European Police Office

Four Pakistani nationals have been arrested in Nepal for taking hostage four Sri Lankan citizens on the pretext of sending them to different European countries for jobs, a senior police officer said on Friday.

Asian stocks deepened losses and the Japanese yen strengthened against the greenback on Friday as investors dumped riskier assets and fled to safe havens after four police officers were killed and others wounded in the United States.

Hopes for a year less defined by international terrorism threats were dashed Monday by the European law enforcement agency, which warned that there was "every reason" to expect attacks in Europe.

Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, Egypt's state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.

European Union's plans to tackle the worst migrant crisis since World War II include a push to tighten external border controls and moves to increase aid to refugees outside the bloc.

A two-month-old baby from a family of refugees died Saturday on the Greek island of Agathonisi, a police source said, as riot officers clashed with migrants on the island of Lesbos.

Special police units pulled out of the northern Macedonian town early Monday where 22 people, including eight officers, were killed over the weekend in worst violence in the country since its 2001 inter-ethnic conflict.

The EU said it was "deeply concerned" over events unfolding in crisis-hit Macedonia following deadly clashes that killed six police officers and an unknown number of unidentified gunmen.

Twenty-two satellite phones were seized from a group of European tourists in northern West Bengal's Jalpiguri district on Saturday, a police officer said.

Twenty people including three police officers needed hospital treatment in Bulgaria after long-running protests against the government in the EU's poorest country turned violent overnight, medical sources said on Wednesday.

Four Pakistani nationals have been arrested in Nepal for taking hostage four Sri Lankan citizens on the pretext of sending them to different European countries for jobs, a senior police officer said on Friday.

Asian stocks deepened losses and the Japanese yen strengthened against the greenback on Friday as investors dumped riskier assets and fled to safe havens after four police officers were killed and others wounded in the United States.

Hopes for a year less defined by international terrorism threats were dashed Monday by the European law enforcement agency, which warned that there was "every reason" to expect attacks in Europe.

Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, Egypt's state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.

European Union's plans to tackle the worst migrant crisis since World War II include a push to tighten external border controls and moves to increase aid to refugees outside the bloc.

A two-month-old baby from a family of refugees died Saturday on the Greek island of Agathonisi, a police source said, as riot officers clashed with migrants on the island of Lesbos.

Special police units pulled out of the northern Macedonian town early Monday where 22 people, including eight officers, were killed over the weekend in worst violence in the country since its 2001 inter-ethnic conflict.

The EU said it was "deeply concerned" over events unfolding in crisis-hit Macedonia following deadly clashes that killed six police officers and an unknown number of unidentified gunmen.

Twenty-two satellite phones were seized from a group of European tourists in northern West Bengal's Jalpiguri district on Saturday, a police officer said.

Twenty people including three police officers needed hospital treatment in Bulgaria after long-running protests against the government in the EU's poorest country turned violent overnight, medical sources said on Wednesday.