Negotiations are underway between the Afghan, Iranian and Indian officials for the construction of railway from the strategic Chabahar port to the western Herat province of Afghanistan. According to the officials in the Ministry of Public Works of Afghanistan, the government of India is mulling the support the construction of the railway from Chabahar to Herat. The officials further added ...

PARIS – Germany’s vice chancellor is making clear that likely gains for a nationalist party in state elections on Sunday won’t change his government’s stance on migrants. The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party is expected to win seats in three more German state legislatures in the election amid unease over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcome last year for large numbers ...

In a new set of immigration rules announced by the British government, non-European Union (EU) residents who earn less than 35,000 British pounds will be deported, reported the The Guardian. The new rules will come into effect from April 6. The regulation will be applicable to skilled workers who have lived in UK for less than 10 years, and earn ...

ANKARA: Turkey and Belgium Wednesday vowed to jointly tackle Syria’s refugee crisis. Turkish Foreign Minister, MevlutÇavusoglu, and visiting Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, both consider the regional refugee crisis a growing challenge running parallel with the continued Syrian conflict. They believe it can only be overcome through genuine cooperation, they both said, during a joint press ...

LJUBLJANA : The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut their borders, hiking pressure on the EU and Turkey to nail down a “game-changing” grand bargain. Slovenia and Croatia, two of the countries along the well-trodden route, said late on Tuesday that no migrants ...

BERLIN – Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one of the last stepping stones to Germany for hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants, recently imposed border restrictions, setting ...

GENEVA – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) issued Friday a six-point plan to guide EU member states in solving the refugee crisis which is showing no signs of abating. “We are running out of time, and strong leadership and vision are urgently needed from European leaders to deal with what is, in my view, a situation that can still be ...

The beheading of a child by an Uzbek woman in Russia sent shockwaves globally after reports along with the disturbing footage of the woman appeared in the media showing her carrying the severed head of the child. Soon after her arrest by Russian police, the woman appeared in Moscow court, making a distressing comment to media on the way to ...

Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are waging a nasty war on U.S.-based scholars whose writings and public statements undermine cherished narratives promulgated by the army that has dominated Pakistan’s governance for most of the state’s existence. These agencies aim to intimidate, discredit, and silence us. Their tools are crude and include: outright threats; slanderous articles in Pakistani papers and other ...

KIEV – Germany and France on Tuesday called upon the Ukrainian authorities to fully implement the country’s stalled reforms, including those prescribed in the Minsk ceasefire agreement. “Reforms in Ukraine should not stop. The country needs both political stability and continuation of reforms,” visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said during a joint press conference in Kiev with his French ...