AFP, PARIS: Veteran French politician Laurent Fabius bowed out of government Wednesday after a career spanning more than three decades that saw an early…

AFP, SEOUL: North Korea’s army chief of staff has been executed, South Korean media reported Wednesday, in what would amount to the latest in a series of purges and executions of top officials by leader Kim Jong-Un. Ri Yong-Gil, Chief of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) General Staff was executed…

AFP, LONDON: Julian Assange should leave the Ecuadoran embassy in London and bring to an end the “whole sorry saga”, British Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament on Wednesday. WikiLeaks founder Assange faces a rape allegation in Sweden but has been inside Quito’s mission for…

AFP, LAHORE: Six schoolchildren were among at least 10 people killed when a fireball erupted as a tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) collided with a car in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, engulfing surrounding vehicles, officials said. The accident, which also injured at least 17, happened…

AFP, TRIPOLI: Libya’s internationally recognised parliament has extended to Sunday a deadline for the formation of a new national unity government aimed at ending years of chaos in the North African country. Lawmakers from the parliament, currently exiled in eastern Libya, on Tuesday voted to…