Police have detained four protesters who wanted to walk to the venue of the G-20 summit to deliver a letter to world leaders.
The state-run Anadolu Agency says police in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya on Sunday blocked the four protesters — belonging to left-wing groups opposed to the G-20 — from marching toward the secluded seaside resort of Belek, where the leaders are meeting.
Full Story
Even as airlines operated a normal schedule of flights into and out of Paris on Saturday, travelers with future plans to visit the French capital reconsidered their options after a series of terror attacks. Some quickly canceled their tickets, a worrisome sign for the travel and tourism industries.
Joe Nardozzi, a 31-year-old New York investment banker, and his wife won't be taking the wedding-anniversary trip they planned later this month.
Full Story
Iran will receive the bulk of the S-300 air defense missile systems it ordered from Russia by the end of the year, Tehran's defense minister has said.
"We signed a contract with Russia. It is being done. We will acquire a large portion of the systems by the end of this year," Hossein Dehghan told state television late Tuesday.
Full Story
Russia has circulated a document on ending the nearly five-year-old Syrian conflict that calls for drafting a new constitution in up to 18 months that would be put to a popular referendum and be followed by an early presidential election.
The document, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, makes no mention of Syrian President Bashar Assad stepping down during the transition — a key opposition demand. It only mentions that "the president of Syria will not chair the constitutional commission."
Full Story
Authorities in Dubai are holding a Yemeni member of the emirate's police force on suspicion of murder after he shot and killed another officer inside a police station.
Dubai police confirmed the Sunday shooting in postings to official social media accounts on Monday. Neither officer was identified, but police say the victim was also Yemeni.
Full Story
Caitlyn Jenner took the stage at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards and told an admiring crowd that the six months since she came out as a woman have been "the most eye-opening experience of my life."
Jenner, one of a group of honorees that included actress Reese Witherspoon, ballerina Misty Copeland, designer Victoria Beckham, the victorious U.S. women's soccer team, and a group of women from Charleston, South Carolina, who suffered great loss in the June church shooting there, also said she believes she was put on Earth to tell her story and perhaps make a difference in the world.
Full Story
Pope Francis has denounced the "cancer" of abusive labor practices during a visit to the Italian industrial city of Prato, where a 2013 garment factory fire killed seven Chinese workers.
Francis recalled the "tragedy" of the deaths in off-the-cuff comments Tuesday to Prato residents gathered in the piazza outside the city's cathedral. Prato is home to some 40,000 Chinese immigrants, nearly half of them in Italy illegally, and is a major producer of cheap clothes.
Full Story
More than 400,000 Syrian children living in Turkey are not in school, largely because of financial hardship, a plight which could push more refugees into making a desperate journey to Europe or even returning to their war-torn homeland, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday.
It called on the international community and Turkey to act urgently to ensure Syrians who have fled the four-and-a-half year conflict have greater access to education.
Full Story
Low global oil prices will have a "correction" in 2016, but it won't be solely OPEC that helps to raise prices that have dropped over 50 percent, the United Arab Emirates' energy minister said Monday.
The oil-rich Emirates will raise daily production to 3.5 million barrels in the coming years, Minister Suhail Mohamed al-Mazrouei said at the start of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference.
Full Story
France striker Karim Benzema has been charged with conspiracy to blackmail and participating in a criminal group as part of an investigation over a sex tape involving teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
The prosecutor's office says Benzema was charged after being brought before a judge on Thursday at the Versailles court. He faces a maximum prison sentence of five years.
Full Story


