a humiliating way for the country and for every free citizen,” former justice minister Hristo Ivanov said on Facebook. The chairman of rights group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Krasimir Kanev, told AFP that the expulsion was “illegal”. Bulgarian media have dug around Buyuk’s case for weeks after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu s...

Bamako – Malian special forces arrested a senior figure from the Ansar Dine jihadist group on Tuesday close to a central military base where he is accused of planning an attack that killed 17 soldiers. "Today, at around 16:00 (16:00 GMT) our special forces captured Mahmoud Barry, alias Abou Yehiya," one of the most senior figures in the group's branch operating in central Mali, an intelligence officer told AFP. Other security sources confirmed the arrest, adding that Barry was the "emir" of Ansar Dine's Macina combat unit and was behind several attacks on Malian security forces since last year. He is suspected of taking part in last week's attack on a military base of Nampala, near the border with Mauritania, that left 17 soldiers dead and another 35 wounded, said a security source. The attackers stormed the site, which has been targeted multiple times since January last year, taking control of it for several hours and making off with militar...

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Eight people, including police officers, were killed and several others wounded in two separate bomb attacks in south eastern Turkey. At least three people, including one police officer, were killed and 30 others, including five police officers, wounded when a handmade explosive was detonated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as a police vehicle was passing in the Kiziltepe district of the southeastern Mardin province on Wednesday, according to Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan. The PKK, also on Wednesday, carried out a separate attack in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province targeting another police vehicle, the government said. READ MORE: How could failed coup affect Kurdish peace process? In Diyarbakir, five civilians were killed and 12 people, including five police officers, were wounded, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency. A bomb-packed car was used in the attack, according to a statement by the provincial governor. Earlier,...

Fires whipped by high winds ravaged swaths of southern France and Portugal on Wednesday, killing at least four people, burning scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands, including tourists. In France, multiple fires formed a column marching toward the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. Hundreds of miles away, a fire swept overnight into Funchal, the capital of Portugal's Madeira Islands, killing three elderly people and leaving more than 300 with minor burns and smoke inhalation. A forest watchman was killed on the mainland during the night when one of more than 100 blazes engulfed the caravan he was sleeping in 150 kilometers (95 miles) north of Lisbon. Two people were reported injured, one seriously, as the fire in southern France moved toward Marseille, firefighters said, and 20 to 25 homes were burned. At least 2,700 hectares (6,670 acres) of land were devastated. Four firefighters were injured, three seriously, battling a separate blaze in the nearby H...

Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. A moment later, on another topic, he emphasised the president's full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama. "In many respects, you know, they honour President Obama," Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "He is the founder of ISIS." He repeated the allegation three times. "He's the founder of ISIS, okay?" he added. "He's the founder. He founded ISIS." Trump has long blamed Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for pursuing Middle East policies that created a power vacuum in Iraq that was exploited by ISIL. He has sharply criticised Obama for announcing that he would pull US troops out of Iraq, a decision that many Obama critics say created the kind of instability i...

Canadian police say they have acted to stop a lone suspect in a “potential terrorist threat”. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) gave no further details on the suspect or the location. Canadian media reported that a police operation had taken place in Strathroy, Ontario, about 225km (140 miles) south-west of Toronto. CBC News reported that a suspect had been killed, but this was not confirmed, reports the BBC. The RCMP statement said it had received “credible information of a potential terrorist threat”. “A suspect was identified and the proper course of action has been taken to ensure that there is no danger to the public’s safety,” it added. “As this is still an unfolding matter and the investigation is still under way, we are not able to provide further comment at this time.”

More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from the Portuguese Island of Madeiras following a wildfire which has stretched into its third day. Three people have been confirmed dead as the wildfire spreads towards the regional capital and tourist destination of Funchal as several homes have been destroyed as firefighters battle to put out the fire. More than 50 people are also believed to be in hospitals for various degrees of burns as one person remains missing. The fires began in the Portuguese mainland on Friday and on the island of Madeira after weeks of high temperatures. Regional President Miguel Albuquerque told newsmen, “The situation is complex but not catastrophic,” as he insisted that the fires have been brought under control in many parts.

Gunfire broke out during protests in Ferguson on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's fatal police shooting. Protesters were seen cowering behind cars as shots were fired at the demonstration in Missouri to mark two years since the unarmed black teen was shot dead by police. A man, named locally as Jacoby Thomas, was also injured in a hit-and-run after a car sped through a group of protesters who were blocking a street. Witnesses say the vehicle hit the young man so hard that he flew into the air. He was rushed to hospital where is condition is unknown. 'A lady came down and hit a protester - knocked the shoes off his feet,' said Sharon Cowan, who was at the scene. 'Hit him, and he rolled and he bounced.' Heather De Mian, who was at the protests, said she screamed when the man was hit. The car sped off without stopping after hitting the protester, according to witnesses. Moments later, shots rang out at the demonstrations. 'Then when the b...

Pakistan was in mourning on Tuesday after an attack targeting lawyers gathered at a hospital in Quetta killed at least 70 people. A Pakistani Taliban faction and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) both claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing. The victims include 55 lawyers and at least two cameramen who had gathered at the Civil Hospital in Balochistan province to pay their final respects to another lawyer, Bilal Anwar Kasi, President of the Balochistan Bar Association. Kasi was killed by gunmen just hours before the attack. Schools, colleges, businesses and government institutions were closed in Balochistan, where the provincial government began a three-day mourning period. To express solidarity with the victims, many of which were lawyers, and their families, Pakistan's Legal Fraternity will observe a country-wide, three-day boycott of courts on a call given by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Pakistan Bar Council. ...

A French court on Monday remanded in custody a 16-year-old girl accused of planning a jihadist attack in a country on edge following a series of brutal terror assaults, a judicial source said. The teenager was charged with "criminal conspiracy with terrorists" and "provocation to committing terrorist acts using online communication", the source said on condition of anonymity. Even at her young age, the "highly radicalised" girl was an administrator of a group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. "She relayed numerous Islamic State group propaganda messages calling for attacks, and she also expressed her own intention of taking action," a source close to the investigation said. The girl, with no criminal record, was taken into custody last Thursday, during an anti-terror sweep in the Paris suburb of Melun. The security forces then raided her family home, but found neither explosives nor firearms there. "At this stage in th...

An Indian court on Monday acquitted Bollywood superstar Salman Khan of killing protected wildlife 18 years ago, ending the latest long-running case against the actor. Khan was convicted in 2006 of hunting rare gazelles while he was shooting a film in the northern state of Rajasthan eight years earlier. He was sentenced to one and five years in jail for two separate cases of shooting the animals, but the actor has filed appeals that have kept him from serving the stints. High Court judge Nirmaljit Kaur cleared the actor in both cases, ruling that the pellets recovered from the animals were not fired from Khan's gun. "The honourable high court has not agreed to the prosecution evidence or its documents in both the cases. Definitely, it's a good thing that an innocent man has received justice," Khan's lawyer Hastimal Saraswat told NDTV. The 50-year-old bachelor was not in court in the northern city of Jodhpur to hear the judgement. Indian courts are o...

At least eight people died Friday in a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in the German city of Munich, with the gunmen still at large, police said. "Sad news, the number of dead has risen to eight," Munich police said on Twitter. A police spokesman later told reporters that the dead body of a man had been found near the shopping centre and investigators were trying to determine whether he was one of the assailants. "The possibility that this was someone involved in the crime is currently being closely examined," he said. A male witness speaking to rolling news channel NTV said he saw one of the gunmen at the mall "dressed as Father Christmas and wearing sunglasses". The account could not be immediately verified by police.

Korean actress Park Shin-hye plans to open a "Shin-hye Center" in Manila to support needy children. According to Park's agency, S.A.L.T. Entertainment, construction will be completed by October. The long-term project aims to help destitute children through educational activities. Park's support for needy children started in May 2011, when she volunteered in Ghana for nine days as a goodwill ambassador of non-profit organization Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI). During the trip, she met Abanna, 5, who had malnutrition. Park played the role of a "mother" during the volunteering and helped the girl and other children take baths, eat healthy food and go to school. The first "Shin-hye Center" was built in Ghana in December 2013. It includes a library and a playground, and provides educational programs. The Philippines center will have similar services. Park stars in popular TV drama "Doctors" on SBS. Source: Koreati...

A Korean man wanted for fraud has hanged himself at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the Philippines, a Korean news outlet said Friday. According to Yonhap News Agency, the man, surnamed Ahn, was found dead about 7:30 p.m. Thursday (local time) in the restroom of the immigration office at the airport. Ahn was awaiting deportation after being caught secretly entering into the Philippines from Taiwan. The Philippines Transportation Ministry said the man, 49, was wanted by Korean police and Interpol for investment fraud. The Korean Embassy in the Philippines is verifying details of the incident through local police. Source: Koreatimes