Turkey has considered closing its embassy in Tripoli because of growing security concerns in the country, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, adding that efforts to evacuate Turkish citizens in Libya were underway. 

Pro-Russian rebels in the east of Ukraine reportedly shot down two fighter jets of Kiev’s military forces, agencies from the country said. Two Su-25 aircraft were shot near the Savur-Mogila memorial, in the Shakhtarsk region near Russia’s border. 

Iraqi lawmakers elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the nation’s new president on Thursday, hours after an attack on a prison convoy killed dozens of people, brutally underscoring the challenges faced by the country’s leaders as they struggle to form a new government.