Category: World

The mayor of occupied Kashmir’s biggest city Srinagar, Junaid Azim Mattu, was put under house arrest on Tuesday for criticising New Delhi’s decision to revoke Article 370 and for saying that many people were unable to communicate with their families due to the lockdown, Indian news website The Quint reported. According to NDTV, Mattu was placed under house […]

GENEVA: The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said on Tuesday. UN investigators recommended that all states impose a ban on arms transfers to the warring […]

Cathay Pacific announced on Wednesday its chairman John Slosar is stepping down to retire, the latest high-profile executive to leave the flagship carrier after it drew Beijing’s ire over pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. In a statement posted on the Hong Kong stock exchange, Cathay said Slosar, 63, had stepped down and will be replaced […]

Karachi has been named among the 10 least liveable cities in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) — the research and analysis division of the Economist Group — in The Global Liveability Index 2019 published on Wednesday. Each year, the EIU gives 140 cities scores out of 100 on a range of factors, such as […]

BRUSSELS: Nato “fully supports” American efforts to find peace in Afghanistan, the alliance chief said on Tuesday after talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on a deal taking shape with the Taliban. Pompeo met Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels as Washington tries to finalise an agreement with the Taliban after 18 […]

A no-deal Brexit is a “very distinct possibility” and European Union citizens and businesses must be ready for Britain’s departure on October 31, the bloc’s executive said on Tuesday. In London, British lawmakers were trying to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing what they cast as a calamitous no-deal Brexit, amid speculation that the […]

Authorities’ attempt to charge an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of meals served at a government school triggered protests on Tuesday over fears of worsening press freedom in the country. Pawan Jaiswal made national headlines after reporting that impoverished primary school students in a district in Uttar Pradesh state were fed bread with […]

British lawmakers will on Tuesday try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing what they cast as a calamitous no-deal Brexit, a challenge a senior government source said would prompt him to call for a snap election on October 14. More than three years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union […]

The death toll from a late-night suicide Taliban attack in the Afghan capital rose to 16 civilians on Tuesday, with 119 people wounded, an official said. Angry Kabul residents climbed over the wall into the international compound, which has been targeted frequently, and set part of it on fire. Thick black smoke rose from the […]

Hong Kong’s embattled leader insisted on Tuesday she had no intention of stepping down after an audio recording emerged of her saying she wanted to quit over three months of unrestin the southern Chinese city. Hong Kong has endured dozens of sometimes violent pro-democracy protests triggered by opposition to Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s bid to push […]