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.

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Investigators probe deadly crash

International investigators have begun probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board in one of the deadliest Airbus incidents of the past decade.