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European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to set up a naval mission in the Mediterranean to target gangs smuggling people from lawless Libya to Europe. The EU’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the decision taken at a meeting of foreign and defense ministers in Brussels would “disrupt the business model of smugglers and traffickers networks in Mediterranean.” The ...

The United States is “deeply concerned” about an Egyptian court decision to seek the death penalty for former President Mohamed Mursi, a State Department official saidon Sunday.  The US criticism follows condemnations from Amnesty International and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan after the court ruling on Saturday against the deposed president and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass ...

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi waves as he enters for his trial with other Muslim Brotherhood members at a court in the outskirts of Cairo, May 16. Reuters An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi and 106 other supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jailbreak in 2011. Mursi and ...

A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 died in a devastating quake. At least 37 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured, officials say. The latest earthquake hit near the town of Namche Bazaar and sent thousands of panicked residents on to the streets on the capital, Kathmandu. It ...

The jailing of a well-known campaigner against the death penalty and a sharp rise in executions has once again put Iran’s poor human rights record in the spotlight. Why has President Hassan Rouhani and his team failed to meet hopes for reform at home despite making gains on the international stage? “They took my mummy to Evin prison again,” says ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first visit to Russia since the Ukraine crisis began in early 2014. Mr Putin’s spokesman called the visit a “positive step” and said the Russian leader was prepared for “extensive” discussions at the meeting in Sochi. Mr Kerry was first meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei ...

A new study has suggested that world’s population-food supply balance is becoming increasingly unstable. The study conducted by University of Virginia reported that as the world population increases and food demand has grown, globalization of trade has made the food supply more sensitive to environmental and market fluctuations and this leads to greater chances of food crises, particularly in nations ...

Cornell McClellan, Michelle Obama’s personal trainer for the past 18 years, has revealed how the first lady maintains her fitness. McClellan, who also trains POTUS as well said at an event that, it seems that the older they get, the more consistent they need to be and the duo have aged in the past six years, they have gotten more ...

Four out of the 48 self-driving cars on public roads in California have been involved in accidents in the last eight months, according to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency began issuing permits for the testing of autonomous vehicles in September 2014. Three of the four cars belonged to Google, the fourth to parts supplier Delphi. Both firms ...

A statement from the home ministry put the number of injured at 17,866. The April 25 quake, the worst to hit Nepal after 1934, led to widespread destruction across the country. Kathmandu alone accounts for 1,222 fatalities. Of these, the bodies of 1,200 victims have been handed over to their relatives. The remaining 22 bodies are yet to be identified. ...