ISLAMABAD: Scores have been arrested from Pakistan’s Punjab province following mob attacks on churches and homes belonging to Christians over alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by two members of the minority community, officials said Thursday. Authorities have deployed paramilitary troops to restore order in Faisalabad district’s Jaranwala, where the […]
ROME: Italy’s Coast Guard rescued 57 migrants from two boats that capsized during the night in rough seas south of a tiny Italian island and recovered two bodies, authorities said. In a statement, the coast guard quotes survivors as saying some 30 migrants were missing and it recovered the body […]
BERLIN: At least 19 people have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some buildings to collapse. Authorities in the western county of Euskirchen said Thursday that eight deaths had been reported there […]
