Aden / AFP Yemeni authorities have arrested eight suspected IS group extremists implicated in a spate of attacks targeting security personnel in second city Aden this year, police said. Police in the southern port city, headquarters of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, also seized silenced pistols and letters from IS leaders in Iraq and Syria, a statement said late on …

  Chennai / AFP Tens of thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of the Indian politician Jayalalithaa Jayaram on Tuesday in an emotional farewell to the former movie star who enjoyed almost god-like status in the state of Tamil Nadu. The 68-year-old Jayalalithaa, described by her party as the Iron Lady of India, died late Monday after suffering a massive …

  Ankara/ AFP Turkish police on Tuesday detained a former advisor to the main opposition party leader over alleged links to the group led by the US-based Islamic preacher blamed for the July failed coup, state media reported. Fatih Gursul was a former science, technology and communications advisor to the secular main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, …