Category: World

The government announced on Tuesday it would take the Kashmir dispute with India to the International Court of Justice, after New Delhi revoked special status for occupied Kashmir earlier this month, to the fury of Islamabad. “We have decided to take Kashmir case to the International Court of Justice,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told ARY News TV. “The […]

Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington’s three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been “treated unjustly”. The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the sale of components and services to the telecoms titan and […]

Italy’s political crisis comes to a head on Tuesday with speculation that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will resign after far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini pulled the plug on the dysfunctional coalition government. Conte is due to speak in the Senate today following a week of fallout from Salvini’s dramatic decision to back out of the […]

A series of bombings struck restaurants and public squares on Monday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, wounding at least 34 people, officials said, as the country marked the 100th anniversary of its independence. No group claimed responsibility for the 10 bombs but both, the militant Islamic State (IS) group and the Afghan Taliban […]

The German economy could have continued to shrink over the summer as industrial production drops amid a dearth of orders, the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesbank, said on Monday, suggesting that the euro zone’s biggest economy is now in a recession. German growth contracted in the second quarter on slumping exports […]

Schools reopened in Indian-occupied Kashmir’s main city on Monday but most classrooms were empty as parents kept their children home, fearing unrest over the New Delhi’s decision two weeks ago to revoke the region’s autonomy. Some 190 primary schools were set open in Srinagar as a sign of normalcy returning to Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir as […]

A majority of economists expect a US recession in the next two years, but have pushed back the onset amid Federal Reserve actions, according to a survey released on Monday. The survey came out after President Donald Trump pushed back against talk of a looming recession as a raft of US data reports last week showed a […]

French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in southern France to discuss the world’s major crises, including Ukraine, Iran and Syria, and try to improve Moscow’s relations with the European Union. Macron has invited Putin on Monday afternoon to his summer residence, the Fort de Bregancon on the French Riviera, for […]

Afghanistan’s president on Monday vowed to “eliminate” all safe havens of the militant Islamic State group as the country marked a subdued 100th Independence Day after a horrific wedding attack claimed by the local IS affiliate. President Ashraf Ghani’s comments came as Afghanistan mourns at least 63 people, including children, killed in the Kabul bombing at a […]