Washington / AFP Barack Obama will this month become the first sitting US president to visit atomic bomb-struck Hiroshima, but the White House said he will not offer an apology for the devastating attack on the Japanese city in 1945. Obama, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will make the deeply symbolic visit on May 27, after attending a …

  Munich / AFP A man killed one person and wounded three others in a knife attack at a German railway station Tuesday that prosecutors said had “an apparent extremist motive”. It is Germany’s third knife attack with an apparent extremist motivation since September. Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old German man who had slashed four people around 5 …

  Islamabad / AP Afghan and international forces freed the kidnapped son of a former Pakistani prime minister during a raid on an Al-Qaeda cell in Afghanistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan said Tuesday, three years after he was kidnapped in a hail of bullets. Ali Haider Gilani, son of Yousaf Raza Gilani, was “released from the terrorists” during the raid in …