Christmas Market Security The European Parliament, which is sitting in Strasbourg this week, was put into lockdown. On the opposite side of the Rhine river German police also tightened border controls, officials said. The Strasbourg prefecture said the gunman was on an intelligence services watchlist. Sources familiar with the police operation said the suspect’s home […]
Trump sees his impeachment as a real threat: Report International oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 7:55 [IST] Washington, Dec 12: US President Donald Trump sees his impeachment as a “real possibility” over finance violations during the 2016 campaign, according to a media report. US President Donald Trump Impeachment talks have ratcheted up […]
A gunman on a security watchlist killed at least two people and wounded at least 11 others near the picturesque Christmas market in the historic French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening before fleeing. With France still on high alert after a wave of attacks commissioned or inspired by Islamic State militants since early 2015, […]
BEIJING: Apple stores in China continued with business as usual Tuesday despite a court-ordered ban on iPhone sales, but the US tech giant faces a growing nationalist backlash over the US-sought arrest of a Huawei executive. According to US chipmaker Qualcomm, which requested the ban, the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court ordered four Apple subsidiaries to […]
SEOUL: Almost four out of 10 South Korean newlyweds had no child as of 2017, a government data showed Tuesday. Among 1.1 million newlywed couples who have been legally married for less than five years as of Nov.1 last year, 414,000 couples, or 37.5 per cent of the total, were childless, according to Statistics Korea. […]
It seems that Imran Khan is on an aggressive posture these days. Probably buoyed by his so-called “googly” on the Kartapur Corridor, and the euphoria of his first 100 days, the Pakistan prime minister seems to be ready to take on a superpower. In an interview to The Washington Post, Khan declared that Pakistan was […]
Can a single tweet make a country’s currency depreciate by 16%? Apparently it did on August 10, when Donald Trump tweeted that US tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium would rise sharply. Amid 36,100 retweets, and calls by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his people to dump foreign assets, the Turkish lira plunged. It’s […]
WASHINGTON: The United States said Tuesday it has addedPakistanto its blacklist of countries that violate religious freedom, ramping up pressure over its treatment of minorities. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had designatedPakistanamong “countries of particular concern” in a congressionally mandated annual report, meaning the US government is obliged to exert pressure to end […]
Kabul: The death toll from a suicide bombing targeting a security forces convoy outside Kabul early Tuesday jumped to 12, officials said, with eight civilians killed in the latest Taliban-claimed attack near the Afghan capital. The car bomb follows a wave of deadly violence against Afghan forces across a year in which insurgents have inflicted […]
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in October, was featured on Tuesday among a group of journalists who were named TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2018. The magazine said these journalists – given the honorific “The Guardians” – helped expose “the manipulation and the abuse of […]
Washington: Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October in the kingdom`s Istanbul consulate, was on Tuesday named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ along with several other journalists. Apart from Khashoggi, the honour was also given to three other journalists — two Reuters scribes Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo jailed in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif’s residence was declared a sub-jail by the Islamabad administration on Monday. The declaration was made to detain Sharif in connection with a National Accountability Bureau (NAB case against him. The house will remain a sub-jail until the conclusion of the National Assembly session, reported Dawn. “In exercise […]
“Clarify?” — yes. “Reassure?” — sure. “Renegotiate?” — no. The European Union (EU reacted in unison on Tuesday to news that British Prime Minister Theresa May was coming to demand changes to the Brexit deal the sides agreed to just two weeks ago after 18 months of painstaking talks. ‘No renegotiation’ “There is no room […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal on Monday, throwing Britain’s plan to leave the European Union into chaos after admitting that she faced a rout. May’s move on the eve of the scheduled parliamentary vote opens up an array of possible outcomes ranging from a disorderly Brexit […]
As UK Prime Minister Theresa May scrambled to contain the fall-out from postponing a key parliamentary vote on Brexit, the criticism from both parliament and the public has been growing louder. Actor Andy Serkis, most famous for playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movies, also joined in and reprised the character to mock […]
BERLIN: Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on a tour of European capitals on Tuesday in a desperate bid to salvage her Brexit deal, a day after delaying a parliamentary vote on the text to avoid a crushing defeat. May had breakfast with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague before heading to […]
Islamabad: Probably for the first time, Pakistan has acknowledged that India has stakes in Afghanistan and its cooperation is necessary for the peace process in the war-torn country. Speaking in the National Assembly on Monday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan alone could not bring peace in Afghanistan as it was a “shared responsibility” […]
CIA picks yet another top woman officer; Beth Kimber to lead agency’s clandestine operations International oi-Shubham Ghosh | Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 16:39 [IST] Washington, Dec 11: The Central Intelligence Agency or CIA – the investigative age, the United States’ civilian foreign intelligence agency, has announced the name of its next head of operations […]
New York City police officers came under heavy criticism after a video of them ripping a baby out of his mother’s arms surfaced on Friday. The incident took place in a social services office in Brooklyn. Jazmine Headley was waiting in line to seek help and was sitting on the floor because all the seats […]
THE HAGUE/BRUSSELS: British Prime Minister Theresa May was making the rounds of European leaders on Tuesday, seeking support for changes to her Brexit deal in a last ditch bid to save it, after calling off a vote that she admitted she was on course to lose. Less than four months until the United Kingdom is […]
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s White House turnover has been the highest in decades, a top historian has said, days after the US President announced that his Chief of Staff John Kelly would be leaving the administration soon. Trump’s White House had the “highest 73 per cent turnover” of top-ranked staff experienced by any recent president, Martha […]
In a bid to boost relations with India, Myanmar will provide visa-on-arrival for Indian tourists, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Tuesday as he began his five-day visit to the country. President Kovind’s visit to Myanmar will continue India’s high level engagements with Myanmar under the rubric of ‘Act East Policy’ and ‘Neighbourhood First Policy.’ […]
Even as the United States and China seek to resolve escalating trade tensions, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called China the “greatest challenge” facing his country; bigger than Russia or Iran. “Over the five, ten, twenty-five year time horizon, just by simple demographics and wealth, as well as by the internal system in […]
70% Yemenis are hungry, 250,000 face catastrophe: UN International pti-PTI | Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 7:34 [IST] United Nations, Dec 11: Twenty million people in war-torn Yemen are hungry — a staggering 70 per cent of the population and a 15 per cent increase from last year — and for the first time 250,000 […]
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Sunday rejected demands to extradite suspects connected to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as sought by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We do not extradite our citizens,” Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh at the end of a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council states.Erdogan has repeatedly called […]