A Turkish court on Thursday freed a prominent journalist but placed under arrest his academic brother, after their detention in the probe into the July 15 attempted putsch sparked an international campaign for their release.

Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and his brother Professor Mehmet Altan were detained on September 10 and were two of the most high-profile figures detained in the controversial crackdown after the botched coup.

Afghanistan Thursday signed a peace agreement with notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for him to make a political comeback despite a history of war crimes and after years in hiding.

Hekmatyar, who heads the now largely dormant Hezb-i-Islami militant group, is the latest in a series of controversial figures that Kabul has sought to reintegrate in the post-Taliban era.

Taiwan's defence ministry has asked Google to blur images of a new development believed to be for military use on a disputed South China Sea island. 

Two days of clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, that pitted the security forces against protesters who demanded President Joseph Kabila's resignation, left at least 32 people dead, police said Wednesday.

A new campaign group on Wednesday called for a U.N. probe into the 1988 massacres in Iran after the release of a decades-old audio tape shed fresh light on the alleged atrocities.

With star-spangled banners, cookies and "Stop Trump" leaflets, U.S. campaigners living in Britain took to the streets of London in a double-decker bus on Wednesday to persuade compatriots to vote.

Two Turkish opposition journalists who were handed jail sentences in a hugely-controversial espionage case earlier this year went on trial again Wednesday over alleged ties to the group accused of planning the July coup, local media reported.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Wednesday he expected his British counterpart Theresa May to begin the formal process of leaving the European Union at the end of January or in early February next year.

Hillary Clinton is revving up her drive to woo young people, a key demographic that is resisting her as she battles Donald Trump tooth and nail for the White House.

The polling numbers are alarming for the Democrat as she seeks to become the first female president of America.

Some 60 schools and universities in eastern Canada were evacuated Wednesday over a series of bomb threats, including one received by police, that appeared to have been bogus.