ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (Reuters): Beijing is pushing Pakistan to allow its own security staff to provide protection to thousands of Chinese citizens working in the South Asian nation, during talks after a car bombing in Karachi that was seen as a major security breach. Last month\’s airport bombing in the southern port city that killed two Chinese […]
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LFAFAR, SPAIN (Reuters): Spanish rescuers opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre and battled to reach areas still cut off on Friday as the death toll from catastrophic floods rose to 205 people in Europe\’s worst weather disaster in five decades. In Valencia, the eastern region that bore the brunt of the devastation, about
GRAN CANARIA, Spain, Oct 20 (Reuters): Thousands of people protested in holiday resorts in Spain\’s Canary Islands on Sunday against over-tourism which they say prices local people out of the housing market. Under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, residents demonstrated simultaneously in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro and
RIYADH: The government of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become fed up with the influx of beggars from Pakistan disguised as Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. According to media reports, the government of Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to check the arrival of beggars on umrah and Hajj visas. The government sources said that beggars
LONDON/SEOUL, Aug 23 (Reuters): Singapore Airlines, British Airways and Lufthansa have increased their flights over Afghanistan after years of largely avoiding it now the Middle East conflict has made it seem a relatively safe option. The carriers mostly stopped transiting Afghanistan, which lies on major routes between Asia and Europe, three years ago when the
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