PM: UK ‘will deliver’ on migration controls
Paris: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday said she was committed to obtaining restrictions on EU migration in her negotiations with the union on leaving the bloc.
Five charged over France truck attack
Paris: Five suspects have been formally charged over the truck attack in the French Riveria city of Nice that killed 84 people, the Paris prosecutor has said. Mohamed lahouaiej Bouhlel, who mowed down crowds of people enjoying a Bastille Day fireworks display, had long plotted the carnage, prosecutor Francois Molins said.
Greece lowers voting age to 17
Athens: Greek lawmakers voted to amend electoral law to lower the voting age by a year to 17 and eventually eliminate a 50-seat bonus for the winning party. While the drop in voting age will take effect in the next election, the seat bonus will only be scrapped in two elections from now.
Waiting for the day the Kashmir becomes part of Pak: Sharif
Islamabad: Pakistan is waiting for the day Kashmir becomes its part, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday after his party PMl-N swept PoK’s legislative assembly elections. Addressing a public gathering in Muzaffarabad, Sharif said, “We are waiting for the day Kashmir becomes (part of) Pakistan.” In his first public address, Sharif urged Kashmiris “not to forget those in Kashmir who are sacrificing their lives for their movement for freedom”.