India reimposes some curbs on movement, phones in Jammu and Kashmir
Indian authorities reimposed restrictions on movement in major parts of Kashmir’s biggest city, Srinagar, on Sunday after violent overnight clashes between residents and police in...
Spain says migrants on charity boat can disembark in Algeciras
The Spanish government on Sunday offered Algeciras as a port to disembark the more than a hundred migrants on a charity rescue ship stranded off...
Over two dozen rescuers try to save trapped cavers in Poland
More than two dozen rescue workers are battling to help save two cavers trapped in a cavern in Poland’s Tatra mountains, the mountain rescue service...
Grace 1 tanker raises Iranian flag, changes name to ‘Adrian Darya-1’
An Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West has raised an Iranian flag and has had a new name painted on...
Yemen’s war cut a father’s route to work, now his toddler starves
Before Yemen’s war broke out four years ago Ali Muhammad used to cross the border into Saudi Arabia to work, joining thousands of other Yemenis...
Islamic State claims Afghan wedding suicide blast that killed 63
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underling the...
Germany, Hungary to mark end of the Iron Curtain
Thirty years ago on Monday Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed people from communist East Germany to cross freely into Austria and hundreds...
Hong Kong protesters throng streets under heavy rain
At least 100,000 anti-government protesters joined a mass rally in Hong Kong on Sunday, filling major thoroughfares in heavy rain in the eleventh week of...
Car bomb targets security force in northeastern Syria, kills one
A car bomb killed one member of a security force and wounded two others in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Sunday,...
Russian nuclear plant turns off unit after safety system error
Block 4 of Russia’s Beloyarsk nuclear power station in the Urals mountains was switched off on Sunday following a “false” response by the safety system,...