Rome: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a press conference at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday.—AFP ROME: Italy and Germany agree on how Europe should tackle the migrant crisis and oppose any move to fence off borders, but they are at odds over how to fund proposed initiatives, the leaders of the two countries said on ...

ROME: Improved sea conditions are permitting the Italian navy to resume a complex operation to recover a sunken fishing boat with the bodies of hundreds of migrants inside. Navy vessels are set to head Wednesday to the site of the April 2015 shipwreck, in which the immense loss of life spurred Europe to step up patrols of the Mediterranean, where ...

“This is the most tragic example of a shameful Government policy,” Lord Ashdown, who champions the cause of the translators, told media.” Tragedy of betrayed Afghan hero: Translator facing deportation despite helping the British Army kills himself after being told he does not qualify for asylum UNITED KINGDOM: An Afghan asylum seeker has reportedly committed suicide in United Kingdom after ...

The decision by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to live-tweet the military operation that culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden “as if it were happening today” has been criticized by online users. The criticisms followed after CIA shared details of the mission and intelligence that led to America’s most wanted man being found, with majority of the audience reacting ...

Stuttgart: Police use pepper spray against protesters outside the Stuttgart Congress Centre on Saturday.—AFP STUTTGART: German riot police on Saturday arrested some 400 protesters as clashes erupted outside a meeting of the right-wing populist AfD party, which is set to adopt an anti-Islamic manifesto amid a rise in European anti-migrant groups. Left-wing demonstrators burned tyres and threw firecrackers as they ...

LAHORE: MBA degree-holder Zaman Arshad managed to reach Turkey through a land route after paying about Rs150,000 to human smugglers. But before he could make his next move, the agent mafia, which helped him in his illegal journey to his desired destination, detained him in Turkey and asked him to pay $2,500 more for his freedom. Arshad, who hails from ...

We know the world today is turbulent, volatile and violent. It is also interconnected and interdependent. That’s why who gets to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations matters to everyone. And that’s why Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, should get the world’s top job. True, Merkel hasn’t yet thrown her hat in the ring. She’s too busy running not ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with U.S. President Barack Obama at a dinner hosted by the latter in the White House earlier this month.  He will be the fifth Prime Minister of India to address a joint meeting of Congress, and the first since 2005. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of ...

LONDON: Naz Shah makes a statement in the House of Commons.—AP LONDON: Britain’s Labour Party on Wednesday suspended one of its own parliamentarians pending an investigation into allegations she shared anti-semitic posts on social media. Bradford West MP Naz Shah told the House of Commons she “profoundly” regretted the posts made in 2014, before she became an MP. Shah shared ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 20th anniversary celebration of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, CTBTO, at UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. ─ AP VIENNA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for the US, China and other nuclear-armed states to end the “madness” of atomic testing by finally ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban ...