BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army retook the last town in the country still held by the Islamic State group yesterday as the jihadists’ self-proclaimed “caliphate” faced collapse on both sides of the border with Syria, reports AFP. The lightning recapture of the small Euphrates valley town of…

Notorious Sicilian Mafia “boss of all bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87, reports BBC. Riina…

BEIRUT: Shelling by the Syrian regime on the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus yesterday killed at least 10 civilians, among them six children, a monitor said, reports AFP. The deaths were the result of the latest bout in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat attacks between regime forces…

BRUSSELS: A Belgian court will yesterday consider whether to send axed Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont back to Spain to face charges of rebellion and sedition over his region’s independence drive, reports AFP. Madrid issued a European arrest warrant for Puigdemont and four of his former…

BONN: UN negotiations on how to implement the climate-rescue Paris Agreement wrap up in Bonn yesterday, after two weeks of talks unnerved by an American defence of fossil fuels, reports AFP. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the hard-fought global pact cast a…

BAMENDA: It’s only 8pm, but in the bars by the Hospital Roundabout, one of the liveliest nightspots in Bamenda, thoughts are already turning to…