CASIGURAN – Homes have been flattened, power lines toppled, and thousands of people have fled their homes as Typhoon Koppu swept into the northern Philippines. The huge, slow-moving typhoon made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the island of Luzon on Sunday morning. Koppu brought winds of close to 200km/h (124mph) and whipped up…
ANKARA – EU states have backed an action plan with Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe. Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey. The leaders agreed to speed up visa liberalisation talks for Turks if Ankara…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican security officials say they have captured a man they accuse of being behind a crime wave in western Jalisco state. Daniel Quintero Riestra was arrested on a boat just off Isla Mujeres, a popular tourist spot near Cancun. Mr Quintero has been charged with kidnapping and murder. Prosecutors believe he is…
LAS VEGAS – Hillary Clinton stopped at a union rally outside Donald Trump’s hotel on the Strip here, taunting the Republican front-runner on the eve of the first Democratic presidential debate. “Some people think Trump is entertaining, but it is not entertaining to insult immigrants and women,” Clinton said. Clinton joined about 500 members of…
ANKARA – Thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Turkey’s capital, Ankara, to pay tribute to the victims of bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people. Brief scuffles broke out between the crowd and the police after some mourners tried to lay carnations at the site of the bombings. There is anger…
ZURICH – Fifa president Sepp Blatter is appealing against his 90-day ban from football’s world governing body. The 79-year-old Swiss has been suspended from all duties while Fifa’s ethics committee investigates corruption claims against its leader. He was suspended on Thursday along with secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini. Platini will contest the…
ZURICH – Fifa has provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days. The punishments were handed out by the ethics committee of football’s world governing body, which is investigating the three over corruption allegations. It also banned ex-Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-joon for six years. Issa Hayatou,…
ZURICH – Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou and Spain’s Angel Maria Villar are in line to take over as interim heads of soccer’s world and European governing bodies following the suspension on Thursday of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. In the latest twist in the corruption scandal engulfing the sport, Blatter and Platini were both handed 90-day…
HARARE – Four people have been detained in Sydney, Australia, in relation to the killing of police worker Curtis Cheng. More than 200 officers swooped on several properties early on Wednesday, police said, arresting males aged between 16 and 22. A fifth man was held over unrelated fraud charges. Mr Cheng, 58, was shot dead…
DAMASCUS – Turkey has warned the EU that millions more refugees could flee Syria as the civil war intensifies, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. He said Russian and Iranian engagement in Syria was making a victory for President Bashar al-Assad more likely. According to Turkish estimates, it could mean another three million refugees…
