ISLAMABAD: Fata mem­bers of the National Assembly have reached a consensus on the name of a PML-N-backed candidate for the Senate elections, but they are still divided over the names of two other candidates. The lawmakers from Fata accepted PML-N candidate Shamim Afridi’s name for the election to the upper …

BAKU: Twenty-five people perished in a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early on Friday, with activists saying safety standards had not been met. Footage broadcast on local television showed huge flames leaping through barred windows of a one-storey wooden hospital ward. It …

JERUSALEM: Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Friday for the first time in a corruption case that involves the country’s largest telecommunications company, Israel Radio said. Police confirmed that an anti-corruption unit had questioned the couple for several hours each, but did not say …