Category: World

THE HAGUE: A new chemical weapons investigation team has started work on identifying the culprits behind alleged attacks in Syria, the head of the world’s toxic arms watchdog said. Member states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) agreed one year ago to give The Hague-based body new powers to assign blame […]

US President Donald Trump said trade negotiations with China were “back on track” after “excellent” talks on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in which Washington agreed to hold off on new tariffs. The crunch talks on the damaging trade war between the world’s top two economies came on the sidelines of a meeting […]

VIENNA: Iran said progress was made on Friday at a Vienna meeting on its nuclear accord with world powers but “still not enough” as the landmark 2015 accord teetered on the brink amid tension in the Gulf. Speaking after talks with European, Russian and Chinese officials in the Austrian capital, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas […]

ISTANBUL: Hundreds gathered at Istanbul’s main court on Friday to support an opposition politician who faces 17 years in prison for a series of tweets criticising the government. Canan Kaftancioglu, who heads the secular Republican Peoples Party’s (CHP) Istanbul branch, is accused of “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish state in tweets posted […]

LAHORE: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived here on Friday after spending in Islamabad the first day of his two-day visit to Pakistan. Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar welcomed the Afghan President at Allama Iqbal International Airport. “We welcome the Afghan president in Lahore from the core of our hearts. President Ghani’s visit to Pakistan […]

France registered its highest temperature since records began on Friday as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe. The mercury hit 45.1 degrees Celsius in Villevieille, in the southerly Provence region, the weather forecaster Meteo France said, a whole degree above the previous high of 44.1C recorded in August 2003. The […]

Apple Inc. is shifting manufacturing of its new Mac Pro desktop computer to China from the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move comes at a time when the Trump administration has threatened to impose new levies to cover nearly all imports from China and pressured Apple and […]

Iran said on Friday it had formally lodged a complaint to the UN Security Council against the United States over a drone violating its airspace, Tasnim news agency reported. Iran “filed a complaint to the UN Security Council and the organisation’s Secretary General after a US spy drone violated Iran’s airspace and was shot down,” Tasnim quoted […]

Diplomats meeting in Vienna made “one step forward” in efforts to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but the outcome “was still not enough”, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said on Friday. Speaking after talks with European, Russian and Chinese officials in Vienna, Abbas Araghchi said that what had been agreed was “good progress” but added: […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May told Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday that normal relations will not be restored until Moscow ends its “irresponsible and destabilising” activity, a Downing Street spokesperson said. The comments came as May met Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan’s Osaka, their first formal face-to-face since the poisoning […]