INTERNATIONAL

A former Turkish air force commander has confessed to planning last week’s attempted military coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reports. Gen Akin Ozturk was quoted as having told interrogators that he “acted with intention to stage a coup”. Photographs of the general published by Anadolu appeared to show several injuries to his head and upper body. The general had ...

President Obama has called for restraint after three police officers were shot dead in the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. The gunman, Gavin Long, an African-American who had served for five years in the Marines, was also killed. He had posted videos on the internet complaining about police treatment of African-Americans. Tensions in Baton Rouge have been high since ...

Turkey has arrested 6,000 people after a failed coup, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing to purge state bodies of the “virus” that caused the revolt. At a funeral for one of the 265 victims, Mr Erdogan repeated an accusation that US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen was behind the plot. Mr Gulen strongly denies any involvement. High-ranking military officers are ...

The US has warned Turkey against “public insinuations” of American involvement in a failed military coup, saying such claims are “utterly false and harmful” to their relations. US Secretary of State John Kerry was speaking after Turkey’s labour minister suggested the US was behind the coup. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the US to extradite US-based Turkish ...

Air strikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 28 people, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The attacks, reportedly by Syrian or Russian warplanes, were on rebel-held areas in the east of the city. A correspondent for the French news agency AFP who is in Aleppo says barrel bombs were dropped on ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flown in to Istanbul, after an army group said it took over the country. He was seen surrounded by cheering supporters, saying in a live TV speech that the coup attempt was an “act of treason” and the army must be cleansed. Sixty people died during overnight clashes, many of them civilians, and 754 ...

The Brazilian government has met to reassess security measures ahead of next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The review follows the attack in the French city of Nice on 14 July which left at least 84 people dead. The government said that the measures may make attending the games less comfortable for visitors but they would result in ...

An Indian man who bought one of the world’s most expensive shirts made entirely of gold has been allegedly battered to death, police said. Datta Phuge shot into the global limelight in 2013 when he bought a shirt made with more than 3kg of gold and worth $250,000 (£186,943). A money lender based in western Pune, Mr Phuge was called ...

Fifty people injured in the Bastille Day attack in Nice are in a critical condition “between life and death”, President Francois Hollande has said. At least 84 people died, including more than 10 children, after a lorry crushed them along 2km (1.2 miles) of the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday. The driver, named by sources as French-Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, ...

A lorry has driven into a crowd in Nice, southern France, leaving at least 84 people dead in what President Francois Hollande called a terror attack. Summary A lorry has ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice At least 84 people are dead, including many children, the interior ministry says A further ...