Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued arrest warrants for 48 Kurdish militants, including the leader of a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said Tuesday that the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the northeastern part of the country and triggered moderate tsunamis was an aftershock of the devastating 2011 quake.
Lebanon's newly elected president is attending a military parade in central Beirut, the first such celebration in two years, to mark the country's Independence Day.
Greece's government and its bailout creditors remain apart in talks about new reforms, but Athens says a deal can still be achieved by early next month.
China says it is caring for about 3,000 refugees who have entered its territory to escape fighting in Myanmar between the government and ethnic rebels.
Turkey's government has dismissed a further 15,000 people from the military, police and the civil service as part of an ongoing investigation into the failed military coup in July.
Local leaders say Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds more people to flee as they loot and burn the area where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014.
A Libyan anti-terrorism security force says authorities have arrested a wife of the one-eyed militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, once considered the most dangerous man in the Sahara and formerly a top al-Qaida figure in North Africa.
Spanish police say they have arrested the suspected financial mastermind of the alleged scheme of kickbacks involving Brazil's the state oil company Petrobras, construction companies and Brazilian politicians.
The tsunami alerts that followed the earthquake in northeastern Japan brought to mind people's painful memories of the devastating quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in March 2011.
Nigel Farage, the interim leader of the U.K. Independence Party, says he is "flattered" by Donald Trump's suggestion that he become Britain's ambassador to the United States.
A year and a half after a colossal earthquake destroyed hundreds of treasured historic sites across this mountain nation, Nepal on Tuesday celebrated the restoration of the first major one to be rebuilt — an iconic Buddhist monument topped in gold that towers above Kathmandu.
An Egyptian appeals court has struck down a life sentence and ordered the retrial of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on charges of conspiring with foreign militant groups, including the Palestinian Hamas.
The chiefs of the Philippine armed forces and the United States Pacific Command say the two countries' military ties remain robust, with both sides committed to their alliance and cooperation on maritime security, counterterrorism and humanitarian aid.