Demonstrators flooded Istanbul's streets, heeding the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP party. The mass protests, ongoing since top CHP figure Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, are among the biggest against Erdogan.

Tensions along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border are flaring once again, with both sides exchanging blame for the escalation. The decades-old conflict reaches back to the colonial era.

The Turkish president's main political rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, was set to be nominated as his party's presidential candidate. The opposition CHP has called his detention an "attempted coup."