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  Baghdad / AFP Iraqi Kurdish forces have demolished Arab homes and buildings and in some cases entire villages in disputed areas in the country’s north, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region has gained or solidified control over swathes of territory claimed by both it and the federal government in Baghdad in the course of the ...

  Aleppo /AFP Syrian government forces clashed with rebels on the outskirts of eastern Aleppo city on Sunday, a monitor said, after residents received messages from the army giving opposition fighters 24 hours to leave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, and an AFP correspondent in rebel-held east Aleppo reported clashes in the Karam Al-Turab neighbourhood and ...

  Yangon / AFP Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region. Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead ...

  Kathmandu / AFP Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal on Sunday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike. The protesters from the Communist Party of Nepal had called on factories, schools and public transport to shut down across the Himalayan nation as they pressured the government to ...

  New York /AFP President-elect Donald Trump was expected to huddle with advisers at his Manhattan residence on Sunday, plotting next moves after thousands of protesters besieged Trump Tower and marched in other US cities for a fourth day. The demonstrations have become daily affairs following Trump’s upset defeat of rival Hillary Clinton, who blamed FBI director James Comey for ...

  London/ AFP Donald Trump’s US election victory heralds the “building of a new world”, France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Sunday in a BBC television interview that sparked immediate criticism in Britain. Le Pen described the Republican’s win as a “victory of the people against the elite” and said she hoped a similar outcome could be achieved in French ...

  Moscow /AFP Suspects detained by Russian authorities were plotting simultaneous “Paris-style” attacks on Moscow and Saint Petersburg, local media reported on Sunday, the first anniversary of the massacre in the French capital. The FSB security service, the KGB’s successor, announced on Saturday it had detained 10 citizens of Central Asian states who planned “high-profile acts of sabotage and terror” ...

  Brussels / AFP The British and French foreign ministers were to miss special talks with their EU counterparts on Sunday to discuss Donald Trump’s stunning US election win in a sign of divisions over how to deal with the new president. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini summoned the ministers for dinner in Brussels after Republican Trump stormed to ...

  Istanbul / AFP Accusing Brussels of wanting Turkey to abandon its bid to join the EU, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted in an interview published on Sunday he might put the question to a referendum. “The European Union is trying to compel us to withdraw from this (accession) process. If they don’t want us they should be clear ...

  Seoul /AFP South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday they would question President Park Geun-Hye this week over a snowballing corruption scandal involving a close friend that has triggered massive protests calling for her resignation. The scandal centres on Park’s shadowy confidant, Choi Soon-Sil, who is accused of using her ties with the president to strong-arm local firms into donating ...