Rescuers in northern Turkey worked on Saturday to free more than a dozen miners still thought to be trapped underground at a coal pit, where a methane blast a day earlier killed at least 28 people ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr
#BREAKING Turkey mine blast death toll rises to at least 40: interior minister
#UPDATE Rescuers on Saturday searched for the last miner missing at a coal mine in northern Turkey, where a methane blast the previous day killed at least 40 people in one of the country's worst industrial accidents in years ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr#Amasra
#UPDATE Rescuers in northern Turkey found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine on Saturday, bringing the death toll from a methane blast the previous day to 41 ▶️ u.afp.com/iwwr#Amasra
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#BREAKING Situation at Iran's Evin prison 'under control' after 'troubles': state media
#BREAKING US says Iran "responsible" for safety of Americans in Evin prison, State Department says
The facility, infamous for the ill-treatment of political prisoners, holds foreign detainees such as French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah and US citizen Siamak Namazi.
State media has reported the situation is "completely under control". u.afp.com/iwSK
#BREAKING UK's Truss appoints centrist Hunt as new finance minister
#UPDATE British PM Liz Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt, a former candidate for the Conservative leadership, as her new finance minister in place of sacked Kwarteng. She is expected to stage a major U-turn on her right-wing economic plan following turmoil on financial markets.
#BREAKING UK's Truss says govt will U-turn and raise corporation tax
#BREAKING Putin says he 'doesn't see the need' for talks with Biden
#BREAKING Putin says Russia has no plans to expand mobilisation for Ukraine conflict
#UPDATE "We should ask him if he's ready to hold such talks with me or not. I don't see the need, to be honest," Putin said Friday about possible talks with #Biden as tensions with Washington soar over a litany of issues including Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
#BREAKING Rape used in Ukraine as part of Russian 'military strategy': UN envoy
#UPDATE Rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Moscow's forces in Ukraine are part of a Russian "military strategy" and a "deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims", UN envoy Pramila Patten told @AFP in an interview
Map showing Russian strikes in Ukraine on October 14 at 0800 GMT #AFPgraphics@AFP