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Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad.

As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide crackdown on foreigners the Pakistani government says are living in the country illegally. But the only heat he feels is from the kitchen.

“I have been here for almost 50 years. I got married here, so did my children, and 10 of my family members are buried here….

Beirut, Lebanon – Pressure on Hezbollah to disarm is intensifying, spearheaded by the United States and backed by some Lebanese factions.

An Israeli war on Lebanon that killed much of the group’s top leadership last year – as well as hundreds of civilians, including at least 200 children – left the group reeling and was compounded by the fall of an ally, Bashar al-Assad’s regime in neighbouring Syria.

Hezbollah’s opponents are now taking advantage of these…

Judges also order jailing of Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife, in the same case but she flees to Brazil with her son.

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering $3m received from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and $200,000 from the government of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Humala, 62, was taken into custody after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday and later jailed at a police station, but…

As US President Donald Trump hosted his El Salvador counterpart, Nayib Bukele, on Monday, much of the public part of their conversation and their media engagement revolved around shipping prisoners from the United States to the Central American nation.

El Salvador has already taken in hundreds of Venezuelans and Salvadorans deported by the Trump administration as part of a deal. They include Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was deported by the Trump administration last month by…

London (Quds News Network)- Israel’s Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, met with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Tuesday in an unannounced visit to London, as Israel intensifies its assault on the Gaza Strip. Sa’ar, a staunch opponent of Palestinian statehood, has consistently rejected ceasefires in Gaza and the two-state solution, opposing any political settlement with the Palestinians.

Sa’ar met the British foreign secretary in London on Tuesday in a private meeting,…