AFP, BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France: Protesters furious over the death of a young man in custody attacked police and burnt cars in a fourth night of unrest in northern suburbs of Paris. Ten people were arrested and four officers slightly injured in the violence in Beaumont-sur-Oise and two other towns nearby,…

AFP, BEIRUT: Islamic State group militants clashed Saturday with US-backed fighters in Syria’s Manbij, a monitor said, as a 48-hour deadline passed for the jihadists to leave the battleground town. The ultimatum was issued Thursday by the Manbij Military Council, part of the Arab-Kurdish Syrian…

AFP, VIENNA: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday announced he would hold talks on the war in Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a regional summit next week in Laos. “I think our next meeting will be on the side of the meeting in Asia. I’ll see him…

AFP, LONDON: Leaders from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland said Friday that Brexit must not mean a “hard border” being put up between the two. At an emergency meeting of the British Irish Council in Cardiff, called to discuss the aftermath of Britain’s vote last month to…

AFP, TEHRAN: At least 16 people were killed and 12 others injured early Saturday when a speeding bus smashed into an electricity pole in northern Iran, state television reported. It quoted a police official as saying that the driver of the bus, that was travelling to the capital Tehran from a city near…

AFP, CHENNAI: India on Saturday stepped up a major search operation for an air force plane that disappeared over the Bay of Bengal the day before with 29 people on board, as the defence minister headed to the region. The AN-32 military transport plane was on a routine flight from the southern city of…

A row has erupted over what to do with the land in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city where former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived and was killed,…