Istanbul / AFP Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for almost 150 teachers who allegedly used an encrypted messaging app employed by followers of the US-based Muslim preacher authorities blame for the botched coup bid, state media said. Police in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri launched an operation with 400 officers in a bid to detain 147 ...

  Paris /AFP Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday, unveiling plans to take hundreds of people off the streets as France struggles to accommodate migrants. The emergency shelter, which will have an initial capacity of 400 and be solely for men, will be housed on an old railway site in the ...

  Warsaw / AFP Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday that an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had suggested delaying a proposed meeting between the two leaders in Moscow on Friday. “Netanyahu’s representative proposed to delay this meeting to a later date. So the meeting will not happen,” Abbas said at a joint press conference in Warsaw ...