Washington: President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that anyone trading with Iran will not be allowed to do business with the United States hereafter following the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran. “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,” Trump said in a tweet. The sanctions follow the […]
Islamabad: ) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Monday named its chairman Imran Khan as the candidate for the office of the prime minister. At a meeting of elected members of the National Assembly here, party vice president Shah Mehmood Qureshi moved the resolution nominating Khan as PTI’s candidate for the country’s top office, which was accepted. The […]
Jakarta: At least 91 people were killed and over 200 others injured as a powerful earthquake measuring 7 point 0 on Richter scale rocked Indonesian island of Lombok, a government official said on Monday. Most of the victims were on the northern side of Lombok, near the epicenter of the 6.9 magnitude quake that hit […]
BEIJING/SINGAPORE: China’s state media said on Saturday the government’s retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods showed rational restraint and they accused the United States of blackmail. Late on Friday, China’s finance ministry unveiled new sets of additional tariffs on 5,207 goods imported from the United States, with the extra levies ranging from five […]
Kabul: Around 51 Talibani insurgents, including its three top commanders, were killed and six others injured in the ongoing combat operations in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan. The Khaama Press said, quoting a statement by the Silab Corps of the Afghan Military, that the militants were killed or wounded during the ongoing operations — kicked […]
KABUL: A suicide bomber attacked a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing 25 people and wounding 40, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but police said at least two men had entered the mosque in the city of Gardez in the province of Paktia where about […]
GENEVA,: Yemen may be on the brink of a new wave of cholera, with a heightened death rate because of widespread malnutrition, and the United Nations is hoping for a ceasefire in northern Yemen to allow for vaccination, the World Health Organization said on Friday. “We’re calling on all parties to the conflict … for […]
SEOUL,: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he looked forward to meeting Kim Jong Un soon and thanked the North Korean leader for sending the suspected remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War back to the United States. “Thank you to Chairman Kim Jong Un for keeping your word & starting […]
BEIJING: Reports that Alphabet Inc’s Google may return to the Chinese market are not true, state-owned China Securities Daily reported on Thursday, citing information from “relevant departments”. The Intercept, citing internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans, reported on Wednesday that the search firm is planning a censored version of its search engine […]
New Delhi/Washington: Prominent Lashkar e Taiba militant and a former commander in Jammu and Kashmir region Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil has been designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the United States. The list under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224 of the United States imposes sanctions on “foreign persons, who have committed, or […]
