Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the National Assembly yesterday that the chief justice of Pakistan did not order removal of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s name from the exit control list (ECL).

Czechs yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of student Jan Palach setting himself on fire in central Prague in a desperate act aimed at lifting the apathy hanging over the country in the wake of the Soviet invasion that crushed the Prague Spring of 1968.

In southern Spain, the far-right party Vox has drawn farmers’ votes with a pledge to deport illegal workers.

A Chinese state-owned company marked yesterday the completion of an ambitious land reclamation adjacent to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, part of Beijing’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure initiative that has alarmed India and the West.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said yesterday that gunmen who stormed a luxury hotel complex, killing 14 people, had been “eliminated” after an almost 20-hour operation in which hundreds of civilians were rescued.

A House investigation has found that Aremar Construction Corp, the contractor allegedly favoured by Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, had received P81.1mn in kickbacks as part of bid-rigging schemes.

The EU would consider a potential British request for closer post-Brexit ties than London has sought so far, but will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement rejected by parliament, its Brexit negotiator said yesterday.

Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the British parliament on Wednesday before proposing immediate talks with other party leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock on a Brexit divorce agreement.

At least 890 people were killed over three days in mid-December in western Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed into a confidence vote Wednesday with his political future on the line after a row over a landmark name deal with Macedonia sunk his four-year coalition.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who is on a state visit to the Philippines, praised President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs as ‘an example to the whole world.’

Sudanese police Wednesday fired tear gas at crowds of anti-government protesters in Kassala, witnesses said, in the first such demonstration held in the eastern town bordering Eritrea.