World in brief: November 19, 2024
PAKISTAN: Police arrested a man accused of insulting the Koran in the deeply the conservative north-west today after being alerted that a mob wanted to lynch him.
The man, identified as Humayun Ullah, was arrested in Khazana, an area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police officer Nasir Khan said.
ITALY: Far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic Party won a tight contest in the central Umbria region and tightened its control of the traditional left stronghold of Emilia-Romagna in the north.
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