Srinagar: Ten children kidnapped in Tanzania have been found dead with their body parts mutilated. Tanzania’s deputy health minister Faustine Ndugulile said all 10 children had been missing since December in Njombe district, southwest Tanzania, CNN reported. Their bodies were discovered last week after police launched a search operation in the area. “So far, we have […]
Washington: The US Justice Department is filing charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei. A 13-count indictment was unsealed Monday in New York charging Huawei, two of its affiliates and a top executive at the company. The charges include bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A separate case […]
Srinagar: The death toll of the collapsed tailings dam in Brazil mounted to 58, local media reported on Sunday. According to the Brazilian media reports, at least 305 others were announced missing following Friday’s deadly incident that took place in the southeastern Minas Gerais state. Search and rescue operations for scores of missing people have resumed […]
Washington: The United States is willing to promote peace in Afghanistan and withdraw its troops from the country, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. “The U.S. is serious about pursuing peace, preventing #Afghanistan from continuing to be a space for international terrorism & bringing forces home. Working with the Afghan gov’t [government] […]
The United States, in recent rounds of dialogue with the Afghan Taliban, has accepted that American troops would soon withdraw from the war-torn country, according to a Tolo News report that cites sources familiar with the ongoing Doha talks. The development came on the fifth day of US-Taliban talks in Qatar on Friday, with discussions set […]
Washington: Submitting to political pressure, President Donald Trump has backed a deal to temporarily end the record-breaking government shutdown in America’s history despite getting no funding for his controversial plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. The deal resolved the crippling 35-day closure but not the fight over his proposed border wall. Trump […]
Srinagar: The Afghan Taliban have appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as the new head of their political office in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar amid reports that the insurgent group is inching towards some kind of deal with the US representative for the region. “The Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan] has appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar […]
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s royal families on Thursday picked a sports-loving sultan as the country’s new king after the last monarch abdicated in a historic first following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen. The previous king, Sultan Muhammad V, stepped aside this month following just two years on the throne after reports surfaced he […]
Srinagar: Police in New York state on Wednesday identified three young men arrested for allegedly planning a “potentially lethal” attack on a Muslim community regularly targeted by US extremist sites. Brian Colaneri, 20, Andrew Crysel, 18 and Vincent Vetromile, 19 were arrested after police in Greece, New York recovered three explosive devices and 23 weapons from […]
Srinagar: The foreign minister of Turkey said on Monday that some Western countries try to ‘cover up’ the murder of the well-known journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi. “We see how those, who speak of freedom of press in the world, cover this thing up when they see money,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told youth conference attendees […]
