London / AFP Violence subsided on Sunday in Yemen, a day after the beginning of a 48-hour ceasefire declared by the pro-government Arab coalition battling rebel fighters for almost 20 months. An AFP correspondent in Sanaa said there had not been any air strikes in the rebel-held capital by warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition since the ceasefire entered into ...

  Qabr al Abd / AFP Iraqi civilians who escaped from the IS group stronghold of Mosul said extremists forced them from their villages and drove them “like sheep” to use as human shields. Bashar huddled with his family on the back of an Iraqi security forces pick-up truck after finally fleeing an area of Mosul still held by IS. ...

  Pukhrāyān / AFP Emergency workers raced on Sunday to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian express train that derailed overnight, killing over 100 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country’s ageing rail network in years. Many were sleeping when 14 carriages leapt from the tracks in a remote area of Uttar Pradesh ...

  Mont Pelerin / AFP Rival Cypriot leaders on Sunday resumed UN-backed talks on ending the island’s 42-year-old division, with hopes of breakthrough high but a key territory dispute unsettled. Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Mustafa Akinci were meeting at a luxury hotel in Mont Pelerin, a town on the shores of Lake Geneva, for ...

  Yangon / AFP Eight civilians were killed on Sunday when fighting broke out in a northern Myanmar town on the border with China, a region long plagued by ethnic rebel insurgencies. The latest clashes are another blow to civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s hopes of forging a nationwide peace agreement after years of war in Myanmar’s many ethnic ...

  Bloomberg Airbus Group SE said it’s evaluating the implications of a congressional vote that could block it and Boeing Co. from providing jets to Iran, though hasn’t given up on completing a $27 billion order announced in January. Airbus will wait to see how the US Senate and President Barack Obama respond to the House decision, Claude Brandes, its ...

  DUBAI / Reuters The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on Aug. 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said on Sunday. The crash was the first major accident in Emirates’ more-than-30-year history. All 300 passengers and crew safely evacuated ...

  Bloomberg Alaska Air Group Inc. is close to reaching a settlement with U.S. antitrust officials that will allow it to complete its proposed acquisition of Virgin America Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. The settlement with the Justice Department’s antitrust division should be announced by the end of November, said one of the people. The people declined ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd. is nearing the acquisition of Coca-Cola bottling assets in China from a unit of state-owned food giant Cofco Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said. Swire is close to an agreement to purchase stakes in Coca-Cola bottlers from Cofco’s China Foods Ltd. subsidiary, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

  Bloomberg Market leader Tesco Plc continued to lead a counterattack by Britain’s supermarkets last month as German discounters Aldi and Lidl recorded the slowest sales growth since 2011. Tesco’s sales rose 2.2 percent in the 12 weeks ended November 6, researcher Kantar Worldpanel said. The growth was the fastest in three years and sent the shares up as much ...