BERLIN: When the flood of Middle Eastern refugees arriving in Europe finally ebbs and asylum-seekers settle down in their new homes, Germany could unexpectedly find itself housing the continent's largest Muslim minority. The arrival of so many Syrians fleeing their country's brutal civil war is b

The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role - despite the country having "arguably the worst record in the world" on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents. Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi - sentenced t

OTTAWA: Canada's conservative government on Saturday said that it would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees within one year by simplifying and speeding up the immigration application process. Visa officers will no longer ask the applicants to prove that they are refugees through a United Nations refuge

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Twenty-two suspects have been detained in connection with a deadly attack on a Pakistan air force base claimed by the Taliban, officials said Saturday. Pakistani Taliban militants dressed in official uniforms attacked the air force base near the northwestern city of Peshawar on

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has sworn in a new government, one week after the previous Cabinet resigned amid a corruption probe, Egypt's state news agency reported. The new government, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, a former petroleum minister, took office on Saturday, after state-fri

LAGOS: Nigerian security services said they had recovered $111,000 in cash, wrapped up and swallowed by a member of a suspected smuggling ring. Six suspects, including a bureau de change operator, were arrested and held in the commercial capital Lagos until one of them had excreted 74 tightly-wrapp

JUBA: More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil truck exploded as a crowd tried to gather fuel from the vehicle after it had veered off the road, a regional official said on Thursday, a day after the incident. In addition to those killed in Wednesday's blast, Charles Kisagna, th

SAN FRANCISCO — With a very personal appeal, Google launched a donation-matching campaign that aims to raise $11 million for humanitarian organizations helping hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe who have fled war-torn and impoverished countries. Google said on Tuesday it will match the f

GHAZNI: Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in Afghanistan's Ghazni on Monday , killing police and releasing more than 350 inmates, including nearly 150 deemed a threat to national security , and then at tacked troops rushing to help officials said. The latest Taliban prison raid, on the outskirt

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka announced Sunday 16 Indian fishermen would be released to coincide with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to New Delhi, his first overseas trip since winning last month’s general election. The fishermen, from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, arrested for poachin

Its statement did not give financial details about the deal, which was struck between the governments of Kuwait and Italy. Eurofighter is a partnership between Italy’s Finmeccanica, Britain’s BAE Systems and civilian planemaker Airbus. According to Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, Kuwait’s o

BOGOTA: Two people died when a plane carrying crew members from a film starring Tom Cruise crashed in Colombia, aviation authorities and Universal Pictures said. The crew had just wrapped up production on the upcoming Doug Liman film "Mena," when it went down on Friday while returning to Enrique

MAROPENG, South Africa: The fossilized bones of 15 bodies from a previously unknown human species have been discovered in a cave in South Africa, it was announced Thursday, in what scientists hailed as a breakthrough in evolution research. About 1,500 fossils were found deep in a cave system outsid

JOSO, Japan: Unprecedented rain in Japan unleashed heavy floods on Thursday that tore houses from their foundations, uprooted trees and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes. Helicopters hovering over swirling, muddy waters rescued many people from the roofs of their homes. Seven people

LAS VEGAS: A London-bound British Airways jet caught fire on Tuesday as it was preparing to take off from Las Vegas, prompting the crew to abort takeoff and evacuate terrified passengers. “There were 159 passengers and 13 crew on the flight,” McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas said. It ad

(CNN)Dozens of people have drowned after a boat carrying around 80 people capsized off the coast of western Malaysia. More bodies were recovered Sunday, bringing the total to 61. "The bodies were discovered about eight nautical miles from the location of the incident," Hilir Perak police

SANAA: Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen on Sunday, local tribesmen said, as warplanes pounded Houthis and other forces behind a missile strike that had killed dozens of Gulf Arab soldiers. The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former

BANGKOK: Thailand's military-appointed reform council on Sunday shot down a controversial new constitution drafted after last year's coup, delaying return of democracy to the country in the grip of political turmoil. The 247-member National Reform Council rejected the draft charter by 135 votes t