India will expel a Pakistani visa official for “espionage activities”, the foreign ministry said Thursday, with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors already running high. India’s foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar summoned Pakistan’s high commissioner to inform him of the decision to expel the consular official, who was briefly detained on Wednesday. ...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday spoke by phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging close cooperation in the fight against the ISIL Takfiri group, the White House said. “Obama noted the need for close coordination between the United States and Turkey to build on these successes and to apply ...