The World this week
Pakistan refused entry and sent back 30 deportees who were among 49 migrants sent by Greece on a chartered flight to Islamabad, a week after high-level talks with the EU to settle the vexed issue of forced repatriations (Photo: AFP)- The Israeli military said it would begin enlisting soldiers who are HIV-positive, in a policy shift putting the country at the forefront of military inclusivity toward people with the virus that causes AIDS (Photo: AP)
- Assailants attacked a Cairo nightclub with petrol bombs, killing at least 16 people in the ensuing blaze, following an apparent dispute with the staff, the interior ministry said (Photo: AFP)
- Two incidents of bomb scares led to evacuations across different parts of London though they later turned out to be hoaxes (Photo: AP)
- La Bonne Biere, a corner cafe in the trendy central Paris district targeted by the gunmen, opened for business again. Since the attacks, the shuttered cafe has been piled high with flowers, like the other sites of the Nov. 13 attacks that left 130
- India has expressed satisfaction with the first draft of the climate change accord released in Paris with the new document retaining all its inputs as negotiators made 'some progress' in hammering out a deal (Photo: AP)
- The acting UN disarmament chief says a team seeking to assign blame for chemical attacks in Syria's civil war will make its first trip to Damascus very soon' (Photo: AP)
- Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of murder after South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal threw out a manslaughter conviction for killing his girlfriend, and he now faces a 15-year prison term (Photo: AP)
- Aid workers in war-torn South Sudan have reached one of the worst hit areas where thousands are feared dying of starvation, the United Nations said but warned conditions may yet worsen (Photo: AFP)
- A man and a woman suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at a centre for the disabled in California were killed in a shootout with police, while a third person was detained, say police. Twelve pipe bomb-like devices and thousands of rounds of
- Families of victims killed during an explosion at a 'colour party' in Taiwan that left 15 dead and hundreds injured are calling for the event organiser to receive a stiff sentence, as a procedural hearing opened in Taipei (Photo: AP)
- The printer of the International New York Times in Thailand refused to print an article portraying a gloomy outlook for the country, leaving in its place a large blank space at the center of front page (Photo: AP)
- Radiation from Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, say scientists (Photo: AP)
- A fault with the rudder control system was a major factor in the December AirAsia plane crash into the Java Sea that left 162 people dead, say Indonesian investigators (Photo: AP)
- Pakistan hanged four Taliban militants involved in the country's deadliest terror attack at an army-run school in Peshawar that killed over 150 people, mostly children, days after their appeals were rejected with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif saying
Pakistan refused entry and sent back 30 deportees who were among 49 migrants sent by Greece on a chartered flight to Islamabad, a week after high-level talks with the EU to settle the vexed issue of forced repatriations (Photo: AFP)
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