LONDON – British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London yesterday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
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KABUL – Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, yesterday setting off explosions and battling the security forces.
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ISTANBUL – Syria’s fractious opposition scrambled to agree a new leadership yesterday in a bid to present a coherent front at peace talks which the United States and Russia are convening to seek an end to more than two years of civil war.
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WASHINGTON – Twelve years after the “war on terror” began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants.
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LONDON – A British Airways plane with 80 people on board made an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow airport yesterday after the right engine burst into flames shortly after take-off and the casing ripped away from the left.
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TEL AVIV – Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.
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TEL AVIV – The United States yesterday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticising the disqualification of candidates and accusing Tehran of disrupting Internet access.
