LONDON: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a visit to Britain on Thursday expected to yield trade deals worth billions of dollars, but his arrival was overshadowed by protests over a perceived rise in intolerance back home. Bruised by his Hindu nationalist party’s election defeat in populou

BERLIN: Lufthansa scrapped 930 more flights on Wednesday, grounding 100,000 passengers after a court allowed cabin staff to press on with a strike that is shaping up to be the worst in the German airline’s history. The new flight cancellations in and out of Germany’s biggest airport, Frankfurt, as

QUETTA: Pakistan authorities have halted funding to hundreds of “ghost schools” and fired 450 absentee teachers, with officials vowing Tuesday to launch a crackdown on the practice in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. “We have detected and stopped funds to some 650 ghost schools and sacked

PARIS: Rising seas from global warming could submerge swathes of New York and Shanghai, and drive millions of people into poverty worldwide, researchers warned Monday as climate-altering carbon levels broke new records. The slew of fresh planetary warnings came as ministers met in Paris searching c

Pakistan has invited External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for a crucial regional conference here on Afghanistan, a move that could provide an opportunity for the two neighbours to mend their frosty ties. The ‘Heart of Asia’ conference will be held on December 7 and 8, where representatives fro

CAIRO: Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are “90 percent sure” the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters on Sunday. “The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box

ISTANBUL: Turkish police on Saturday detained seven foreign nationals in southern Turkey on suspicion of planning to head to Syria to join Islamic State fighters, state media said. The detentions were part of a series of police operations against suspected members of IS across Turkey, which is on

LAHORE: Hopes of finding more survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Pakistani factory were fading as darkness fell Thursday, with rescuers warning the death toll would likely rise as they dig further down through the debris. Soldiers and rescuers in Lahore have pulled 108 people out of the rubb

BANGUI: Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, including members of the country’s transitional council, to press for the national army to be rearmed, a Reuters witness said. The march was guarded by security forces and UN peacekeepers and is the lat

JUBA, South Sudan: A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing at least 41 people on the flight and on the ground, an official and a Reuters witness said. A crew member and a child on board survived, p

LONDON: The Scottish government gave the go-ahead on Monday to Britain’s floating offshore wind farm project, which could power 19,000 households, saying it would be the “world’s largest.” The Norwegian energy company Statoil wants to locate five turbines — with a capacity of six megawatts each — 2

DHAKA: Angry publishers burnt books and closed their businesses in Bangladesh on Monday, in the third day of protests over the latest gruesome attacks on secular writers and publishers by suspected hardline Islamists. Hundreds of people, including book-shop owners, took to the streets of Dhaka to

YANGON: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed a huge rally on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city today, offering a message of reconciliation with political opponents if her party sweeps the upcoming general election. Suu Kyi also called for calm and stability as the campaign period ne

CAIRO: Several Egyptian military and security officials say there are no survivors from the Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people that crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Mahmud Al-Zinati, the head of Egypt’s civil aviation authority, earlier said there were “many dead” including 17 childre

Nepalese motorists wait for their turn to fill fuel on their motorbikes at a fuel pump run by the Nepalese army in Kathmandu | AP China could well become a long-term fuel supplier to Nepal, undercutting IOC, which had been the sole supplier of fuel to Nepal for four decades. Chin

NEW YORK: The UN is estimating that 13.5 million people in Syria are now in need of humanitarian assistance and some form of protection, including more than six million children. UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that this represents an increase of some

KABUL/PESHAWAR (Pakistan): A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing 180 people - 147 in Pakistan and 33 in Afghanistan - and injuring 1,000 others, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because

Tony Blair has made apologies about aspects of the Iraq War for the first time and has said there are 'elements of truth' in the theory that the invasion helped feed the rise of Isis. In a TV interview with CNN, the former British Prime Minister said he was sorry that the intelligence behind the