Category: World

The offer by the United States to negotiate with Iran is a deception, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday in remarks published on his official website. US President Donald Trump has said he is willing to hold talks with the Islamic Republic. “Negotiations are a deception for what they want. A weapon […]

NEW DELHI: India plans to add 500 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy to its electricity grid by 2030 in a bid to clean up air in its cities and lessen the rapidly growing economy’s dependence on coal, the government said on Tuesday. “By 2030 India plans to establish 500GW of Renewable Energy capacity,” Anand Kumar, […]

AMSTERDAM: Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Tuesday called for either an acquittal or a procedural delay in his appeal against a 2016 conviction for inciting discrimination against Moroccans. “This trial has every appearance of being politically motivated. Stop the witch hunt!” he told judges at the Hague Appeals Court. Wilders was convicted over a […]

Police in Indian-occupied Kashmir arrested the publisher of one of the most widely read newspapers in the area in a midnight raid over a decades-old case, police and his brother said on Tuesday, highlighting the difficulties plaguing media in the region. Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, 62, a journalist and the publisher of the Urdu-language newspaper Daily Afaaq, […]

Iran will take new steps to reduce its commitments under its nuclear deal with world powers on July 7, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said on Tuesday, according to the Fars news agency. Shamkhani said European signatories to the nuclear deal had not done enough to save it. The 2015 deal requires […]

Authorities in Texas reported seven migrant deaths on Monday, including those of a woman, two babies and a toddler, showing the danger of extreme summer heat as Central American families surge across the United States-Mexico border. The woman and three children may have been dead for days before they were found by US Border Patrol […]

The US government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Just 30 children remained at the station outside El Paso on Monday, said Representative Veronica Escobar after her […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Trade tensions between the United States and China will not benefit any party over the long term, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference at the Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery here, Lagarde said the climate of trade tension was […]

SILIVRI: Sixteen leading Turkish civil society leaders appeared in court on Monday, accused of seeking to overthrow the government during the “Gezi Park” protests of 2013, in a trial dubbed an absurd sham by critics. The group includes renowned businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, whose detention since November 2017 has made him a symbol of […]

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks on Monday with Saudi leaders ahead of new sanctions on Tehran in a standoff sparked by Washington’s withdrawal from a nuclear deal. Both the US and Iran say they want to avoid going to war, but tensions have spiked after Tehran shot down an American drone […]