
INTERVIEWS
British police warn against budget cuts
Several police commissioners have threatened the government with legal action over further budget cuts.

Several police commissioners have threatened the government with legal action over further budget cuts.

The German chancellor urges a pan-European approach to tackle the current refugee crisis in the continent.

London-based Standard Chartered is planning to cut 15,000 jobs after posting third-quarter loss.

The Syrian deputy foreign minister says Damascus opposes the idea of a transitional period.

The US military will continue to operate in the South China Sea, a top US admiral said in Beijing on Tuesday.

Israeli officials take a Palestinian radio based in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) off the air.

US Republican candidate Jeb Bush is running for president to keep the name of his family alive, an American journalist says.

Iran is in talks with foreign companies for an extensive revamp of its oil refineries which are in dire need of upgrade after years of draconian Western sanctions.

A Syrian journalist is killed in a mortar attack carried out by militants near the capital, Damascus.

Swedish police attack activists and evict refugees from a camp in the country’s south.

The US government has eased its sanctions regime against Iran, allowing a broad list of medical supplies for exports to the country.

Turkish police arrest dozens of people with links to the country’s US-based opposition figure Gulen.

UK airports are facing disruption for 3rd day because of thick fog.

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio's support has tripled in a New Hampshire poll of primary voters in the last two months.

The United Nations (UN) warns of a growing number of stateless refugee children in Europe.

Veteran Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi dies of a heart attack in the capital, Baghdad, at the age of 71.

An anti-Taliban tribal elder is killed in a roadside bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwest.

Saudi warplanes cause dozens of casualties by mistakenly bombing Riyadh-allied militants in west-central Yemen.