October 22, 2015 - Page 5

The Indian capital held its first “car-free day” Thursday to try to improve New Delhi’s notoriously filthy air, but motorists were seen ignoring signs to keep off the roads. Delhi chief minister

Sweden expects to receive up to 190,000 asylum applications this year, straining the country’s reception capacity with no housing available for up to 45,000 of the recent arrivals, migration authorities said on

Thirty South Africa students were arrested after clashes with police outside parliament, authorities said Thursday, as President Jacob Zuma said he would meet student leaders over rising university fees. Hundreds of students

US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin on Thursday for talks as a flurry of diplomatic activity kicks off in a bid to halt

Two alleged Palestinian attackers were shot west of Jerusalem on Thursday after attempting to board a bus carrying children then stabbing an Israeli, police said. One of the alleged attackers was killed,

French President Francois Hollande on Thursday begins a two-day visit to Athens, bringing badly-needed support to the Greek leftist government during tough talks with EU-IMF auditors. Hollande, who was last in Athens

More than 12,600 migrants arrived in Slovenia over a 24-hour period, police said, a record that surpasses even that in Hungary at the height of the crisis in September. They said that

Commodity-linked currencies rose against the dollar Thursday as oil prices recovered while sentiment got a boost from a positive open on volatile Chinese stock markets. “The strong open of the Chinese markets