New Delhi / AFP India announced on Thursday it was expelling a Pakistani visa official for suspected spying after he was briefly detained carrying sensitive defence documents, with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours already running high. New Delhi police said the official had been recruiting Indian nationals for two and a half years to spy for Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence …

  Brussels / AFP The European Union begun training the Libyan coast guard as part of efforts to curb the growing influx of irregular migrants from North Africa, EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said on Thursday. “Today we are starting the training of the Libyan coast guard in Operation Sophia which is a very important step,” Mogherini said as she …

  London / AFP The British pound rallied briefly on Thursday on brighter-than-expected economic growth data, while European stock markets sagged amid a dearth of eurozone news. Sterling bounced after official data showed that Britain’s economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.5 percent in the three months following the country’s refere- ndum in favour of exiting the European Union. The currency …