Kuwait City / AFP Yemen’s government and Iran-backed rebels have discussed the crucial issues of military withdrawals, the handover of weapons and the restoration of state institutions during peace talks, the UN said on Thursday. Negotiators on Wednesday also debated the logistical details of a release of prisoners and detainees announced a day earlier, UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed ...

  Röszke, Hungary / AFP On the Serbian side of Hungary’s razor-topped border fence, the smell of burning rubbish hangs in the air, clothes hang on trees and the wait to get into the European Union goes on. “We go to those trees over there,” said Amir, 17, one of a seven-strong Afghan family including two children and an exhausted ...

  Ankara, Turkey / AFP Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh for consultations after strongly protesting the execution in the country of a top extremist leader, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-E-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late Tuesday for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war with ...