India should learn lessons from its defeat in 1962 and stop clamouring for a war, China warned on Thursday, saying the precondition for settling the current stand-off in the Sikkim sector is that New Delhi withdraws its troops immediately. China said its troops were building a road in its own territory and not on land that belonged to Bhutan. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) spokesperson Wu Qian was reacting to Indian […]

  Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his “dying a lonely death”. “If you want Warren Weinstein to be released, do whatever you can to pressurize your government,” it said in a statement posted this week on Islamist websites. Weinstein, a development expert who had lived in Lahore since […]

WHO called for more preventative measures against infection. Resistance to antibiotics poses a “major global threat” to public health, says a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). It analysed data from 114 countries and said resistance was happening now “in every region of the world”. It described a “post-antibiotic era”, where people die from simple infections that have been treatable for decades. There were likely to be “devastating” […]