Category: World

Oil prices slipped on Wednesday, extending losses from the previous session after Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said the kingdom will restore lost oil production by the end of the month. But investors remained cautious about Middle East tension after the United States said it believes the attacks that crippled Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend originated in […]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. US media reported in late July and early August, citing intelligence officials, that the younger Bin Laden had been killed sometime in […]

Fires broke out at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities after they were struck by drones early on Saturday, the kingdom’s interior ministry said. “At 4:00 am (0100 GMT) the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of […] drones,” the ministry […]

The Taliban have sent a delegation to Russia to discuss prospects for a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan following the collapse of talks with the United States this month, officials from the insurgent group said. The move, days after US President Donald Trump cancelled a planned meeting with Taliban leaders at his Camp David retreat, came […]

US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday called for the communications blockade and curfew restrictions in occupied Kashmir to be lifted to “shed light” on what is happening in the disputed region. In a statement, Tlaib, who is among a group of progressive US congresswomen known as “the squad”, said: “India must afford due process to the […]

The British prime minister who called the Brexit referendum and then saw the public vote to leave the European Union said he is sorry for the divisions it has caused. David Cameron said in an interview published on Saturday that he thinks about the consequences of the Brexit referendum “every single day” and worries “desperately” […]

WASHINGTON: A foreign policy arm of the US Congress has subpoenaed the Trump administration’s chief peace negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad to appear before the panel next week and explain the failure of the US-Taliban talks. “I’m fed up with this Administration keeping Congress and the American people in the dark on the peace process and how […]

New Zealand unveiled new legislation on Friday aimed at ensuring only “fit and proper” people can own guns in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51 Muslim worshippers. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had immediately banned military style semi-automatic rifles after the shootings in March but said further restrictions were needed […]

Frontrunner Joe Biden went on the offensive on Thursday in the third Democratic debate of the 2020 White House race, clashing with top rivals on the fraught issue of health care in America and brushing off attacks from lesser challengers. Under pressure to appear in command — and dispel doubts over his stamina — the […]

An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year after death, in findings that could have implications for detectives and pathologists around the world. After studying and photographing the movements of a corpse over 17-months, Alyson Wilson told AFP on Friday that she found humans don’t exactly rest in peace. […]