Turkey Detains Chairman of Opposition Newspaper and other top stories.

• Turkey Detains Chairman of Opposition Newspaper

  

  ISTANBUL — Turkey's state-run news agency says the chairman of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily has been detained as he returned from abroad, a week after several senior staff were arrested for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations.Anadolu Agency says police detained Akin Atalay Friday as his flight from Berlin docked at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.Atalay had a standing detention order issued along with other senior staff for allegedly supporting Kurdish militants as well as a movement ..

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• Russia says militants used chemical weapons in Syria

  

  MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military said Friday its officers have found evidence of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants in the northern area of Aleppo where government forces are trying to regain control of areas they recently lost to insurgents.Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that ministry experts have found unexploded ordnance and fragments of munitions containing chlorine and white phosphorus on Aleppo’s southwestern outskirts. Konashenkov said the disc..

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• Japan to supply India with nuclear power equipment, technology

  

  TOKYO Japan and India signed a civilian nuclear accord on Friday, opening the door for Tokyo to supply New Delhi with fuel, equipment and technology for nuclear power production, as India looks to atomic energy to sustain its rapid economic growth.It was the first time Japan, the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, has concluded such a pact with a country that is not signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).The accord stipulates nuclear fuel and equipment provided ca..

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• Donald Trump tells Theresa May: UK is special place

  

  Image copyright Reuters US President-elect Donald Trump has invited Theresa May to visit Washington in a phone call in which both stressed the importance of UK/US relations.Downing St said Mr Trump had spoken of his close connections with the UK while Mrs May congratulated him on his win.Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, said the UK was a "very, very special place for me and for our country". Boris Johnson has urged Mr Trump's critics to stop the "whinge-o-rama" and be "positive about th..

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• Afghan Official: Taliban Attack German Consulate, Killing 6

  

  KABUL, Afghanistan — Germany's consulate in northern Afghanistan was attacked when a suicide car bomber rammed the compound, killing six people and wounding more than 120, Afghan police and the German foreign minister said Friday.Four of the dead — two civilians and two unidentified bodies — were brought to the Balkh hospital, said Dr. Noor Mohammad Faiz. He said 128 people were wounded in the attack.Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said six people had been confirmed dead. He..

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• The Misogyny Apocalypse: Turns out Being White and Male Counts for More Than Intelligence, Grace or Decency

  Photo Credit: Trevor Collens / Shutterstock.com I just keep thinking about that CNN screenshot: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, standing next to his wife Melania while they voted on Tuesday morning, looking over at her with a face that strongly suggested he was making sure she voted in a way that she didn’t have to hear about when they got home. Later in the day when it still seemed impossible that America was racist and sexist enough to vote away its security and its future, ..

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• Report: US Close to Accepting Hundreds of Australia's Refugees

  

  CANBERRA, Australia — The United States and Australia were close to announcing a deal in which the United States would resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific island camps, a newspaper reported on Friday.The U.S. had agreed to accept up to 1,800 refugees held for up to three years at Australia’s expense in camps on the impoverished island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea, The Australian newspaper reported.That could empty the camps which have been condemned by ..

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• Mosul battle: IS hangs bodies of 40 civilians from poles in Iraqi city, UN says

  

  Image copyright Reuters Image caption Bashiqa is one of several towns recaptured as Iraqi forces continue their offensive on Mosul So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them of treason, the United Nations says.Their bodies were then hung from electricity poles in several districts, the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner said, citing sources. A man was also reportedly s..

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• Riot police fill streets as Egypt braces for austerity protests

  

  CAIRO Riot police and armored vehicles filled the otherwise empty streets of central Cairo early on Friday as security forces built up a heavy presence in anticipation of popular protests over deteriorating economic conditions. A little-known group calling itself Movement of the Poor has called for Egyptians to protest on Nov. 11 against deepening austerity. The calls had been made since August, but gained traction on social media last week after Egypt raised fuel prices and floated its curren..

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