LONDON, Feb 6: An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit.

ALGIERS, Feb 6: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors.

Israeli-Palestinian violence rises after Trump peace plan

Published On: February 6, 2020 07:45 PM NPT By: Reuters

JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb 6: At least two Palestinians were killed and 15 Israelis were hurt on Thursday in a string of incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where violence has risen after the U.S. announcement of its Middle East peace plan.

BEIJING, Feb 6: China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people’s lives and fueling economic fears.

Modi says Indian Muslims had nothing to fear in new law

Published On: February 6, 2020 06:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press

NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Parliament on Thursday that Indian Muslims had nothing to fear from a new citizenship law and accused opposition parties of toeing rival Pakistan’s propaganda to create fear.

BMW raises electric car components capacity at Bavarian plant

Published On: February 6, 2020 04:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

MUNICH, Feb 6: BMW will increase its capacities for producing drivetrain components for electric cars at its key Dingolfing plant, a spokesman for the luxury automaker told Reuters on Thursday.

Not a break, but fissures in US-Iraqi military alliance

Published On: February 6, 2020 03:32 PM NPT By: Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Feb 6:  A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of concrete to reinforce the barricades in beefed-up protections. The danger, soldiers there said, came not from the constellation of militant sleeper cells embedded in the landscape but further afield in Iran.

TAIPEI, Feb 6: China is providing the World Health Organization (WHO) with wrong information about the number of coronavirus cases in Taiwan, the island’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the WHO published incorrect case numbers earlier this week.

BUCHAN, AUSTRALIA, Feb 6: It was an inevitability, thought Australian cattle farmer Donald Graham and his wife Bronwyn, that bushfires would one day tear through the bushland that surrounded their home, a remote property overlooking the Snowy River National Park.

Nokia posts surprise quarterly profit rise on cost cuts

Published On: February 6, 2020 01:03 PM NPT By: Reuters

HELSINKI, Feb 6: Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia (NOKIA.HE) reported on Thursday a surprise rise in October-December underlying profit, driven by cost cuts, and said most of its 2020 profit will be generated in the fourth quarter.