Juba / AFP The freed son of a former Pakistani premier reunited with his family in a shower of rose petals in Lahore on Wednesday, three years after he was kidnapped then taken to Afghanistan. Ali Haider Gilani, son of Yousaf Raza Gilani, was rescued during a counter-terror raid by US and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. Crowds …

  London / AFP Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that he did not want an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron for calling his country “fantastically corrupt”, but said Britain could return assets stolen by officials who fled to London. “I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of …

  Baghdad / AFP Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a huge blast at a market in a Shiite area, killed at least 86 people on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year. The attacks, the deadliest of which was claimed by the IS group, came with the government locked in a political crisis that some have …