Category: World

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Friday as people protested outside against the lockdown in occupied Kashmir. Modi, in his address in Hindi, told world leaders that India’s “voice against terrorism to alert the world about its evil rings with seriousness […]

The White House scrambled to “lock down” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, according to an incendiary whistleblower complaint released on Thursday, in the latest episode of an intensifying impeachment drama. The complaint caps a stunning week of revelations that have put Trump’s presidency in jeopardy, with […]

Russia voiced hope on Friday that the US administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine. The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy released by the White House on Wednesday shows that Trump urged Ukraine to “look into” his Democratic political rival Joe Biden. The July […]

A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released on Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said. Iran’s marine and port authority said the Stena Impero left Iran Friday morning. Hours earlier, the tanker had begun transmitting its location for the first time in […]

The United Nations has suspended Sri Lankan troops from peacekeeping duties after Colombo ignored repeated warnings and appointed a general accused of war crimes to head its army. The UN and several Western nations expressed concern over the promotion of Maj Gen Shavendra Silva last month despite the allegations against him. “In light of this […]

PARIS: Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, died on Thursday at age 86. His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux said that Chirac died “peacefully, among his loved ones”. He did not give a cause of […]

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that the world is facing “an unprecedented threat from intolerance, violent extremism and terrorism” that affects every country, exacerbating conflicts and destabilising entire regions. The UN chief told a Security Council ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders that “the new frontier […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for caution over blaming Iran for this month’s attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility in an interview with Fox News. While Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes on September 14, Riyadh, Washington and several European governments say Iran was responsible. Tehran has denied any role in the strikes. “I don’t think […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a backlash from furious lawmakers on Thursday over his use of charged and confrontational language in parliament about opponents of his Brexit plan, as the Speaker of the House of Commons warned that the country’s political culture had turned “toxic”. In a raucous and bad-tempered debate on Wednesday, Johnson characterised […]

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 shook Turkey’s largest city Istanbul on Thursday, according to quake monitors, sending residents out of buildings and on to the streets though there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Witnesses felt buildings shake in the city during the quake and said some offices and schools were […]