BERLIN: German police have arrested three Pakistani suspects as 18 women have reported becoming victims of sexual assaults at a music festival, authorities said Tuesday. The mostly young women said they were encircled and groped by groups of men on ...
Read More »Modi to visit Afghanistan on June 4
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Afghanistan this week on his way to the US where he is scheduled to address a joint session of the Congress on June 8, NDTV said on Sunday The news channel ...
Read More »Bulgaria to return 53 detained Afghan migrants to Greece
At least 53 Afghan migrants detained in Bulgaria will be returned to Greece by the Authorities who are saying the move will be taken in a bid to send a strong message” to others who might be tempted to use ...
Read More »Horrific pictures show 550 refugees fighting for their lives by clinging onto capsizing boat
The overcrowded vessel turned over in the Mediterranean today as its migrant passengers desperately tried to reach Europe from war-torn Libya Desperate migrants are seen holding onto a fast capsizing fishing boat ...
Read More »EU ‘acting like Hitler’, says UK’s former mayor
LONDON: Former London mayor Boris Johnson claimed the European Union was behaving like Hitler by trying to create a superstate in an interview out on Sunday which unleashed a wave of criticism. Johnson, the leading figure campaigning for Britain to ...
Read More »United Nations wants to resettle 10pc of the world’s refugees
UNITED NATIONS: A new UN plan to tackle the worst refugee crisis since World War II would aim to resettle at least 10 per cent of refugees annually, piling pressure on countries to open up their doors to those fleeing ...
Read More »Saudi Arabia ousts long-time oil minister
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced the ouster of its long-serving oil minister as part of a larger ongoing government shake-up. A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by former Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman ...
Read More »Sadiq Khan officially declared the first Muslim Mayor of London
Sadiq Khan and his wife Saadiya leave after casting their votes for the London mayoral elections at a polling station in south London Britain May 5, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS LONDON: Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, became London’s ...
Read More »Chinese province orders religion out of school
BEIJING (AP): A heavily Muslim Chinese province has demanded strict adherence to a ban on religion in schools after a video circulated online in which a kindergartener recites verses from the Quran. The government in the northwestern province of Gansu ...
Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan rebuffs EU on terrorism law; ‘we’re going our way, you go yours’
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters during an opening ceremony in Istanbul. —Reuters ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday, Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, ...
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