QUETTA REUTERS July 12-Pakistani police detained hundreds of members of the former ruling party in the central city of Lahore on Thursday, weeks before the country heads to the polls, party officials said.   

(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Rick Noack · WORLD, EUROPE · Jul 12, 2018 - 5:23 PM   BERLIN - For more than half a century, the deployment of U.S. troops to Germany appeared to be a mutually beneficial relationship. Am

NEW DELHI AFP July12, 2018-A British lawyer assisting Bangladesh’s opposition leader in her fight against corruption charges has been refused entry to India where he was scheduled to give a press conference about the case.   

All 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave have been rescued, a Thai navy SEAL unit said on Tuesday, a successful end to a perilous mission that gripped the world.

A suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, including two intelligence service agents and 10 civilians, authorities said.

BEIJING (Reuters),JULY 10 2018   - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged a package of $20 billion in loans and $1.6 billion in financial aid to countries in the Middle East, as part of what he called an “oil and gas plus&rdq

US, (Daily Mail), 10 July 2018 -  Donald Trump risked sparking a diplomatic incident today ahead of his visit to the UK by saying the country is ‘in turmoil’ and refusing to endorse Theresa May as PM.   The US president sai

India’s top court on Tuesday began hearing arguments challenging a colonial-era law banning homosexuality, and activists said they were optimistic it would be overturned it despite opposition from some ruling lawmakers.

Three months of rhetoric just became reality. The United States imposed the first duties on $34 billion in Chinese goods early Friday and China immediately retaliated, launching a commercial battle that analysts fear could shake markets a

PHUKET, THAILAND, (The Hindu) JULY 06, 2018 - Thai divers scoured the wreckage of a boat with Chinese tourists that sank in a storm off the resort island of Phuket, as the death toll rose to 10 with about 45 others missing on Friday, officials said.&

Canada, (Daily Mail), 6 July 2018 -  Justin Trudeau on Thursday revealed for the first time that he did apologize to a female reporter who accused him of groping but insisted he did nothing wrong.  

Britain demanded on Thursday that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck down with the same poison.   

NANTES AFP July5, 2018- A French policeman was detained for questioning Thursday over the fatal shooting of a young man that has sparked two nights of rioting in the western city of Nantes.    Burned out cars and broken glass littered the s

Thai;and, (Daily Mail), 5 July 2018- The young football team trapped underground in Thailand are still too weak to attempt to leave their flooded cave with two boys and their coach suffering from exhaustion, it has emerged.  

Twelve Thai boys and their football coach who were lost in a flooded cave for nine days may be stuck there for months before they can be rescued.   

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP),3 July 2018-The Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted Monday evening, ejecting a 2,000-meter-high column of thick ash and hurling lava down its slopes.   

 Iran keeps its promises, President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday in Switzerland, ahead of a planned meeting between the chief diplomats from Tehran and five key countries focused on salvaging a 2015 deal to set controls on Iran’s nuclear pr

Daily Mail, 3 July 2018 -A senior Catholic Church official has avoided jail and will spend six months in home detention for concealing child sex crimes.   

 Hindustan Times(Mumbai), Jul 03 2018-A part of a foot overbridge collapsed at Andheri station in Mumbai on Tuesday morning following heavy rain, hitting suburban local train services, a Western Railway spokesman said. 

Mexicans vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with Donald Trump’s United States.  &n

More than 120,000 civilians have been uprooted by a Syrian army offensive in the southwest since it began last week, a war monitor said on Friday, and a senior U.N. official warned of catastrophe as they risked being trapped between warring sides.&nb

DPA, 01st JULY, 2018- A protest against water shortages in south-western Iran turned violent as the police intervened and clashed with demonstrators, according to Iranian media reports on Sunday. Areas of Khuzestan province have been without water fo

Dhaka (dpa), 1 July 2018 - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Dhaka on Sunday to hold discussions on the plights of the more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims driven from their home in Myanmar, officials said.  

EU leaders have clinched a deal to tackle the migrant crisis after marathon talks through the night yielded vague pledges to strengthen external borders and explore new migrant centres.  

The Indonesian tourist island of Bali closed its international airport on Friday, stranding thousands of travellers, as the Mount Agung volcano gushed a 2,500-metre column of ash and smoke.   The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said the

Hindustan Times(Srinagar), Jun 29 2018  -  One militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Trehgam of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.   

THE HINDU, 29th JUNE, 2018-Former Maldivian President and exiled opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed on Friday said that he was exiting the presidential race, after the Election Commission barred his candidacy.“In light of the fact that @Election

TOKYO (Reuters),JUNE 29 2018  -  U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought to reassure Japan on Friday that Washington was mindful of its interests in talks with North Korea, during a stop in Tokyo that underscored the close U.S. ally’

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, both of their governments announced Thursday.  

Beijing, (Hindustan Times), June 28, 2018 - China is committed to peace and will never pursue expansionism but will not give up an “inch” of territory, President Xi Jinping told visiting US defence secretary James Mattis at a meeting in B