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ANKARA: (Web Desk)- Turkish police investigators have entered and searched the Incirlik air base in the south of the country in connection with the recent failed coup. According to Turkish media on Monday, seven soldiers were arrested after prosecutors and police searched the base, which is jointly used by Turkish …

ANKARA: (Web Desk)- Almost 9,000 Turkish officials have been dismissed from their jobs as Turkey escalates the crackdown following a failed coup attempt. Sources in Turkey’s Interior Ministry said Monday that a total of 8,777 public personnel were discarded from their official positions since the coup against the government was …

North Korea has launched three ballistic missiles just over a week after threatening a physical response to the US’s deployment of a missile system in the South. “The ballistic missiles flight went from 500 kilometers to 600 kilometers, which is a distance far enough to strike all of South Korea …

Four people have been injured after an ax- and knife-wielding teenager went on a bloody rampage on a train in southern Germany. According to German police, three of the victims were severely injured in the Monday night incident, which happened in the Heidingsfeld region of the city of Wurzburg. At …

WASHINGTON: (Web Desk)- Fourteen teenagers in the US state of California have been injured as three armed young men open fire at a crowd of 150 teenagers at a house party, police says. The early Saturday morning incident was described by authorities and witnesses as a drive-by shooting in the …

LONDON: (Web Desk)- The majority of Britons are opposed to a second referendum on membership of the European Union and almost half believe new Prime Minister Theresa May should carry on without calling a general election, according to a poll published on Saturday. A survey by ComRes for the Sunday …

NICE: In a statement carried by a media outlet of the so-called islamic state (IS), the group has claimed the truck attack in Nice, France. IS on Saturday claimed the Tunisian man, who barrelled his truck into a crowd in the French resort city, was a “soldier” of the group. …

WASHINGTON: (Web Desk)- Georgia executed a prisoner by lethal injection on Friday, the first US execution in more than two months, ending a pause that reflected a decline in capital punishment. John Conner, 60, died at 00:29 (0429 GMT) in Jackson, 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, the state’s …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that the uprising was an “act of treason”, and those responsible would pay a heavy price. Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the southwest coast when the coup was launched by a faction in the armed forces, flew into Istanbul before dawn on …

MUZAFFARABAD – Thousands of protesters marched in Azad Kashmir on Friday to denounce recent deadly clashes with Indian security forces. About 4,000 people gathered in Muzaffarabad, some carrying photos of martyred Kashmeri leader Burhan Wani, whose killing last week sparked unrest that killed 32 people – the deadliest clashes in …