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BUDAPEST: Hungarian police said on Sunday they had arrested a fifth suspect, a Bulgarian citizen, in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants whose bodies were found in an abandoned refrigeration lorry on a highway in Austria last week. An unprecedented number of people from the Middle East and Africa are undertaking perilous journeys to reach Europe by land and ... Read More »

• Deputy PM warns organizers they may face legal action • 12 arrested for wearing protest’s signature “yellow shirt“ • Analysts: Protests unlikely to spur broad public support • Najib says lies circulating about the economy’s troubles KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, joining anti-government protesters for a second day on Sunday, called for a “people’s power” movement to ... Read More »

QUETTA: Gunmen stormed a remote airport in troubled southwestern Pakistan before dawn on Sunday, killing two engineers and destroying the facility’s radar system, authorities said. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Jewani airport in Balochistan province, which is fighting separatist insurgents as well as various other militants. About a dozen armed men on motorcycles were involved ... Read More »

SANAA: Security officials say gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the head of security in Yemen’s port city of Aden. The officials say Col. Abdelhakim Al-Sanidi was killed Sunday while driving on a busy street in Al-Mansoura neighborhood. No group immediately claimed Sunday’s attack, but some officials say they suspect Al-Qaeda because hitting a moving target from a speeding motorcycle ... Read More »

CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned the British ambassador over his criticism of prison sentences handed to three journalists from Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera. “What counts is the Egyptian people’s confidence in the transparency and independence of the Egyptian judiciary,” the ministry said, calling ambassador John Casson’s comments “unacceptable interference.” It said: “Egypt needs lessons from no one.” A Cairo ... Read More »

JOHANNESBURG: At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash while traveling to a famous traditional festival in Swaziland, a rights group said on Saturday. About 20 others were injured when the truck they were in collided with another vehicle on Friday, the Swaziland Solidarity Network said in a statement. The young women and girls were allegedly ... Read More »

ADEN: Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen rebel positions Saturday as reinforcements reached pro-government forces preparing for an anticipated advance toward the capital, military sources said. Apache helicopters struck a base occupied by rebel forces near Bayhan, in the southern province of Shabwa, hours after fighter jets targeted a convoy of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the area, a ... Read More »

ANKARA: Turkish planes have for the first time joined raids by the US-led coalition against Daesh positions in Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Saturday. “Our fighter planes … along with planes from the coalition yesterday evening began joint operations against (Daesh) targets which pose a threat to the security of our country,” it said in a statement. US Defense ... Read More »

JEDDAH: Disputes over sharing of property or inheriting family business are common. But Dhahran has witnessed an unusual fight among four brothers — over donating kidney to their youngest brother. Coincidentally, all the brothers were found fit to donate kidney to the youngest sibling Abdullah, who had suffered a renal failure and was ill for over a year.  “Surprisingly, none ... Read More »

JOHANNESBURG: When Chinese company Shanghai Zendai bought 1,600 hectares (4,000 acres) of land outside Johannesburg in 2013, it promised to build the "New York of Africa." The sleepy district of Modderfontein would be transformed into a $7.8 billion metropolis with a forest of skyscrapers, 35,000 houses and a sanctuary of green space to rival Central Park. The planned city became ... Read More »

BARCELONA, Spain: An anti-corruption operation targeted Catalonia’s ruling CDC party on Friday, tainting a separatist coalition that wants the wealthy region to secede from Spain if it wins a regional election next month. Police searched the headquarters of the party and of its CatDem Foundation in Barcelona as well as the home of a former party treasurer and four town ... Read More »

VIENNA: Hungary said Friday it has arrested four people over the discovery of 71 decomposing bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria, another grim tragedy involving migrants desperately seeking refuge in Europe. In the horrific incident — a rare occurrence on land in a prosperous country when so many migrants have died at sea — Austrian police said the dead ... Read More »

ZUWARA, Libya: Libya recovered 105 bodies after a boat packed with migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea and said almost 100 more people were missing and feared dead. The vessel sank on Thursday after leaving Zuwara, a major launchpad for smugglers shipping migrants to Italy by exploiting a security vacuum in Libya where rival governments are fighting for control four ... Read More »

PARIS: The Paris prosecutor’s office and a lawyer for Morocco’s King Mohammad VI say two French journalists have been arrested in France for allegedly trying to blackmail the monarch. The prosecutor’s office said the two, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, remained in detention Friday. Eric Dupont-Moretti, a lawyer for the king, told RTL radio Thursday that Laurent claimed he and ... Read More »

BUNOL, Spain: Thousands of revelers pelted each other with tomatoes on Wednesday in the town of Bunol in eastern Spain, bathing the streets with red goo in the annual “Tomatina” battle. A string of trucks laden with 170 tons of tomatoes rolled through the town’s narrow streets, as teams on board distributed their load to surrounding crowds for people to ... Read More »