ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained six more suspects in connection with the attack at Istanbul’s airport that killed at least 44 people.
Anadolu Agency said Friday the suspects were detained in simultaneous raids in the city a day earlier. All six were foreign nationals, the agency said without specifying their nationalities. Anadolu said one of the suspects had been in contact with the suicide bombers, while the five others “acted jointly” with him or her.
Three militants armed with assault rifles and suicide bombs stormed Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on June 28.
LONDON – Britain is lifting a ban on women serving in frontline combat roles in the army, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday.
Cameron, who is attending a NATO conference in Warsaw, Poland, said he had accepted a recommendation from the head of the Army, Gen. Nick Carter, that women should be allowed to serve in ground close-combat roles.
He said the decision would be implemented “as soon as possible.”
Until now, British women have been able to serve as fighter pilots, sailors and submariners but not in infantry or armored corps units whose primary role is close-quarters combat.
BERLIN – Some 222,000 asylum-seekers arrived in Germany in the first half of this year, the government said Friday, reflecting a much-reduced influx after the route through the Balkans was largely blocked and the European Union made a deal with Turkey to cut arrivals by sea.
Last year, nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said he isn’t making any forecast for how many will arrive in 2016, given uncertainty about future developments.
In all, 222,264 people were registered as asylum-seekers between January and June. The numbers declined sharply after 91,671 arrived in January. In June, the figure was 16,335, similar to the previous two months.
Associated Press
