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Former Cabinet Minister Likens Russia To Nazis On Bombing Aleppo
A former cabinet minister has likened Russian bombing in Syria to Nazi attacks in Spain in the 1930s ahead of an emergency Commons debate on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo.
Andrew Mitchell accused Russia of "shredding" international law and committing a war crime by attacking a UN relief convoy last month. He compared it to the destruction of the Basque city of Guernica by fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Russia says it is targeting terrorists.
The northern city of Aleppo has become a key battleground in Syria's bloody five-year civil war.
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State Of Emergency Declared In Ethiopia After Protests
Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency following months of anti-government protests by members of the country's two largest ethnic groups.
The Oromo and the Amhara make up about 60% of the population. They complain power is held by a tiny Tigrean elite.
Violence has intensified since last Sunday when at least 55 people were killed in clashes between police and protesters at an Oromo festival. Hundreds have died in months of protests, human rights groups say. Tens of thousands have also been detained, they say.
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Car Bomb In South East Turkey Kills 18 At Checkpoint
A car bomb attack by Kurdish militants on a checkpoint in south-east Turkey has killed 10 soldiers and eight civilians, Turkish officials say.
The attack in Durak came as soldiers had stopped a car for inspection. A statement said 26 people were wounded in the blast, 10 of them soldiers. No group has admitted the attack.
Turkey has been fighting a Kurdish insurgency for decades and fears Kurdish gains in neighbouring Syria will fuel Kurdish separatism at home.
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Terror Suspect Jaber Al-Bakr Captured By German Police
After a two-day manhunt, German police have captured a Syrian man believed to have been planning a jihadist bomb attack.
Jaber al-Bakr, who arrived in Germany as a refugee, was detained in a flat in the eastern city of Leipzig in the early hours of Monday. He had sought help from another Syrian, who had alerted police and tied him up, reports say.
The hunt began after police found explosives at Mr al-Bakr's flat. In the initial raid in the eastern town of Chemnitz early on Saturday, Mr al-Bakr, 22, evaded capture as officers fired a warning shot in a botched attempt to stop him.
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Yahoo Scrutinize Users Emails For FBI To Find Links To Terror Organisations
Yahoo scanned its users' incoming emails for an unusual string of characters that had been linked to a terrorist organisation, according to a fresh report about the matter.
The New York Times says flagged messages were made available to the FBI, but the scans have now stopped. It adds that the tech company adapted one of its spam and child-abuse-image filters to carry out the task.
The details build on an earlier report by the news agency Reuters.
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Man And Teenager Charged With Shooting Of 15 Year Old
A man and a teenager have been charged after the shooting of a 15-year-old boy riding on the back of a motorcycle.
The boy was left with a "serious head wound" in the attack on Hewitt Avenue, Sunderland on Wednesday evening.
Steven Thompson, 39, from the same street, has been charged with attempted murder, two firearms offences and perverting the course of justice. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with possessing a firearm and perverting the course of justice. He lives in the Sunderland area but cannot be identified because of his age.
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Russian Su-27 Fighter Jets Monitored By Finland After Airspace Violation
Finland's Defence Ministry says it has scrambled jets twice in the past 24 hours to monitor suspected airspace violations by Russian fighters.
A Russian Su-27 fighter was detected in the Gulf of Finland south of Porvoo late on Thursday, the ministry said.
Another Russian Su-27 was detected on a suspicious flight there earlier. "Russian military aviation over the Baltic Sea has been intense," it said.
Finland is not in Nato but co-operates closely with the 28-nation alliance. Porvoo lies just east of Helsinki, and is 140km (87 miles) from the Russian border.
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NSA Contractor Arrested On Suspicion Of Taking Top Secret Files
A National Security Agency contractor has been arrested, accused of taking top secret information, officials say.
Harold Thomas Martin III is charged with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials. The 51-year-old had a top secret national security clearance and faces 10 years in prison.
Mr Martin's lawyer said there was no evidence he had betrayed the US, a country he very much loved.
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Six 'Christians' Killed In Kenya By al-shabab Militants
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has killed six Christians in north-eastern Kenya in an attack aimed at forcing them out of the region.
The grenade and gun attack was launched on a residential block in Mandera town when people were sleeping, police said. It was the latest in a spate of deadly attacks targeting Christians in the mainly Muslim region.
In December 2014, al-Shabab killed 38 non-Muslims at a quarry after separating them from Muslim workers. A few months earlier, 28 people were killed after Muslim passengers were split up from the other passengers.
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Cardiff Man Appears In Court On Terror Charges
A man has appeared in court on terror charges including storing a computer operating system in a cufflink.
Samata Ullah, 33, of Rennie St, Cardiff, faces six charges including membership of so-called Islamic State. He is accused of giving terrorist training in the use of encryption programs, possessing a missile guidance book and directing terrorism.
Mr Ullah was remanded in custody by Westminster Magistrates Court until 28 October. He will appear at the Old Bailey on that date.
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