International Glance
A drone strike, the first since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's recent U.S. visit, killed three suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal area, sources told Dawn.
The newspaper said the strike late Wednesday targeted a compound near Miramshah Bazaar in North Waziristan, and that three more people were injured.
The strikes come on the same day when the Pakistani government released a report on the number of civilian deaths that was sharply down from its earlier estimates.
Three suspected militants reported killed in Pakistan drone strike
Israel approves new East Jerusalem settlement homes
Israel has announced plans to build new homes in a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, hours after freeing 26 Palestinian prisoners.
Officials said the construction of 1,500 housing units at Ramat Shlomo was one of four projects given approval.
The Palestinian Authority said the move was "destructive to peace efforts".
It is believed to be an attempt by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assuage anger in Israel at the release of the long-term prisoners overnight.
U.K., Germany battered by wind storm that has left 13 dead
The death toll from a severe storm that ripped across Britain and onto mainland Europe has risen to 13, with the U.K. and Germany hit the hardest.
Hurricane-force gusts knocked down trees, flooded low areas, left hundreds of thousands without power and snarled transportation networks across the region.
U.K. officials reported at least five deaths. Four people were killed Monday in Germany, adding to two deaths at sea off the German coast Sunday.
Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month
The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has summoned the US ambassador to explain the latest revelations to emerge from the files leaked by Edward Snowden, which suggest the National Security Agency tracked more than 60m phone calls in Spain in the space of a month.
Spain's European secretary of state, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, is meeting James Costos as the White House struggles to contain a growing diplomatic crisis following accusations that the NSA monitored the phones of scores of allies, including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
Car bombs kill at least 56 people in Iraq
A new wave of car bombs hit Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and a suicide bomber targeted soldiers in a northern city in attacks that killed at least 56 across Iraq on Sunday, officials said.
Coordinated bombing onslaughts killing scores of people have hit Iraq multiple times each month, feeding a spike in bloodshed that has left over 5,000 since April. The local branch of al-Qaida often takes responsibility, although there was no immediate claim for Sunday's blasts.
Mount Etna eruption lights up Sicilian sky
An eruption by Europe's most active volcano has sent a tower of sparks and fire into the sky around it.
The plume of ash rising from Mount Etna can be seen across much of eastern Sicily. Its eruptions are not infrequent, but the last major one occurred in 1992.
United States tracked Merkel's phone since 2002 - report
Germany's outrage over reports of bugging of Merkel's phone by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) prompted it to summon the U.S. ambassador this week for the first time in living memory, an unprecedented post-war diplomatic rift.
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