The FBI has approached the second woman to accuse US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as it begins a fresh inquiry into him. Deborah Ramirez accuses Judge Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her during a drinking game when they were students at Yale University in the 1980s.   He has denied the allegation, describing it as a ...

At least 832 people were killed in the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the national disaster agency says. It added that the affected area was bigger than initially thought.   Many people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in Friday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told a news ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ended a visit to Germany by opening one of Europe’s largest mosques. He said the mosque in Cologne stood as a symbol of peace and thanked the German government for pressing ahead with its construction despite protests.   A major police operation was in place for Mr Erdogan’s visit to Cologne, which has a ...

Catalonia regional authorities say 14 people have been hurt and six arrested after separatists clashed violently with police on Saturday. The regional police force said one of its officers was injured, although it was not immediately clear if the officer was counted among the 14 people who needed medical attention.   Medical authorities say three people were taken to the ...

Photo: Residents carry a body bag containing the body of a tsunami victim in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. Palu, Sept 29 : Indonesian television and other media, citing disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, says the death toll from the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami has jumped to 384. The figure is from the hard-hit city of ...

  Boris Johnson has repeatedly refused to rule out challenging Theresa May for the Tory leadership as he warned of “political and economic disaster” if she stuck by her Brexit strategy. Asked four times by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to rule out a challenge, the ex-foreign secretary said: “My job is to speak up for what I believe in.”  Mrs ...

President Donald Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his nominee for the US Supreme Court. A Senate committee earlier voted to approve Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the top US court.   But a Republican member only backed the move on the understanding that such an inquiry would occur.   As a result, a full Senate ...

Syria’s official news agency says the Nasseeb border crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border has opened and the movement of trucks and transit across the border has begun. SANA, quoting the Syrian Transport Ministry, says the crossing was reopened Saturday.   Syrian troops captured the crossing in July after rebels reached an agreement with Russian mediators to end the violence in ...

Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in recent weeks as Gaza’s Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the border fence. Thousands of Palestinians gathered Friday at five locations along Gaza Strip’s frontier with Israel in response to calls by Hamas, the militant group that has ...

Almost 50 people have been confirmed dead after a strong tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit a coastal Indonesian city on Friday. Waves of up to 2m (6.6ft) high swept through Palu on Sulawesi island.   Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque amongst the buildings damaged.   Last month, a ...