Fresh clashes left one anti-India protester dead and nearly two dozen injured in India's portion of Kashmir on Tuesday, police said, as a security lockdown marred Eid festivities in the troubled region.

German police on Tuesday arrested three Syrian men accused of being members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, prosecutors said.

Russia said a truce due to take effect in Syria from 1600 GMT Monday would cover the entire country, but Moscow would still strike "terrorist targets".

Britain's former prime minister David Cameron on Monday resigned his seat in the House of Commons, nearly three months after losing an EU referendum in which he had campaigned to stay in the bloc.

Amatrice, the Italian town devastated by last month's deadly earthquake, is suing French weekly Charlie Hebdo for defamation over a series of cartoons about the disaster.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday defended the suspension of 28 mayors over alleged links to Kurdish militants or US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, saying it was a long-overdue move.

Gulf Arab states expressed concern on Monday over a bill passed by the US Congress that would allow relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for compensation.

North Korea is ready to conduct an additional nuclear test at any time, South Korea's Defence Ministry said on Monday, three days after the reclusive North's fifth test drew widespread condemnation.

A car bomb exploded outside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Van on Monday, leaving 27 people wounded, officials said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on Monday at prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday in the town of Daraya, recently surrendered by rebels.

President Barack Obama says the nation will never forget the lives of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks as the United States on Sunday commemorated the 15th anniversary of the attacks with a moment of silence observed in somber remembrance at Ground Zero in New York.

Forces loyal to a Libyan general on Sunday said they had seized two key oil export terminals as a UN-backed unity government struggles to assert its authority over the oil-rich country.

Nobel-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk on Sunday lashed the arrest of a leading journalist and warned Turkey was heading towards "a regime of terror."

Ten soldiers were killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing in a part of southern Yemen where Islamist militant groups are active, a security official said.

Hillary Clinton said Saturday she regretted saying that half of Donald Trump's supporters belong in a "basket of deplorables" - a remark the billionaire Republican slammed as her "worst mistake of the political season."

A man "inspired by" the Islamic state group was Sunday charged with committing an act of terror over a stabbing attack that Australian police called the "new face of terrorism".

North Korea demanded Sunday that the United States recognise it as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state" following its fifth and largest atomic test.

Several thousand people demonstrated Saturday in the southwestern French city of Perpignan to demand their Catalan heritage be spelt out after nationwide territorial reforms.

Syria's government Saturday approved a ceasefire deal brokered by its Russian ally and the US to end fighting in the war-ravaged country, but the main opposition group was more cautious.

President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to remain united in the face of terrorist attacks, in a barely-veiled jab at Republican White House nominee Donald Trump 15 years after 9/11.

European Union's top diplomat Federica Mogherini welcomed the Syria truce deal announced by Russia and the United States on Saturday and called on the United Nations to prepare proposals for political transition talks in Syria.