Turkish forces hit 181 militant targets in Syria operation: defense ministry
The Turkish army has hit a total of 181 militant targets with air strikes and howitzers since the start of operation into northeast Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said on Wednesday.
UK’s Labour to back November 26 election if Brexit not delivered in October: Sun
Britain’s opposition Labour Party will back a general election on Nov. 26 if Prime Minister Boris Johnson fails in his bid to deliver Brexit by the end of this month, the Sun newspaper said on Wednesday, without citing any sources.
Dozens caged and shackled in Trinidad drug rehab center, police say
Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in cages in a Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitation center run by a religious group for ex-prisoners and drug users, where some were tortured and held for years, police said.
U.S. senators release outline for proposed sanctions on Turkey
Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen on Wednesday unveiled an outline for proposed sanctions on Turkey, including targeting the U.S. assets of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and imposing visa restrictions….
The minivan-driving fiscal conservative who could beat Canada’s Trudeau
Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who has a chance of defeating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oct. 21 election, is running as a fiscally prudent, minivan-driving dad whom Canadians can count on to rescue the country from the tax-and-sp…
Ecuadorean protesters raise heat on defiant Moreno
Masked youths battled Ecuadorean security forces during indigenous-led protests and a national strike on Wednesday as President Lenin Moreno stuck by austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.
UK PM Johnson urges Trump to reconsider U.S. crash case stance
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reconsider a decision to let a U.S. diplomat’s wife use diplomatic immunity after she was involved in a fatal car crash in England and then left the country.
Turkey launches ground assault on Syria’s Kurds; Republicans turn on Trump
Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before launching a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.
Gunman kills two in livestreamed attack at German synagogue
A gunman who denounced Jews opened fire outside a German synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and killed two people as he livestreamed his attack.
Trump says he will wipe out Turkey’s economy if it wipes out the Syrian Kurds
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would devastate Turkey’s economy if Ankara’s incursion in Syria wipes out the Kurdish population there.
