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At least 73 people have been killed in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy, authorities say. The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome, not far from Perugia. Many of the dead were in Accumoli, close to the epicentre, and a short distance away in Amatrice, where three-quarters of ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy, leaving at least six people dead and others trapped under rubble, Italian officials said. The quake hit at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), 76 km (47 miles) southeast of the city of Perugia, at the very shallow depth of 10km (six miles), the USGS said. The Mayor of Amatrice told Italian radio “half the ...

Turkey has bombarded so-called Islamic State (IS) targets in northern Syria amid reports Syrian rebels are to launch an offensive against the group. Artillery positions inside Turkey fired on IS as well as Kurdish YPG militia targets in the towns of Jarablus and Manbij. Some 1,500 Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are thought to be in the Turkish town of Gaziantep waiting ...

Most of the victims of the bombing of a Kurdish wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday were children, media reports say. Twenty-nine victims were under the age of 18, reports said, with one official saying 22 were under the age of 14. The death toll rose to 54 on Monday. The suicide bomber himself was a ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has signalled he may drop his proposal to deport 11 million people who are living illegally in the US. His campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said the mass deportation plan, which was a central plank of his campaign, was yet “to be determined”. Her comments at the weekend came after Mr Trump met with a new ...

The murder of Hande Kader, a transgender woman, has caused an outcry in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul. Turkey remains conservative on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) issues, but on Sunday activists will stage a rare protest in Istanbul, writes Rengin Arslan of BBC Turkish. “Hande was one of the nicest people in the world. She was very calm ...

A blast at an outdoor wedding party in the south Turkish city of Gaziantep has killed at least 30 people and injured 94 more, the authorities say. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said so-called Islamic State (IS) was likely to have carried it out amid reports of a suicide bomber targeting the party. The attack, in an area popular with university ...

Taliban militants have captured a key district in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz, officials say. The fighters attacked from several directions and government troops were forced to retreat to Kunduz city, which briefly fell to the Taliban last year. A lack of ammunition and reinforcements contributed to the fall of Khanabad district, the local authorities said. The Taliban have made ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a direct appeal to African-American voters, saying “What do you have to lose?” Mr Trump told a nearly all-white audience in Michigan that black voters “are living in poverty” and their “schools are no good”. He promised to “produce” for African-Americans where Democrats had failed. “If you keep voting for the same people, ...

Paul Manafort, campaign chairman for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has resigned just two months after taking the helm. Mr Trump confirmed Mr Manafort’s departure in a statement. He first took control of Mr Trump’s campaign after the businessman’s campaign manager was fired in June. Mr Manafort, 67, has come under fire for his ties to Russian interests and former ...