AFP, LONDON: British intelligence agents will not face charges over claims they were complicit in the illegal rendition and torture of two opponents of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, prosecutors announced on Thursday. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was “insufficient evidence”…

AFP, PARIS: France on Thursday faced the first major security challenge of Euro 2016 with a giant concert at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where…

AFP, BAGHDAD: Two suicide bomb attacks near the entrance of a military base north of Baghdad and by a market in the Iraqi capital killed at least 18 people Thursday, police said. Both explosions, claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, occurred at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT). The attack by the entrance…

AFP, KATHMANDU: Police arrested 162 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal Thursday for vandalising vehicles and injuring two in a petrol bomb attack while trying to enforce a nationwide strike. The protesters called on factories, schools and public transport to shut down across the Himalayan…

AFP, ALGIERS: Algerian troops have killed four suspected jihadists in an ambush south of the capital Algiers, the defence ministry said on Thursday. A ministry statement said soldiers late Wednesday swooped on militants in the mountainous Medea region, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Algiers, adding that…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday declared a Syrian militant group known as the Yarmuk Martyr’s Brigade a global terrorist threat. The YMB operates on war-torn Syria’s borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and is accused of kidnapping UN peacekeepers. “The…

AFP, BERLIN: Human rights group Amnesty International called on Germany Thursday to better protect shelters for migrants and refugees after a spate of racist attacks. Amnesty’s Germany branch warned in a report that the country has no uniform plan to protect such facilities, which are the responsibility…