Turkey's preparations for an offensive in northern Syria have been "completed", the defence ministry said Tuesday, after confusing signals from the US over whether it would allow an operation.
All the symptoms were there but it still took four doctors and several months of waiting before Bharti Kapar's cough and stomach pains were diagnosed as tuberculosis.
An airstrike on Monday killed a doctor and injured two paramedics working in a field hospital in the south of Tripoli, which has been witnessing a deadly armed conflict between the east-based rebel army and the UN-backed government based in the capital.
Hong Kong's under-fire leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday she would not rule out accepting help from mainland China in tackling increasingly violent pro-democracy protests.
French authorities are expected to ask Chile to hand over a man who is wanted on suspicion of murdering a Japanese student in eastern France three years ago.
North Korea said Sunday it has "no intention" to continue nuclear talks unless the United States takes steps to end hostilities, a day after negotiations in Sweden broke down.
