ISTANBUL (AP) — A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo, officials said Sunday, while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat. The 5-month-old gorilla was discovered in a box on a Turkish Airlines flight from Nigeria to Thailand last month. After a public competition, he […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure, the government said Sunday. The Swedish military also will contribute an ASC 890 surveillance aircraft, the government said in a statement. And

An explosion at a fuel station in Yemen has killed 15 people and left dozens injured. The blast took place on Saturday in the Zaher district in the province of Bayda, the country’s health ministry said. It triggered a large fire and at least 67 people were injured, including 40 who were said to be […]

Top diplomats from regional countries and the West are gathering in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the situation in war-torn Syria, more than a month after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The international gathering began with a meeting between Arab foreign ministers and their Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan

A loaded oil tanker that lost the ability to manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea near the German island of Rügen has been towed to the city harbour of Sassnitz. The stricken tanker Eventin, loaded with 99,000 tons of oil, was being held in place about five kilometres off the coast by two tugboats on Sunday. […]