Category: World

China said on Thursday it hopes the United States will stop its wrong tariff action, adding that any new tariffs would lead to escalation. The United States said early this month it would slap duties on $300 billion of Chinese goods from September 1, which would effectively extend its tariffs to all of China’s exports […]

Correction: An earlier version of this article erroneously attributed the information to a UK foreign ministry statement, instead of the Indian foreign ministry. The error is regretted. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, about demonstrations over New Delhi’s decision to strip occupied Kashmir of its special status, outside the Indian […]

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday began implementing a landmark reform allowing women over the age of 21 to receive passports and travel abroad without permission from a male “guardian”, authorities said. The reform, announced earlier this month, weakens the restrictive guardianship system that has long been a symbol of repression against women. “The passport department has […]

The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a wedding reception in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has risen to 80, two senior officials said on Wednesday. The initial death toll after the Saturday night blast was 63, but some of the wounded had died in hospital, said Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman at the interior ministry. […]

Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari has formally written to the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), asking her to remove Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas as a global Unicef Goodwill Ambassador over her allegedly pro-war comments, it emerged on Wednesday. The minister’s move came days after Chopra was accosted at an event in the United […]

Denmark was left stunned Wednesday by Donald Trump’s decision to postpone a state visit after the government told the US president its autonomous territory Greenland was not for sale. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has called the idea of selling Greenland “absurd”, told reporters that she was “annoyed and surprised” at Trump’s decision but […]

COX’S BAZAR: Few Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have responded to plans for their repatriation to Myanmar, and all who did said they don’t want to go back, officials from the UN refugee agency and Bangladesh’s government said on Tuesday. Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner, Abul Kalam, said only 21 families out of 1,056 selected for repatriation […]

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Tuesday that the militant Islamic State (IS) is gaining strength in some areas, but said the militant group’s capacity to conduct attacks has been greatly diminished. “It’s complicated. There are certainly places where IS is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago,” […]

Leaders of the UK and European Union hardened their positions on Tuesday on whether it is possible to re-open Brexit negotiations, dimming prospects for any breakthrough ahead of a summit of G-7 leaders this weekend. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded on Monday that the EU re-open Brexit negotiations, scrapping “anti-democratic” provisions for the Irish […]

Facing pressure to end months of anti-government protests, Hong Kong’s leader pledged on Tuesday to open up dialogue with city residents in an effort to narrow differences. However, Chief Executive Carrie Lam offered no concessions to the protest movement and a key organiser of the mass rallies dismissed her plan to immediately set up a “communication […]