FRANCE: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has talked to the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani in Paris on the sidelines of the global summit on climate change. The two leaders discussed the reconciliatory dialogue process between the Taliban and the Afghan government, which had disrupted this year in July after breaking of the news regarding the death of Mulla Umar. According ...

PARIS: In the context of 140 heads of the states meeting in Paris against the climate change, hundreds of thousand people across the globe have protested against global warming. Thousands of protesters gathered in before Batclan music hall where an emergency situation has been imposed which prevents people from protesting here. The protesters had gathered to pay tribute to the ...

GERMANY: Germany’s culture of welcoming refugees has taken a less desirable turn with discussions on drawing a line and limiting the number of refugees to accept. Organizational problems are increasing and the conservative CSU parties are calling for a halt to the influx. However the 747 anti-refugee recorded incidents and the conflation of jihadists and refugees are not legitimate tools ...

France held a memorial service Friday to mark two weeks since the deadly terrorist attacks in the capital, Paris. The names of the 130 victims of the attack were read at the ceremony held in the courtyard of Paris’ central Invalides complex. Among those in attendance were French President Francois Hollande, families of victims, and hundreds of those injured in ...

LONDON: More than half of Britons now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll carried out after the Paris attacks for the Independent newspaper. The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 per cent of British voters wanted to leave while 48 per cent wanted to stay. In similar polls in June, July and September, a ...

France is pulling out all the stops as François Hollande scrambles to fulfil his ambitious pledge to build a global military coalition to defeat Islamic State following the Paris attacks. The French president has won public approval and international backing for his handling of the crisis so far. His poll ratings are up by eight points to 33%. Foreign leaders ...

The United Nations has called the states to fight “a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security” which is Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL, Da’esh). All 15 members of the UN Security Council voted to adopt the French-proposed resolution. The resolution “calls upon member states that have the capacity to do so to take all necessary measures … on ...

AFRICA: Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital, Bamako, to try to free hostages taken after it was stormed by gunmen. The hotel says 138 people remain inside. The gunmen stormed it shooting and shouting “God is great!” in Arabic, eyewitnesses say. Malian officials said 30 hostages have been freed. State TV earlier put the ...

BRUSSELS: EU ministers hold emergency talks today on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc’s security. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin suspected of masterminding the attacks that left 129 people dead in the name of the Islamic State group, ...

UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. diplomat tasked with trying to bring Syria’s warring parties together said Thursday that a cease-fire covering large parts of the country is not unrealistic. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that previous efforts at localized truces had failed because they lacked the backing of regional and international players who have influence over the parties. “There are indications,” he ...