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Challenged by US and market crisis, Turkey turns to Europe

Aug 16, 2018

Beset by a weak currency and tension with the US, Turkey reaches out to Europe in an attempt to shore up relations with major trading partners despite testy rhetoric and a stalled bid for EU membership

UN: Libyan militia forces 1,900 people from camp in Tripoli

Aug 14, 2018

UN agency concerned over Libyan militia running 1,900 displaced people out of their refugee camp in Tripoli

Flooding in Sudan kills 23 people, injures 61

Aug 13, 2018

Sudanese medics say at least 23 people have been killed in heavy flooding in the past three weeks

The Latest: France OKs taking 20 migrants from boat in Spain

Aug 9, 2018

The French presidency says France is ready to take in about 20 of the 87 migrants from a rescue boat that docked at a port in southern Spain on Thursday

UN says Libya recovered some 100 bodies of migrants in 2018

Aug 6, 2018

UN refugee agency: Libya's coast guard recovered about 100 bodies of Europe-bound migrants in Mediterranean in 2018

Italy's FM visits Egypt, first since killing of researcher

Aug 5, 2018

Italy's foreign minister says he is pleased to hear from Egypt that it is committed to completing an investigation into the 2016 killing of an Italian graduate student in the capital Cairo with a "concrete result."

UN agency warns of another possible Yemen cholera outbreak

Aug 1, 2018

U.N. children's agency warns of a possible second cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida

Indian police seal shelters for alleged female sexual abuse

Aug 1, 2018

Police in eastern India have sealed a shelter for destitute women amid reports that 11 of the women are missing

The Latest: Toll from attack in Afghan city rises to 15 dead

Jul 31, 2018

An Afghan official says the death toll from an attack on a government compound in the eastern city of Jalalabad has risen to 15

Witnesses: Heavy fighting near Yemen's Hodeida kills dozens

Jul 29, 2018

Yemeni officials and witnesses say heavy fighting between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels along the country's west coast has left dozens dead from both sides