The boat is believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.
Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan, under house arrest for the past four years, on Tuesday claimed he was being "persecuted for the sake of one man", an apparent reference to President Pervez Musharraf. Khan, who had confessed in 2004 to passing on nuclear technology and equipment to North Korea, Iran and Libya, said he wanted to be free to meet his relatives and to travel within the country.
Every Saturday, Alex Assali cooks hot meals, which he distributes free to the homeless outside Berlin's Alexanderplatz station.
Pakistan's Khan Research Laboratories, which was founded by nuclear scientist A Q Khan, had clandestinely supplied centrifuge components to a nuclear plant intended to be installed in Libya, a new book has claimed.
The US authorities are checking people's social media accounts for their political views before allowing them into the country after the recent travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, a media report said.
"This is a film and films often take liberties with actual events, facts. This particular film has also taken artistic liberties in the depiction of the events as it actually happened in Kuwait in 1990," MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
The country's second-largest government-owned oil and gas exploration company Oil India has qualified as a non-operator in the latest round of oil blocks auction in Libya.
The Saudi and Iraq offer to replace Iranian crude supplies comes with a catch: Higher prices for the same quality of crude. The new government will face a tough decision over fuel price hike, says Aveek Sen.
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Six Bulgarian medics returned home free, amidst tears and hugs, after eight years imprisonment in Libya.
Violence against journalists took centre stage in 2014 with 66 reporters killed, says a report by Reporters Without Borders. While number of deaths may have fallen, violence against reporters has become more savage, and kidnappings have skyrocketed, the report says.
With External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee set to visit Iran on February 6, there will be more than one pair of eyes watching the visit closely.
The US sportswear group will still sponsor the Italian giants despite their demotion to Italian football's second division.
The new executive order, which will come into force on March 16, covers people from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen.
Russian authorities on Wednesday resumed search operation for 10 missing sailors, including four Indians.
The Supreme Court is currently not in session, but can take emergency cases.
As India's international role expands, so must our capabilities, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
'If he looked at it purely as an Islamic bomb, he would not have sold the nuclear secrets to North Korea. Khan was fighting the West, through North Korea, Iran and Libya,'\nsays Gordon Corera.
In other European football action Real Madrid were left frustrated after a goalless draw against Athletic Bilbao in their La Liga match on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at airports across the US to protest the ban announced by President Donald Trump on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, extending solidarity to those affected as chaos and fear gripped individuals trying to enter the country.
Top seed Veselin Topalov's winning spree was halted by GM Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia in the World Chess Championship.
PepsiCo head Indra Nooyi believes so but we want to know what you think.
Flying high on the government's initiative for Oil India Ltd's global foray into exploration and production activities, the company will invest around $150 million in the coming fiscal
In daring raids, US commandos have captured a fugitive al-Qaeda leader from the streets of Libya and raided the seaside villa of an al-Shabaab militant in Somalia, signalling America's determination to pursue dreaded terrorists abroad.
Aizaz Jafri operates a licensed posh entertainment spot called 'Hot Shots' in Islamabad and always boasted of close contacts with Khan.
Tunisia is on a manhunt for the third attacker in the Bardo Museum in Tunis last week that left more than 20 people dead.
But David Kay, who quit as chief weapons inspector, cleared the White House of using US intelligence agencies to build a case for war by creating a false impression of Saddam's WMD.
The Pakistani president in an interview with NBC disagreed that the pardon was a complete 'whitewash'.
The father of the country's nuclear bomb had on Wednesday admitted leaking nuclear technology.
Both Musharraf and Jamali have refuted speculation that the country's nuclear programme would be capped as a result of the international concern over the charges of proliferation of nuclear technology.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that Trump is concerned about America's safety.
OPEC agrees to keep pumping as oil glut fears persist.
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