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• Today 13:38 GMT

  Turkey may replace Russia as fuel supplier – Erdogan

  While Russia is a major supplier of oil and gas for Turkey, Ankara may find another seller, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised speech. Turkey seeks to secure deliveries from Qatar and Azerbaijan amid escalated tensions with Russia over its downing of a Russian warplane over Syria. Russia slapped economic sanctions against Turkey in retaliation, but continues to supply fuel according to existing contracts with Turkey.
• 07:53 GMT

  Suspected Islamist, 2 civilians killed in security raid in Lebanon

  A raid targeting a suspected Islamist militant in the town of Deir al Ammar, northeast of Tripoli in Lebanon, took a bad turn and resulted in deaths of two civilians, Reuters reported citing medical and security sources. The suspect also died when he blew himself up. At least 10 people were injured in the raid, including four security troops.
• Yesterday 23:25 GMT

  7.1 quake hits southern Indian Ocean

  A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake was registered at the depth of 10 kilometers in the Southeast Indian Ridge, according to the US Geological Service (USGS). The quake was centered 1,020 kilometers (634 miles) east-north-east of Australia’s Heard Island and the McDonald Islands and 2,961 kilometers southwest of the Australian coast city of Busselton. Initial reports from the Australian Official Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said that there was no tsunami threat for Australia.
• 15:59 GMT

  Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders says Turks ‘will never join EU’

  Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has told Turks “you are not welcome here” in a video that takes aim at Ankara’s hopes of joining the EU, Reuters reported. The most popular right-wing politician in the Netherlands, who is anti-Islam, Wilders has surged in public opinion polls with his call for the closing of national borders in the face of the refugee crisis. In an English-language video posted online on Friday with Turkish subtitles, Wilders told Turks: “Your government is fooling you into believing that one day you will become a member of the EU. Well, forget it.” He went on to say, “You are no Europeans and you will never be. An Islamic state like Turkey does not belong to Europe.”
• 14:52 GMT

  EU states agree system for sharing airline passenger information

  The EU agreed Friday on a system to share airline passenger information, paving the way for closer scrutiny of extremists, AP reported. The decision came after years of trying to balance security needs with privacy rights. EU interior ministers, who were spurred into action by the attacks in Paris, moved to grant law enforcement agencies access to information gathered by airlines. It will include names, travel dates, itinerary, credit cards and contact details. Under the passenger data deal, details would be collected from European carrier flights entering or leaving the EU, as well as from flights between member countries. Charter flights will be included, and all the information will be kept on file for six months. The proposal for a passenger name record agreement was first made in 2007.
• 13:23 GMT

  Georgia revokes ex-President Saakashvili’s citizenship

  Georgian President Georgy Margelashvili signed a decree Friday on revoking citizenship from former leader Mikhail Saakashvili, TASS reported. A decree was signed “on basis of the law ‘On Georgian citizenship’ to revoke the country’s citizenship from Mikhail Saakashvili as he has received citizenship of another country,” the presidential press service said. Saakashvili was president from January 2004. He left Georgia in November 2013, several days before his tenure in office officially ended. The former president then lived in the US and Ukraine. In May this year, he was granted Ukrainian citizenship and was later appointed as governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa Region.