the newly elected pakistan prime minister imran khan has announced that the government will begin an austerity drive to tackle the country s debt in his maiden t.v. speech after becoming prime minister khan also promised to introduce an islamic welfare system to resist poverty. millions of muslims have begun the annual hodge pilgrimage to mecca in saudi arabia over the next few days pilgrims will perform a number of rituals including climbing mount arafat and the symbolic stoning of the devil the hodges one of the world s biggest gatherings. and dozens of elderly south koreans are heading to where unions with family members in north korea as part of a recent thaw in relations between the two countries across border meetings are the first in pretty years they bring together families divided by the korean war. well least a dozen people have been killed in the indonesian islands of lombok and so after