United Nations, The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that stressed no military activity should occur in the de-militarised zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights amid the UN peacekeepers’ return to the area. Through Resolution 2450, the Security Council on Friday stressed the obligation on Syria and[Read More…]
Washington: The US has told Islamabad and other regional partners that state support for terrorist proxies will not be tolerated, expressing concern over the freedom of movement of militant groups like the Taliban and the Haqqani network in Pakistan that pose security threats to Afghanistan, according to a Department of[Read More…]
Tokyo: Nissan Motor Co.’s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn was re-arrested on Friday on fresh charges that he shifted personal losses onto the company, dashing hopes he could be released on bail. According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, prosecutors now suspect that in October 2008, in the midst of the global financial[Read More…]
Beijing: China on Friday strongly denied cyber attack charges by the US and its allies, accusing Washington of making “unfounded” allegations that the Chinese government was behind global hacking. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying asked the US to withdraw the accusations “as soon as possible” and not to prosecute suspected[Read More…]
Washington: US Defence Secretary James Mattis has announced that he would resign at the end of February due to differences with Donald Trump over the withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan, saying in a parting letter that the President deserves someone atop the Pentagon “better aligned” with his views.[Read More…]
According to a new report by Reprieve, a U.K. human rights group, the death rate in Saudi Arabia doubled during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first eight months in power. Reprieve said that the number of people executed have doubled. There were 133 executions in the kingdom between June 2017 and March 2018,[Read More…]
Tokyo: Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn was re-arrested on Friday on fresh charges, Japanese media reported. It came a day after courts surprised observers by paving the way for his release on bail. Friday’s arrest came on a new charge of aggravated breach of trust, media reports said. According to[Read More…]
Washington, The Donald Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, the US media reported. Reports, citing unnamed officials, said about 7,000 troops — roughly half the remaining US military presence in the country — could go home within months. The Washington Post reported on Thursday the[Read More…]
Beijing, Chinese State Councillor and Minister of National Defence Wei Fenghe has met Deputy Defence Minister of Russia and Chief of Main Directorate for Political-Military Affairs of the Russian Armed Forces Andrey Kartapolov in Beijing. The meeting took place on Thursday. Wei spoke highly of recent exchanges and cooperation between[Read More…]
Washington, The Donald Trump-led US administration is considering a substantial reduction of US troops in Afghanistan, the media reported. Officials said that US troop reduction in Afghanistan could begin in next several weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Trump said last year that a rapid exit of the[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Actress Sandra Bullock feels lucky to live in a moment where she can choose how her family looks like. “We’re very lucky that we get to live in this moment in time where we get to choose what our family looks like, and I got to do that[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump has said Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is to retire at the end of February. Mattis will “be retiring, with distinction”, after having served the administration as the defence chief for the past two years, Trump tweeted on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. “During Jim’s tenure,[Read More…]
Los Angeles, NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian[Read More…]
Beirut, Hezbollah’s Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has said resistance is the only way to confront Israel’s aggression and violations in the region. “When the resistance and its people and its will are present, Israel cannot achieve its goals in the region and it cannot exist among us in the[Read More…]
Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he held a phone call with US President Donald Trump over Iranian military’s presence in Syria. The call came a day after Trump announced the US decision to withdraw forces from the war-torn country as the Islamic State (IS) militant group had[Read More…]
Washington ,Former US President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to the Children’s National Medical Center here, bringing with him a sack of presents for the young patients. The 44th President was given a rock star’s entrance as he entered the hospital, with his swagger giving way to dance moves as[Read More…]
Berlin, German news magazine “Der Spiegel” has sacked an award-winning staff writer after accusing him of inventing details and quotes in numerous stories. Der Spiegel said Claas Relotius’s actions were committed “intentionally” and “methodically”. An investigation into a story by Relotius about immigration and the US-Mexican border revealed that he[Read More…]
Washington: Washington DC’s top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post. It accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping[Read More…]
Brasilia: The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court has revoked a ruling made hours earlier by one of his colleagues that could have led to the release from prison of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Jose Antonio Dias Toffoli issued the judgment on Wednesday in response to a[Read More…]
Washington: The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing any detailed timetable. “We have started returning US home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign,”[Read More…]
New York: The US dollar dipped as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point, paring some of the sharp losses of the greenback in the previous sessions. Following the Fed’s decision to raise its benchmark overnight lending rate, the greenback extended gains but still settled at a[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Penny Marshall, star of US TV series “Laverne and Shirley” and director of hit films “Big” and “A League of Their Own”, has died at the age of 75, her publicist has said. She was 75. Marshall died of complications from diabetes on Monday at her home in[Read More…]
Washington, Former US President George H.W. Bush, who passed away in November, has sponsored a seven-year-old boy in the Philippines for 10 years under a pseudonym, a nonp-rofit who connected them has revealed. Through Compassion International that uses churches to help children in poor communities around the world, Bush sponsored[Read More…]
United Nations, Outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has come under heavy criticism from Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN Riyad Mansour for her hostility towards the Palestinian people. Haley, who is stepping down December end, gave her last statement on the Israel-Palestinian issue asking both sides[Read More…]
United Nations, Late lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir has been awarded the UN Human Rights Prize for 2018. Her daughter Munizae Jahangir received the prestigious award on behalf of her mother. The award is given to individuals and organisations in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights. Asma[Read More…]
