A suspected Islamist extremist linked to the kidnapping of several Malaysians in the Philippines, including one that was beheaded last month, was arrested Friday, the military said.

Kadaffy Muktadil is a member of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, which security analysts say is behind dozens of kidnappings in the past two years and has proven increasingly brazen after beheading Malaysian national Bernard Then in November.

Russian prosecutors on Friday declared a U.S.-funded foundation an "undesirable" organization, the fourth entity to be banned under a controversial law targeting foreign groups accused of political meddling in the country. 

The U.S.-Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law (USRF), which promotes private sector development and institution building in Russia, will be banned as its activities "present a threat to the foundations of Russia's constitutional system and state security," Russia's prosecutor general said in a statement. 

The jihadist who beheaded a Chechen man in an Islamic State video is an ethnic Russian from a far northern city, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Friday.

"The supposed killer is identified as a resident of Noyabrsk, an ethnic Russian," Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Chechnya region in Russia's North Caucasus, wrote on Instagram.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, leaders with remarkable similarities who built a new era of cooperation between Turkey and Russia, have suffered a ferocious falling-out that will harm relations for years to come.

The two presidents, who forged a strong friendship in over a decade in power, have traded a slew of insults since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on November 24 on the Syrian border for alleged repeated violations of its airspace.

Eighteen hospital patients died overnight in flood-hit Tamil Nadu, Indian health authorities said Friday, with local media reporting their ventilators stopped working when the power failed.

The private hospital where the intensive care patients were being treated reportedly suffered the power outage late Thursday after days of severe flooding that has already killed hundreds and submerged much of the state capital Chennai.

Prime Minister David Cameron marks 10 sometimes difficult years Sunday as leader of Britain's Conservative party, whose members have come to accept him as an electoral asset despite deep disagreements on issues like Europe.

A pragmatist leading a center-right party with a strong ideological base, the telegenic 49-year-old led the Conservatives to their first clear election win since 1992 in May, earning fresh kudos from the party with a result few predicted.

A female suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was killed Friday in Istanbul in a police operation against militants suspected to be planning suicide attacks, reports said.

Counter-terrorism police raided a home in Istanbul's Sancaktepe district after receiving a tip-off that PKK militants had arrived in Turkey's biggest city to carry out suicide attacks, Dogan news agency said.

A Paris bar where five people were killed in the jihadist attacks became the first to re-open Friday, with customers defiantly returning to the site where black-clad gunmen sprayed bullets at terrified evening drinkers.

A La Bonne Biere opened for business on a bright and sunny morning in the east of the capital and the first customers pushed through the doors as if everything was -- almost -- normal.

Moscow's top intelligence agency has warned that 10 Syrians linked to the Islamic State group have entered Thailand to target Russians, the kingdom's police said Friday.

A leaked letter, marked "top secret" and "urgent" and signed by the deputy head of Thailand's special branch, was widely circulated in local media late Thursday.

A huge fire chased hundreds of Philippine inmates out of their cells and razed a sprawling shantytown near a Manila prison Friday, leaving thousands of residents homeless, authorities said.

About 500 handcuffed female prisoners were evacuated from Manila City Jail and moved on a temporary basis to a nearby chapel, as towering flames from the burning homes licked the jail’s exterior walls, said national prison bureau official Superintendent Carolina Borrinaga.