Mexico City: Celeste Saenz de Miera, the head of the Mexican Press Club, called for acting together to protect WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is awaiting a hearing on his extradition to the United States in a UK prison. On Friday, the organization awarded Assange for investigative activities and analysis of the global perspective. Ricardo Patino, the former […]
Kabul: Eighteen militants were killed and four others wounded following an anti-militancy operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province on Friday, the provincial government said. “The raid was launched by Special Operations Police Forces in Muhammad Agha district in the north of provincial capital Pul-e-Alam Friday morning. The slain terrorists were found to be involved in […]
Air strikes and shelling by regime forces killed 10 civilians in Syria’s northwest on Wednesday, as residents marked the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a war monitor said. Two children were among six people killed in regime strikes on the town of Kafr Aweid in the militant-held province of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human […]
United Nations: The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for poorer countries is expected to stabilise in 2020, economic momentum remains weak. The risks to emerge and develop economies include rising trade barriers, slow investment, and economic slowdowns […]
Khartoum: The death toll from the violent dispersal of the sit-in protest here, reached 60, the opposition Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the CCSD reports indicated that the number of those killed in the crackdown, carried out by the military on Monday, rose from 35 to 50. […]
Kabul: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said he has accepted PM Imran’s Khan invitation and will visit Islamabad on June 27 seeking to improve biltareal relations between the two countries. President Ashraf Ghani met Prime Minister Khan on June 1 on the sidelines of the 14th summit of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) […]
Sudanese protesters say at least 35 have been killed after military stormed the main protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, in the worst violence since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, drawing global condemnation. The Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA), which spearheaded nationwide protests that started in December, said Monday’s crackdown amounted to a “bloody massacre”. “We […]
Moscow: The Kremlin insisted Monday that the Russian army was targeting “terrorists” in Syria’s last jihadist stronghold of Idlib, after US President Donald Trump called on Moscow to halt “this butchery.” The Kremlin has been supporting a Syrian government offensive in Idlib despite protests from the United States and Turkey. Trump said on Twitter Sunday that […]
Washington: United States intends to offer Russia a deal, envisaging the recognition of Bashar Assad as a legitimate president of Syria and lifting of sanctions against Damascus in exchange for restraining Iranian influence in the country by Moscow at the upcoming Russia-US-Israel meeting, local media on Monday said. The White House announced last week that […]
London: US President Donald Trump described Pakistani-origin London Mayor Sadiq Khan as “nasty” and a “stone-cold loser” as he landed here on Monday with wife Melanie and an entourage of his family for a three-day state visit hosted by Queen Elizabeth II. Trump will meet members of the Royal Family, and is expected to discuss […]
