AFP, TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called for tougher action by the Iraqi government on Friday after a jihadist suicide bombing killed at least 70 people, most of them Iranian pilgrims. Thursday’s huge truck bomb blast, claimed by the Islamic State group, ripped through a petrol…

AFP, LONDON: Former British prime minister John Major believes there is a “credible case” for a second referendum on Brexit, a newspaper reported Friday, after his successor Tony Blair suggested the process could be stopped.Major, a former leader of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative…

AFP, MONTPELLIER, France: Investigators probing the killing of a worker at a Christian missionary retirement home in southern France believe it was a local crime and are not treating it as a terror attack, a prosecutor said Friday. The death set nerves jangling in France late Thursday after a string…

AFP, ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday expressed shock and pledged to improve conditions in migrant camps after a fire killed two people and badly burned two more on the island of Lesbos. “I am shocked, as are all Greeks, by this tragic incident,” Tsipras said during…

AFP, LONDON: Environmental group Greenpeace is calling for a ban in Britain on plastic “microbeads”, found in many cosmetics, which they warn…

AFP, SRINAGAR, India: An Indian soldier and two suspected rebels were killed Friday in a gun battle in northern Indian-administered Kashmir as tensions along the de facto border with Pakistan flared again this week. The Indian army, which maintains a heavy presence in the disputed territory, said that…