VICE News and Reuters

One activist associated with a law firm that specialized in human rights cases got a suspended jail sentence, and a prominent lawyer from the company was released on bail.

The International Organization for Migration says deaths already total over 4,000 this year — 26 percent higher than in 2015 and increasingly concentrated in the Mediterranean.

The militants said in a statement that "dozens" were killed in the blast targeting foreigners, but the claim is still unconfirmed.

The radical Islamist group says it carried out an assault on the headquarters of Somalia's Criminal Investigation Department in Mogadishu.

The attack came as the prime minister's office finally forbade Iraqi security forces from using fraudulent devices that had been marketed as bomb detectors and were employed extensively at checkpoints around the country.

The rally came as rights group Amnesty International said it had received credible evidence of detainees being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, since the coup attempt.

The four women, aged 18 to 30, are suspected of plotting a separate attack. Investigators say they found large quantities of grenade-making materials, crude bombs and jihadi books in a house being rented by the women.

The Islamic State has ignored an offer for its fighters to withdraw safely from the Syrian city of Manbij, and clashes with US-backed forces continued after the offer expired.

The decree comes after Erdogan declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, saying it would enable authorities to swiftly and effectively root out supporters of the July 15 coup attempt.

The German-Iranian 18-year-old opened fire at a mall on Friday, and police say the attack has no connection to the Islamic State group.

New research reveals that the number of great white sharks off the coast of South Africa is declining rapidly, with the current population potentially too low to revive.

German police say they found a hand-painted Islamic State flag in the Afghan refugee's room, but authorities have not found any evidence indicating he was a member of an Islamist network.