Category: World

Export-reliant Chinese companies are slashing prices, moving production abroad, creating new domestic markets and even rebranding goods as they try to survive the escalating trade war with the United States. Factories along the eastern coast, fish processors in the south, apple juice exporters in central China and farmers in the northeast have all been forced […]

Norwegian police said on Sunday that a shooting at a mosque near Oslo is being treated as an “attempted act of terror” and that the suspected gunman harbours far-right, anti-immigrant views. The suspect entered the mosque in the affluent Oslo suburb of Baerum on Saturday armed with multiple weapons and opened fire before being overpowered by a […]

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday that fellow Republicans will set aside resistance to restricting access to firearms by supporting background checks for people buying weapons in the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas. The progress in efforts to curb the United States’ freewheeling relationship with firearms came despite talks between Trump […]

Disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked girls as young as 14 for sex, United States news media reported on Saturday. Epstein, a convicted sex offender who befriended numerous politicians and celebrities over the years, hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, The […]

WASHINGTON: The United States said on Friday that there has been no change in its policy on Kashmir, as Washington continues to regard it as a territory disputed between India and Pakistan. At a US State Department news briefing, spokesperson Morgan Ortagus des­cribed Kashmir as “certainly an incredibly important issue” that the United States continued […]

Imam Sheikh Mohammad bin Hassan Al Shaikh has urged all Muslims to rid their hearts of hatred and be more kind in their treatment of others, Radio Pakistan reported. While delivering the Haj sermon on Saturday at Masjid-i-Nimra on the plain of Arafat, he impressed upon the need for showing campassion towards parents, children, relatives and all […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday formally downgraded its trade relations with India to the level of Israel with which Islamabad has no trade ties at all. In reaction to India’s decision to revoke Article 370 of its constitution that granted occupied Kashmir a special status, Pakistan has downgraded diplomatic relations with India and now suspended bilateral trade with […]

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump cast more doubt on chances for a trade deal with Beijing on Friday, signalling he might cancel talks set for September amid an intensifying US-China trade war. “We’ll see whether or not we keep our meeting in September,” Trump told reporters at the White House before heading out for fundraisers in […]

More than two million Muslims begin the annual Haj, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, on Friday. “All of the arms of state have been deployed (and) we are proud to serve as ‘God’s hosts’,” said security forces spokesperson Bassam Attia. In total some 2.5 million faithful, the majority from abroad, will undertake the […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi arrived in Beijing on Friday to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discuss with him the current situation in occupied Kashmir following India’s move to revoke its special status. A statement released by the Foreign Office ahead of the meeting, said that the two will discuss the “unconstitutional measures taken by […]