US automaker Ford said Monday it would lay off about 450 employees in Canada as it ends production of two vehicles currently assembled there. This month, Ford stopped making the Lincoln MKT at its Oakville assembly plant west of Toronto, and will discontinue the Ford Flex SUV by the end of November, a company spokeswoman told AFP. The decision is …

United States officials have said the body of militant Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea, as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation that led to his death over the weekend. Syrian Kurds claimed to be a key source of the intelligence that led Americans to Baghdadi after years of tracking the man behind a …

Saudi Aramco aims to announce the start of its initial public offering (IPO) on November 3, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, after delaying the deal earlier this month to give advisers time to secure cornerstone investors. Separately, Aramco has not approached the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) to invest in the IPO, the sovereign wealth fund’s managing director Farouk …

BAYONNE: French police were investigating Tuesday the motives of an 84-year-old man with links to France’s main far-right party who attacked a mosque and shot two men in their 70s, seriously wounding both. The attack in Bayonne on Monday afternoon, in a neighbourhood described by its residents as peaceful, shocked Muslims and the community at large, prompting firm condemnation from …

The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party told fellow lawmakers on Tuesday that he’ll back an early election, now that the prospect that the country could crash out of the European Union without a deal has been taken off the table. Jeremy Corbyn’s remarks come only hours before Conservative British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to once again ask …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought explanation from the interior ministry for banning Ansarul Islam, the volunteer group of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), without giving it an opportunity of defence. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah after hearing preliminary arguments on a petition put off the matter for Tuesday (today) with a direction, “an authorised representative of the …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif asked party workers on Tuesday to refrain from celebrations and pray for Nawaz Sharif’s health as the Islamabad High Court suspended his prison-sentence for eight weeks. The PML-N president’s statement came after the high court announced its verdict in the Al-Azizia reference earlier today, granting eight-week bail to the former prime minister on …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Monday discussed the issue of appointment of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and decided to call another meeting on Tuesday in the presence of the law minister and the attorney general. The meeting was held at the Parliament House “in the wake of the last …