PARIS: A knife-wielding man went on the rampage in a park south of Paris on Friday, killing a man out for a walk with his wife and wounding two other people before being shot dead by police, officials said. The Paris police department said the man had attacked “several people” around lunchtime in the park in the suburb of Villejuif. …

QUETTA: Pakistan and Iran will help each other in dealing with the difficulties they face, and take steps for promotion of trade and economic activities between the two countries. This was agreed during the 23rd meeting of the Pak-Iran Joint Border Commission which concluded here on Friday after three days of deliberations. The meeting took various decisions for preventing illegal …

WASHINGTON: A US appeals court on Friday began hearing arguments in a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to block former White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying to a congressional committee as part of the impeachment effort against Trump. The case was being heard by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …

President Donald Trump authorised the resumption of Pakistan’s participation in a US military training and educational programme in order to strengthen military-to-military cooperation on shared priorities and “advance US national security”, senior US diplomat Alice Wells said on Saturday. “The overall security assistance suspension for Pakistan remains in effect,” said a tweet by Wells, the in-charge of South Asia affairs …

BANGALORE: Tens of thousands of people protested across India on Friday against a citizenship law passed by the Hindu nationalist government that critics say discriminates against Muslims. Some 30,000 people marched in the southern city of Bangalore, more than 20,000 in Siliguri and thousands in Chennai, while big rallies were also held in New Delhi, Guwahati and other cities. More …

NEW DELHI: Former Indian foreign secretary and former envoy to Pakistan Shivshankar Menon on Friday said the country faces international isolation over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to segregate people and assign citizenship t them on the basis of religion. His comments came as Home Minister Amit Shah said at a public meeting in Rajasthan that his government would not …

A fresh air strike hit pro-Iran fighters in Iraq early Saturday, as fears grew of a proxy war erupting between Washington and Tehran a day after an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general. The killing of Quds Force commander Maj Gen Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday was the most dramatic escalation yet in spiralling tensions between Iran and the …

Iraqi factions threatening to oust US troops, officials denouncing American “violations” and fears of a new Gulf war: a US strike has catapulted Iraq back to the tumultuous aftermath of the 2003 invasion. The precision drone strike outside Baghdad airport on Friday killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi right-hand-man, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Within hours, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres …

RAWALPINDI: A teenage minor was allegedly sexually assaulted by two people and is being blackmailed by his attackers. Police said that a Kahuta resident reported to the police that his 16-year-old nephew was detained in a closed shop by two individuals who sexually assaulted him. He said they also filmed the boy and threatened to share footage of him on …

  WANA: Six people were killed and two others injured when rival groups clashed over a water dispute in Azam Warsak area of Birmal tehsil of South Waziristan tribal district on Friday. Sources said five of the dead men belonged to one family, while the sixth hailed from the rival family. The injured men were shifted to the Sholam hospital, …