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Seven killed in two PKK attacks in Turkey: Army

  ISTANBUL, TURKEY / AFP Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed six Turkish soldiers and a village guardsman in two separate attacks on Sunday, the army said. Five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on their military vehicle in Hakkari province on the road between the towns of Beyyurdu and Aktutun close to the border with northern ...

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US polls risk becoming Brexit vote II: Hollande

  Bloomberg French President Francois Hollande, who last month endorsed Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race, said the November ballot threatens to play out along similar lines to the U.K.’s European Union referendum. Just as U.K. voters rejected calls from political leaders and institutions to stay in the EU, a similarly anti-establishment sentiment may be brewing in the U.S., ...

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Corbyn defiant as party cracks, joining Tories in UK disarray

  Bloomberg Jeremy Corbyn said he’ll confront a challenge to his U.K. Labour Party leadership head on as the fallout from the referendum to leave the European Union sparks a splintering of his opposition group. Corbyn, 67, has been battered since the June 23 vote. Dozens of his front-bench team have quit, he lost a no-confidence vote by a 172-40 ...

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