Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in south-eastern Turkey yesterday after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns in both countries, government officials said.
The US government and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face off today in an extradition hearing in a high-security London courthouse.
Iran's interior ministry said yesterday that voter turnout in last week's parliamentary elections stood at 42.57pc, the lowest in decades, in a possible sign of widespread dissatisfaction with Iran's clerical rulers and the state of the economy amid intense pressure from the United States.
Bernie Sanders scored a commanding victory in Nevada's presidential caucuses, cementing his status as the Democrats' national frontrunner amid escalating tensions over whether he's too liberal to defeat US President Donald Trump.
A satirical Belgian carnival parade decried by Israel's foreign minister as "hateful" went ahead yesterday despite being withdrawn from the United Nation's list of recognised cultural events over accusations of racism and anti-Semitism.
Britain has criticised the European Union over the process of agreeing its negotiating mandate for post-Brexit trade talks, saying the bloc was "hamstrung by indecision and delay" because different members wanted different things.
Berlin is freezing the rents of 1.5 million apartments for the next five years starting yesterday in a controversial move to control the exploding costs that have forced many to move outside Germany's capital city.
