Category: World

Hong Kong’s under-fire leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said China intervening to end months of pro-democracy protests is an option following a particularly violent week of unrest that paralysed the city. The financial hub has been gripped by four months of rallies, and last weekend saw much of the city grind to a halt as […]

France has delivered to India its first Rafale fighter jet from a series of 36 aircraft purchased in a multi-billion dollar deal in 2016. Defence Minister Florence Parly and her Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, who is on a three-day visit to France, attended a ceremony on Tuesday at aircraft maker Dassault Aviation facility in Merignac, southwestern France. […]

LAHORE: Fresh from a surprising 64-run victory in the first T20 of the three matches series against Pakistan on Saturday night, dark horses Sri Lanka must be high in morale to repeat the performance when they meet the hosts in the second tie at the Gaddafi Stadium here on Monday night to take an unbeatable […]

The Taliban have released three Indian engineers who were kidnapped in Afghanistan last year, Taliban sources told AFP on Monday, as part of an apparent prisoner swap that saw 11 fighters released. In May 2018, the Taliban seized six Indian engineers who were working on a power plant project in Baghlan in northern Afghanistan, along with their […]

Iraq’s military admitted for the first time on Monday it had used “excessive force” in nearly a week of deadly protests, as paramilitary units said they were ready to back the government. More than 100 people have been killed and several thousand wounded in demonstrations increasingly spiralling into violence, with witnesses reporting security forces using water cannons, tear […]

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Their work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska […]

Turkey will not permit the militant Islamic State (IS) group to return, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, amid fears its threatened offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria could bolster the militants. “Turkey will also continue to fight against Daesh (IS) and will not allow it to return in any shape and form,” Ibrahim […]

Police in London said they had arrested 21 climate activists by 8am (local time) on Monday as the Extinction Rebellion protest group launched two weeks of peaceful civil disobedience to call for urgent government action to curb carbon emissions. Reuters reporters in London’s government district of Westminster saw activists block a bridge and several roads as […]

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said “enemies” were trying to drive a wedge between Tehran and Baghdad following deadly unrest in neighbouring Iraq. “#Iran and #Iraq are two nations whose hearts and souls are tied together… Enemies seek to sow discord but they’ve failed and their conspiracy won’t be effective,” Khamenei was […]

A curfew was lifted in Baghdad on Saturday following days of protests which have left nearly 100 dead, but tensions remained after firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr demanded the government quit. The largely spontaneous protests over chronic unemployment and poor public services that erupted in the capital on Tuesday have escalated into a broader movement demanding […]