President: 'Let's be as one ... all be Turkey together'

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday the nation had voted for stability in a legislative election that saw the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, win almost 50 percent of the vote, and said the world should respect the result.

Governor takes relocation dispute closer to High Court

Okinawan Governor Takeshi Onaga was scheduled to appeal to a third-party panel on Monday to mediate with the central government of Japan in an ongoing dispute regarding the relocation of a controversial US air base within the nation's southernmost prefecture.

Russian airplane 'broke up in the air'

A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up in the air, an investigator said on Sunday, as the bodies of many of the 224 people killed on board were flown home.

UN says a record of 218,000 crossed Mediterranean in Oct

More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October - a monthly record and nearly the same number as in the whole of 2014, the United Nations said on Monday.

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20 years after Rabin's assassination, Israelis worry about bleak future

"Twenty years have passed since (former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak) Rabin was killed, and things seem to be bleaker than ever," Yaron Yovel said on Saturday night at a rally in a Tel Aviv square remembering Rabin's assassination.

Palestinians clash with soldiers at funerals

Violence broke out on Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron as Palestinians buried five teenagers killed in a wave of attacks and clashes with Israeli forces.

Nation holds election as security fears weigh heavy

Turks began voting on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries in a snap parliamentary election that could profoundly impact the divided country's trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan.

FBI rules out bomb on leader's boat

The FBI has said it found no evidence that an explosion on board the Maldives president's boat was caused by a bomb, a report said, raising questions about his deputy's arrest over the incident.

Rally against latest publisher's murder

Protesters rallied in the Bangladesh capital on Sunday over the latest attacks against secular writers and publishers, accusing the government of failing to halt rising deadly violence blamed on hard line Islamists.

Protesters target border fence after refugee deaths

Protesters clashed with police guarding a border fence in northern Greece on Saturday, following a series of sea accidents that killed dozens of migrants and a warning from authorities that the death toll is likely to rise in coming weeks.

Hotel attacked by extremists, 12 die

Two bombs ripped into a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sunday, and security forces fought Islamist al-Shabaab gunmen who stormed the building and occupied it for hours afterward, police and witnesses said. At least 12 people were killed.