World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
A 200-litre barrel of heating kerosene in Erbil now costs more than six times the subsidised price, as Baghdad prepares to send fuel that officials say covers less than a fifth of winter needs.
Private William Douglas Dal Bianco died on Friday, nearly a month after a wind-driven grass fire swept through troops on a grenade-launcher range at CFB Wainwright, the military said.
The Irish-born writer’s Pakistan Handbook and trekking guides, written over three decades, introduced a generation of visitors to the country.
The Interior Ministry told citizens and residents to go to the nearest safe place early on Sunday, then said the danger had passed, without saying what the threat was.
Hamas confirmed that Samir Abu Younis, 53, who led its Rafah brigade, was killed in a drone strike on al-Mawasi, two days after Israel hit Nasser hospital in the same city.
Village vigilantes ambushed a kidnapping gang in Zoma on Thursday, killing 44 of its members and losing nine of their own men, residents say.
Israeli forces detained three people in a raid on Jabata al-Khashab, Syrian state media said, as provincial figures showed 125 incursions in October alone.
Police in Assam say the device was taken out so the minibus could make more trips. The toll has risen to 26, and officials are still trying to trace the family of a two-year-old survivor.
Diwanay Dil, with singer Sabaat Batin and producer Jokhay, ends the six-song series and turns a jam under Karachi’s Lilly Bridge into a music video.
Carney said talks with Washington were making progress but Ottawa would not accept a deal that hurts its car industry, as he announced two Asian trade agreements in Manila.
