Category: World

BEIJING: China on Thursday reiterated its pledge to further widen market access for foreign capital and lower non-tariff trade barriers, as it aims to boost flagging trade amid a slowing economy and a trade war with the US. In a lengthy document that laid out areas for improvement, the State Council, the country’s cabinet, said […]

President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America’s longest war. Trump’s visit was his first to Afghanistan since becoming president and came a week after a prisoner swap between Washington and Kabul that has raised […]

Hong Kong police reopened public access to a university campus on Friday after blocking it for 12 days to try to arrest anti-government protesters holed up inside. A cordon around the university has been lifted and investigators have left Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a statement posted on the police Facebook page said. About 100 officers […]

British police on Friday shot dead a man who had strapped a fake bomb to his body and stabbed a number of people in what they said was a terrorism incident in the London Bridge area of the capital. Police said they had been alerted at just before 2pm to a stabbing at a premises […]

WASHINGTON: The Kartarpur crossing sends a clear message to people across the world — Pakistan is committed to peace, tolerance and inter-faith harmony, says Pakistan’s US envoy Asad Majeed Khan. In an article published in the Houston Chronicle newspaper on Wednesday, Ambassador Khan notes that the idea for the corridor has been in the works for many […]

DIEN CHAU: The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to England last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. The bodies arrived on a flight that landed in Hanoi, the news website VNExpress reported. The website published photos of […]

BAGHDAD: Anti-govern­ment protesters burned down the Iranian consulate building in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Wednesday. One protester was killed and at least 35 people were wounded when police fired live ammunition to prevent them from entering the building, a police official said. The demonstrators removed the Iranian flag from the building and […]

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of a militant group on Wednesday for their role in an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation’s worst such incident. “Charges against them were proved beyond any doubt. The court gave them the highest […]

Iraqi security forces shot dead at least eight protesters in the southern city of Nassiriya on Thursday and authorities set up joint military-civilian “crisis cells” to stem unrest after demonstrators burned an Iranian consulate. Security forces opened fire on protesters who had gathered on a bridge in Nassiriya before dawn, medical sources said. Eight were […]

Afghan officials said on Wednesday that two separate explosions in the country’s north killed at least 16 people, almost all of them women and young girls. A roadside bomb struck a civilian vehicle going to a wedding on Wednesday evening, killing at least 15 people; six women, six girls and two infants, as well as […]