Turkey Detains Brother of Fethullah Gulen, Cleric Accused of Plotting Coup and other top stories.

• Turkey Detains Brother of Fethullah Gulen, Cleric Accused of Plotting Coup

  ISTANBUL — Turkey has detained a brother of Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based cleric whom the government accused of organizing a coup attempt in July and who is now the source of a diplomatic confrontation with the United States.The brother, Kutbettin Gulen, was arrested on Sunday in the western province of Izmir, where he had been staying with relatives, the semiofficial news agency Anadolu reported, adding that he had been sought by the police in connection with membership in an “armed..

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• After Voters Reject Peace Deal With FARC, What's Next For Colombia?

  

  Enlarge this image Presidential guard soldiers keep watch during the referendum on a peace accord to end the five-decade-long guerrilla war between the FARC and the state on Sunday in Bogota, Colombia. Colombian voters rejected the peace deal in a very close vote. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images ..

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• Hungary's Orban Seen Staying on Migrant Issue After EU Vote

  

  BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's prime minister is expected to keep migration as a key issue on his agenda after low turnout invalidated a referendum against EU refugee quotas that nonetheless received nearly unanimous backing for the government's position, analysts said Monday.Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party will use voters' aversion to migrants to distract from unpleasant matters like corruption and difficulties in the health sector, according to Csaba Toth, strategic director ..

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• Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising by NY attorney general's office

  

  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump takes the stage Aug. 20 for a campaign event at Fredericksburg Expo Center in Fredericksburg, Va. (Molly Riley/AFP/Getty Images) The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday. James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’..

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• At least 2 killed as Hurricane Matthew starts lashing Haiti, Jamaica

  

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –  Heavy rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew drenched Jamaica and Haiti on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm approached the two countries. Two deaths were reported in Haiti, bringing the total for the storm to at least four. Matthew had sustained winds of 140 mph as it moved north, up from 130 mph earlier in the day. The center was expected to pass just east of Jamaica and near or over the southwester..

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• Pakistan and India are exchanging artillery fire after militants attacked an Indian army base

  

  An Indian army soldier stands guard on a road on the outskirts of Srinagar, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Ismail SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least six militants attacked an Indian army camp in Kashmir on Sunday night, killing one border guard, Indian officials said, two weeks after a similar attack killed 19 soldiers and ratcheted up tension between India and Pakistan. The attack on the camp of India's 46 Rashtriya Rifles in Baramulla, which also houses a unit o..

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• Ethiopia has a lot riding on its new, Chinese-built railroad to the sea

  

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethi­o­pia — The sleek, white train glides through the hilly Ethiopian countryside, the first to travel this route in nearly a decade. The contrast is stark as the new, Chinese-made electric train passes horse-drawn carriages, oxen hauling plows and crowds of curious village children. But soon it crosses over a gleaming six-lane expressway and snakes past a row of newly erected wind turbines — all Chinese-built and, like the train, part of Ethiopia’s ongoing effort to remake itsel..

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• Europe|Britain, Seeking to Mitigate 'Brexit' Turbulence, Hints at Economic Shift

  

  Photo Philip Hammond, the British chancellor of the Exchequer, at the International Convention Center in Birmingham, England, on Monday. Credit Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BIRMINGHAM, England — Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, on Monday promised investment in infrastructure projects and pledged to step in to mitigate “turbulence” resulting from the country’s decision to withdraw from the European Union, a significant shift in Bri..

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• Putin suspends nuclear pact, raising stakes in row with Washington

  

  MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.Starting in the last years of the Cold War, Russia and the United States signed a series of accords to reduce the size of their nuclear arsenals, agreements that have so far survived intact despite a souring of U.S.-Russian relations under..

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