Pakistan and India step back from the brink, tensions simmer
A flare up between arch-foes India and Pakistan appeared to be easing on Saturday after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, but tensions continued to simmer amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors
Islamic State faces final territorial defeat in eastern Syria battle
Islamic State faces final territorial defeat as the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said on Saturday it was closing in on the jihadists’ last bastion near the Iraqi border, capping four years of efforts to roll back the group.
U.S.-backed Syrian force expects final IS battle to be over ‘soon’
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expect the battle to take Islamic State’s last territorial enclave to be over “soon”, the head of the SDF media office Mustafa Bali said on Saturday.
U.S.-backed Syrian force says advances into final Islamic State enclave
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have advanced into Islamic State’s final territorial enclave where heavy fighting is under way, the SDF media office said on Friday.
Pakistan and India step back from the brink, but unease continues
A flare up between arch-foes India and Pakistan appeared to be easing on Saturday after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Five years on, MH370 families band together to seek closure
Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished.
Blaze in tower block in London’s Canary Wharf area brought under control
About 60 firefighters and eight fire engines attended to a fire on top of a commercial tower block in London’s Canary Wharf area, but there were no injuries and the fire was under control at 0158 GMT, London Fire Brigade said early on Saturday.
Two more Australian cabinet ministers quit as election looms
Two more ministers in Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s cabinet said on Saturday they will not contest elections due in May, adding to a flurry of high-profile resignations as opinion polls suggest the center-right government faces a heavy def…
Washington cranks up Venezuela sanctions as Guaido tours South America
The United States on Friday ramped up its attempt to dislodge Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power, imposing new sanctions and revoking visas, while opposition leader Juan Guaido said Maduro’s support among the military was cracking.
Mexico frets over U.S. plans to take divisive asylum policy to new cities
The United States is aiming to ramp up in coming weeks a program to send Central American asylum seekers to Mexico to await U.S. court dates, an experimental policy that Mexican officials and migrant shelters say risks overwhelming an underfunded syste…
