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 Saturday night in ways that recalled a spate of mob attacks at chaotic New Year’s festivities in Cologne. Police said ...

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 quoted sources as saying that Mr Modi will first go to Afghanistan on June 4, where he will inaugurate the ...

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 the same route to western Europe. According to reports, the authorities in Bulgaria fear the migrants may try to transit ...

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 in The Med   Horrific pics of more than 550 refugees clinging on to a capsizing boat for their dear ...

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 leave the EU in a June 23 referendum, was attacked by opponents at home who called his remarks “offensive and ...

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 wars and disasters. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined the proposal for a new “global compact on responsibility-sharing” on Monday to ...

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 A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by former Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman Khaled al-Falih. Al-Naimi has long been a pillar of Saudi oil policy, leading the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources ...

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 first Muslim mayor on Friday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a ...

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 reiterated the officially atheistic communist government’s rules forbidding the presence of religion in public schools at all levels, saying it ...

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, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech will be a blow to any hope in ...