
PAKISTAN
Pakistan airports in chaos as staff strike
Flight operations across Pakistan come to a near standstill as staff of the country’s flag carrier stage walkout.

Flight operations across Pakistan come to a near standstill as staff of the country’s flag carrier stage walkout.

Criminal exonerations in the United States hit a record high last year due to wrongful convictions and an unjust legal system, a new report has found.

Greek journalists walk off their jobs over a pension reform, one day before a general strike.

Iranian stocks have climbed to their best performance in a year, buoyed by international rush for business in the wake of a nuclear deal.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the flow of arms and money to terrorists must be blocked.

The Ukrainian economy minister resigns over what he called blocked reforms.

Israeli forces detain at least 17 Palestinians in separate raids across the Palestinian territories.

Russia says it will not cease its airstrikes against terrorists in Syria until they are defeated.

The army in Lebanon reportedly kills a senior Daesh member in the east of the country.

Analysts say the Pentagon's plan to increase funding for the fight against Daesh is aimed at countering Russia's successes in Syria.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran does not want to become a “domineering power” in the region.

Iraqi army forces kill more than a hundred Daesh Takfiri militants during operations across the country.

Nigerian authorities are accused of conducting a sham investigation of the killing of hundreds of Muslims in Zaria last year.

A Venezuelan party proposes a reform to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International says it wants to open a branch in Tehran “as quickly as possible.”

A human rights institution says Israeli military forces abducted at least 149 Palestinians across al-Quds (Jerusalem) last month.

At least three people are killed in a US drone attack in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.

A number of US senators are pushing for fresh sanctions against Iran over Tehran’s non-nuclear activities.