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An Indian nun, center, with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity hides her face as she sits outside a court under police protection before a hearing on child trafficking charges in Ranchi, in India’s eastern Jharkhand state, in this July 5, 2018 file photo. — AFP

, July 17, 2018

India orders inspection of all Mother Teresa care centers

NEW DELHI — India has ordered an immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by a religious order founded by Mother Teresa after a nun was arrested over an alleged adoption racket.Illegal adoption is big business in India with over 100,000 children reported missing every year, the government says. Many are given up by desperately poor parents but others are snatched from hospitals and train stations.Police earlier this month arrested ...

, July 17, 2018

Controversy as Spain’s ex-king accused of getting tax amnesty

MADRID — Spain’s prime minister said on Tuesday he could not reveal who got a tax amnesty six years ago after the former mistress of Spain’s ex-king Juan Carlos alleged he benefited from the measure.Far-left party Podemos had asked Pedro Sanchez to make public the names of those who benefited from an amnesty which the then conservative government implemented in 2012 during the economic crisis to collect money and reduce ...

Gopal Chandra Das, left, and Radhika Das, right, parents of lynching victim Nilotpal Das, speak to journalists at their residence in Guwahati, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Assam, in this July 9, 2018 file photo. — AFP

, July 17, 2018

India’s top court demands govt act to stop lynchings

NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called “horrendous acts” of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year.Since February the country has seen a spate of mob lynchings, often in isolated areas where outsiders have been accused of child kidnapping and other crimes following fake rumors spread via WhatsApp.The latest incident saw a ...

, July 17, 2018

Bangladesh’s drug war death toll rises to 200: Rights group

DHAKA — The death toll from Bangladesh’s contentious Philippines-style war on drugs since May has hit 200, a local rights group said on Tuesday, with some 25,000 others imprisoned.Bangladesh launched the crackdown to smash the surging trade in “yaba”, a cheap methamphetamine and caffeine pill, which authorities say has spread to almost every village and town.Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the “war” will last until the narcotics trade is ...

A file court sketch made on Oct. 7, 2014 shows Djamel Beghal during his appeal trial at the Paris courthouse. Djamel Beghal, known as the mentor of the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, the authors of the Paris terror attacks in January 2015, was deported to Algeria after his release from the Rennes-Vezin prison on Monday. — AFP

, July 17, 2018

Terror 'mentor' expelled from France faces retrial in Algeria

ALGIERS — A radical preacher, who became a mentor to at least two militants who carried out attacks in France, will be retried in Algeria after he was expelled Monday from France, state media in Algiers said.Djamel Beghal was given a 10-year jail term in 2005 after being sent to France following his arrest in the United Arab Emirates shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US.France ...

Syrian rebels fire rockets and artillery shells during clashes with regime forces advancing toward the town of Al-Hara in the southern Syrian Daraa province, Monday. — AFP

, July 17, 2018

Airstrikes on Syrian area near Golan kill 7 civilians

BEIRUT — Airstrikes on Tuesday killed seven civilians in a sensitive southwestern province of Syria bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a war monitor said.The Damascus regime has been pounding Quneitra since Sunday in a bid to retake the southwestern province from rebels, after winning back most of the neighboring governorate of Daraa in less than a month."Six civilians including two women and three children were killed in air strikes near ...

Palestinian children queue up before the early start of classes at a school in the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, during the Palestinian Prime Minister's visit to the village this week. — AFP

, July 17, 2018

Palestinian pupils scrap school holidays to save village

By Clothilde MraffkoKHAN Al-AHMAR, Palestinian Territories — Under the sun's harsh glare, dozens of students sing the Palestinian national anthem — beginning a new school year early as part of efforts to keep their village from being demolished.The students of Khan Al-Ahmar went back to their village school in the occupied West Bank on Monday, while Israeli authorities seek to evict them."We are starting the school year earlier because the ...

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, July 17, 2018

Turkey plans post-emergency measures

ANKARA — The Turkish government has prepared a draft for the period after the state of emergency is lifted and sent it to the parliament speaker’s office to present to parliament for approval.Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) group deputy chair Bülent Turan told reporters on Monday that the state of emergency in Turkey, which was put into effect in the wake of the defeated coup attempt on July 15, ...

Russian tourists are seen shopping at the old medina in Sousse, Tunisia. — Reuters

, July 17, 2018

Tunisia sees tourism take off after terror fears

TUNIS — Holidaymakers are returning to the Tunisian seaside this summer in a marked turnaround three years since dozens of tourists were killed on one of the country's beaches.Relaxing by the pool, Steve was thrilled with the affordability of his 10-day break."The same price I (would) stay for four days in Paris or Amsterdam. It's cheaper to be here. You have got everything," said the IT engineer, holidaying in Tunisia's ...

, July 17, 2018

Iran moves ICJ over renewed US curbs

TEHRAN — Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice against the United States' reimposition of sanctions, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.The complaint was registered the previous day, spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on the ministry's website.The goal is "to hold (the) US accountable for its unlawful re-imposition of unilateral sanctions," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter."Iran is committed to the rule of law in ...