Category: World

A British court ruled on Thursday that the United Kingdom government acted unlawfully in selling weapons to Saudi Arabia that were used in the Yemen war, though it did not order a halt to the exports. The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of anti-weapons campaigners, who argued that the sales should not have been […]

Egypt’s foreign minister on Thursday condemned as “irresponsible” accusations by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his ousted Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi had been killed. In a statement, Sameh Shoukry strongly condemned the “repeated, irresponsible accusations by the Turkish president about Egypt,” following Morsi’s death on Monday after falling ill during a court hearing. Erdogan was a […]

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a US surveillance drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, the US military and Iranian ministry said, while disputing the circumstances of the incident. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said it shot down the drone on Thursday morning when […]

An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, far south of its normal hunting grounds. Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a statement on Tuesday warned local residents about a bear that has been spotted in one city district. Anatoly Nikolaychyuk, chief of the local hunting department, […]

NEW DELHI: Millions of people are turning to water tank trucks in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu as house and hotel taps run dry because of an acute water shortage caused by drying lakes and depleted groundwater. State Rural Development Minister S. P. Velumani said on Wednesday that the drought followed a 62 […]

Xi Jinping will burnish China’s fragile alliance with North Korea by making his first trip to Pyongyang as president this week — and on Wednesday he sealed their friendship in ink, offering a “grand plan” for regional stability. Xi, who will be the first Chinese president to visit Pyongyang in 14 years, penned a rare […]

There will not be any military confrontation between Iran and the United States, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the state news agency, IRNA. Fears of a confrontation between Iran and the US have mounted since last Thursday when two oil tankers were attacked, which Washington has […]

Egypt on Wednesday accused the United Nations of seeking to “politicise” the death of the country’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi by calling for an “independent inquiry”. Foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Hafez said he condemned “in the strongest terms” the call by the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, for […]

Evidence suggests Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials are liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a United Nations rights investigator said on Wednesday. There was no immediate reaction from Riyadh which was sent the 100-page report in advance ─ but the kingdom has regularly denied accusations that […]

An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, far south of its normal hunting grounds. Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a statement on Tuesday warned local residents about a bear that has been spotted in one city district. Anatoly Nikolaychyuk, chief of the local hunting department, […]