Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is heading back to Britain after completing her four-day visit to Pakistan, the first to her home country since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012. Malala and her family had arrived early on April 2 at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, where she boarded her flight to London. Malala, now 20, traveled to ...

KABUL: The Norwegian parliament’s decision on Thursday to reject a proposal to place a temporary halt on returning people to Afghanistan is a devastating blow to Afghan asylum-seekers in Norway, and demonstrates a disturbing disregard for the lives of people fleeing war and persecution, Amnesty International said in a statement. The parliament also rejected a proposal that would mean more ...

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel resumed complex coalition talks on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to forge a government and avert a political crisis in Europe’s biggest economy. The veteran leader, in power since 2005, won a September 24 vote without a clear majority for her conservative CDU/CSU bloc, largely because of the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

This file photo taken on May 11, 2017 shows Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal speaking during a press conference in Jeddah. ─ AFP Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom’s young crown prince consolidates power. Separately, the head of the Saudi National ...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Saadabad Palace.─AP Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran’s leadership on Wednesday in Tehran as the two Damascus allies push a Syria peace plan and the Kremlin offers its backing for a landmark nuclear deal facing US opposition. Putin ─ on his first visit to ...

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gives a press conference after a crisis cabinet meeting at the Moncloa Palace.─AFP Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy demanded on Wednesday that the Catalan leader clarify whether he has declared independence, issuing a veiled threat that the central government could limit or rescind the province’s autonomy if he has. He said the Catalan government’s response ...

GERMANY: Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Social Union say they want to limit the annual migrants to 200,000. Germany’s conservative parties said on Monday that they have agreed on a law limiting the number of migrants allowed to enter the country every year though parliament has the power to change the figure in the future. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British PM Theresa May at the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium on June 22.— Reuters EUROPE is getting very complicated. And even more confusing than usual. But there’s no doubt that after years of political paralysis and economic stagnation, the continent is on the move again, with no dull moment. So ...

German Chancellor and Christian Democrats party (CDU) leader Angela Merkel (R) leaves the stage after speaking during an election night event at the CDU party’s headquarters in Berlin during the general election on September 24, 2017. —AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a fourth term in Germany’s election on Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the hard-right AfD party winning ...

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmar to take back some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the Buddhist-dominated country. Hasina, speaking to Bangladeshi activists in New York where she is attending the United Nations General Assembly, also called for greater international pressure on Myanmar over the new crisis which has unfolded in the past three weeks, ...