Ukraine said it had detained a top ally of ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday, accusing him of causing harm to the "territorial integrity" of the crisis-hit country.

Law enforcement authorities detained Oleksandr Yefremov accusing him of "infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine," Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko wrote on Facebook.

Beijing said it has detained and questioned a Japanese national working on cultural exchange projects for allegedly "endangering China's national security", Japanese newspapers reported Saturday.

The man, who has been missing since mid-July, was identified by the Nikkei business daily as the Japanese head of an organisation working to improve ties between the two rivals.

A man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan's central Punjab province, police said Saturday, in the latest case of so-called "honor" killings in the country.

A Canadian citizen was one of the masterminds behind a mass killing at a Dhaka cafe, Bangladesh police said Saturday, after new information came to light following a raid on an extremist hideout.

Dozens of people have been hospitalized and 26 arrested following clashes between police and protesters in Yerevan, Armenian authorities said Saturday.

At least 14 people were killed Saturday when a vehicle carrying wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floodwater and flung into a gorge, an official said.

Eight Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants in the country's restive southeast, the army said Saturday, raising the toll from the deadliest such attack on the military since the failed coup.

The soldiers were performing a security check when they were attacked by militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Hakkari province on the road near Cukurca late Friday.

Belgian police arrested two men "suspected of planning an attack" in Belgium following raids late Friday ordered by an anti-terror judge, federal prosecutors said on Saturday.

Belgium has remained on high alert following deadly March bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in Brussels and a wave of deadly attacks in the last month in France and Germany, some of them claimed by IS.

Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir near the disputed territory's de facto border with Pakistan, the Indian army said Saturday.

Colonel N. N. Joshi said the firefight occurred in Naugam sector, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest of the main city of Srinagar, after soldiers intercepted the militants attempting to infiltrate the territory from Pakistan.

Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines' most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.