A migrant is helped by an Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) airman to a waiting ambulance at the Air Wing base outside Valletta in this handout taken September 14, 2014.

About 700 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean in the deadliest weekend

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, GENEVA - More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Monday. In the worst incident, as many as 500 migrants are believed to have died after traffickers...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara February 18, 2014.

Turkey Twitter accounts appear blocked after Erdogan court action

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID,mISTANBUL - Two anonymous Twitter accounts used to release secretly recorded conversations implicating family and associates of Turkey's prime minister and senior government officials in a corruption scandal appeared on Sunday to have been blocked. Twitter last week agreed to comply with a Turkish government request to close some accounts that officials said had breached national security or privacy regulations....