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Ankara, Turkey | AFP | The Turkish authorities will disband the elite presidential guard after detaining almost 300 of its members in the wake of the failed coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday. “There will no longer be a presidential guard, there is no purpose, there is no …

Philadelphia, United States | AFP | US Democrats scrambled Sunday to contain damaging revelations of an insider effort to hobble Bernie Sanders’s White House campaign that threatened an uneasy truce on the eve of the party’s convention. Democrats converge Monday on Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love”, to elevate Hillary …

Berlin, Germany | AFP | German police are working on the assumption that Sunday’s machete attack by a Syrian asylum-seeker that left one woman dead and two people injured in the city of Reutlingen was a “crime of passion”, DPA news agency reported. “When a man and woman have an …

Munich, Germany | AFP | A teenage German-Iranian gunman who killed nine people in a shooting spree at a busy Munich shopping centre and then committed suicide had likely acted alone, German police said Saturday. The third attack on civilians in Europe in just over a week sent panicked shoppers …

Munich, Germany | AFP | At least six people were believed to have been killed on Friday in a shooting rampage at a Munich shopping centre, with the attackers still believed to be at large. Here is what we know: What happened? The shooters opened fire at a McDonald’s restaurant …

Washington, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton will be anointed her party’s presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention next week. But she still has a major announcement to make before the event: her choice of running mate. Clinton is expected to reveal her vice presidential pick by Saturday, …

Oaxaca, Mexico | AFP | Gunmen burst into a musician’s home in southern Mexico before dawn on Thursday, decapitated him and killed his wife and son, police said. The armed group entered the family’s home in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, at 2:30 am and killed Victor Sanchez, 40, the singer of …

Hillary Clinton on Friday tapped Tim Kaine, a popular Spanish-speaking senator from the swing state of Virginia, to be her running mate in the White House showdown against Donald Trump. The pick comes three days before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where Clinton — and now …

Tayyip Erdogan  declares a three-month state of emergency emergency in Turkey in order to hunt down all those deemed to be behind an attempted coup. Ankara, Turkey | AFP | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday told French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault “to mind his own business” after he warned …

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Europe is at major risk of so-called “lone-wolf” terror attacks, its policing agency said Wednesday, with the latest incidents showing “how difficult it is to detect and disrupt suspects”. Recent incidents including Monday’s attack on a German train and last week’s carnage in Nice …