Category: World

The US State Department announced on Friday that the Trump administration is set to approve $125 million for Pakistan to provide technical support to its fleet of F-16 aircraft. The proposed programme has already been given the go-ahead by the State Department and sent to Congress for approval. The announcement followed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s […]

President Donald Trump warned Friday that he would snub Apple’s requests for tariff exemptions on device components imported from China, as he put pressure on the tech company to shift production to the United States. “Apple will not be given Tariff wavers, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China. Make them […]

WASHINGTON: US Sec­retary of State Michael Pompeo has assured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that there will be no change in Trump administration’s South Asia strategy, the State Department said on Thursday. The statement said that in this telephone call on Wednesday, the Afghan president and the top US diplomat “agreed that now is the time […]

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey would turn elsewhere for fighter jets if the United States will not sell it the F-35 jets, adding that a US decision to cut Ankara from the programme would not deter it from meeting its needs. The United States said last week it was removing NATO ally Turkey from the […]

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi was on Thursday unanimously elected as one of the four vice presidents of the Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc), the economic arm of the United Nations. Ambassador Lodhi, who was elected by acclamation after her candidature was endorsed by the 54-member body, will assume the Asia Pacific […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said two missiles fired under his supervision were newly designed tactical weapons that sent a “solemn warning” to the South over plans to hold military drills with the United States. Thursday’s missile tests were the first since Kim and US President Donald Trump agreed to resume nuclear talks […]

The British pound edged lower on Friday, weighed down by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker telling new British Prime Boris Johnson that a deal agreed forged by his predecessor was the best and the only Brexit agreement. Juncker told Johnson on Thursday that the European Union (EU) would analyse any ideas put forward by Britain, […]

Aya Al-Umari says she feels like her brother will be accompanying her and will constantly be in her prayers when she travels to Makkah next month to take part in the annual Haj pilgrimage. Al-Umari is one of 200 relatives and survivors from the Christchurch mosque shootings who are travelling to Saudi Arabia as guests […]

Australia’s competition watchdog on Friday recommended tighter controls on the use of personal data and measures to ease Facebook and Google’s dominance of online advertising among a slew of measures to better police the internet giants. Intensifying the global drumbeat of calls to regulate some of the 21st century’s biggest corporate titans, Australia’s government said […]

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and heir to Tunisia’s founding father, has died. He was 92. Essebsi died Thursday morning at the Tunis military hospital, where he was taken the night before, an official in the president’s office told The Associated Press. The presidential Facebook page said funeral […]