INTERNATIONAL

Iraq’s Prime Minister has ordered the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in Baghdad on Saturday. Haider al-Abadi said those who caused damage and attacked police should be brought to justice. The demonstrators, supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, were angered by delays in approving a new cabinet. They are now camped out near parliament, demanding a change ...

At least one person has died and 14 were injured by an explosion near the main police station in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, officials say. The blast hit the southern city, 10km (six miles) from the Syrian border, at about 09:30 local time (06:30 GMT). CNN Turk reported that the blast was heard several kilometres away. Turkey has been ...

A mosque under refurbishment has collapsed in Somalia, killing at least 15 people and injuring 40. It happened during Friday prayers as the building, in the capital Mogadishu, was packed with worshippers. Hundreds of people are reported to have been inside the building when it collapsed and some are still believed to be trapped under the rubble. An engineer on ...

Rescuers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi are searching for people feared trapped after the collapse of a residential building in heavy rain. At least 10 people are known to have died, and 121 people rescued, including a baby on Saturday morning. The Red Cross criticised “chaotic scenes” as rescuers arrived. It is unclear how many people are trapped. There are ...

North Korea has sentenced a US man to 10 years of hard labour for spying. Kim Dong-chul, a 62-year-old naturalised US citizen born in South Korea, was arrested last October. Kim had made an apparent confession in Pyongyang last month in front of reporters, saying he was paid by South Korean intelligence officers. The US has previously accused North Korea ...

A passenger plane thought to have been struck as it approached Heathrow airport was probably not hit by a drone after all, the government says. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told MPs it was now thought what happened “was not a drone incident”. Air accident investigators said they had not ruled out a drone but had no evidence to support the ...

A suicide bomber has blown themselves up in the western Turkish city of Bursa, killing one person and injuring 10 others , local media say. The attack took place near the city’s 14th century Grand Mosque, a symbol of the city, reports said. The governor of Bursa said the attacker was a suspected female suicide bomber. Turkey has been hit ...

Donald Trump has won presidential primaries in all five US states that voted on Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton triumphed in four out of five. Mr Trump called himself the Republican “presumptive nominee” after victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The results bring him closer to the number of delegates he needs before the party’s national convention in ...

Ninety-six football fans who died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, the inquests have concluded. The jury found match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield was “responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence” due to a breach of his duty of care. Police errors also added to a dangerous situation at the FA Cup ...

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the killing of a Canadian hostage kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Philippines. John Ridsdel, 68, was taken from a tourist resort with three others by the Abu Sayyaf group in September 2015. In November, the Islamist militants released a video showing Mr Ridsdel and three other captives, and demanded a ransom ...