ANKARA/ AP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday directed fresh verbal attacks at the Netherlands amid their growing diplomatic spat, holding the country responsible for Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II. In a televised speech, Erdogan referred to the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, in 1995, and blamed a ...

  BRUSSELS / AP European Union lawmakers have voted to toughen the bloc’s gun laws and close loopholes exploited by attackers in France. The lawmakers passed the rules on Tuesday in a 491-178 vote, with 28 abstentions. It will force EU countries to beef up laws on certain arms that fire blanks so they can’t be easily converted to use ...

  NEW DELHI / AP Police say assailants have shot and hacked to death a Sufi spiritual leader and his adopted daughter in northern Bangladesh. Local police chief Hamidul Alam said on Tuesday the bodies of Farhad Hossain Chowdhury and his daughter, Rupali Begum, were recovered late Monday from a shrine Chowdhury ran in Dinajpur district. Alam said police are ...