MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At least 14 migrants drowned today after a boat carrying them collided with a coastguard boat off the Turkish coast during a chase.

The incident occurred near Demre, in Antalya province, as the vessel carrying Afghans ignored calls to stop and attempted manoeuvres at high speed to escape the coastguard boats, said Antalya Governor Hulusi Sahin.

JAPAN: The country is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles, with their launchers arriving at an army camp today.

The upgraded Type-12 land-to-ship missiles will be deployed at Camp Kengun in Japan’s south-western Kumamoto prefecture by the end of March, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said, without giving details.

NORTHERN IRELAND: A civil case brought by three IRA bomb victims against former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams opened at the High Court in London today.

The men are seeking a ruling that he is personally liable for decisions to plant car bombs in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996.

Mr Adams has repeatedly denied that he had any “direct or indirect” involvement and that he was ever an IRA member.

BANGLADESH: Inspector General of Police Mohammed Ali Hossain Fakir said today that diplomatic efforts are being made for India to hand over two men suspected of killing a Bangladeshi political activist whose death sparked nationwide protests.

Authorities in India said on Sunday that a special police team had arrested two Bangladesh nationals, Faisal Karim Masud and Alamgir Hossain, during a raid in Bongaon, a city in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal state.