Category: World

NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Monday decided in principle to let Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek where he has to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 13-14. Indian reports say no meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan was on the agenda. Pakistan had fully closed its […]

NUR SULTAN: A presidential election in Kazakhstan won by the hand-picked successor to the country’s longtime ruler showed little respect for democracy, foreign monitors said on Monday. “A lack of regard for fundamental rights, including detentions of peaceful protesters, and widespread voting irregularities on election day, showed scant respect for democratic standards,” observers from the […]

DES MOINES: A seed developer from the Nether­lands credited with introducing high quality disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize on Monday. Simon Groot, a sixth generation seedsman, began his search to create better vegetable seeds to help farmers in Southeast […]

A UAE woman was taken into custody on Sunday after she swindled people online into believing that she was a victim of a failed marriage and was in dire need of money to support her children. As per reports citing Dubai police officials, the woman had tricked several social media users on Instagram, Facebook and […]

In royal Emirati fashion three sons of His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum married in an extravagant ceremony last week and are prepping up to host another lavish event this week, invites of which have been widely circulating on social media.  The next wedding ceremony is scheduled to be held on June 14, […]

Several shops opened and buses plied the streets Monday as life limped back to the Sudanese capital on the second day of a nationwide civil disobedience campaign called to pressure the ruling military into handing over power. The timid return to normalcy came as the ruling military council announced that security forces on the streets […]

ABU DHABI: As its nuclear deal with world powers unravels amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran will see a week of high-stakes diplomacy capped by the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Shinzo Abe will arrive on Wednesday in Iran after earlier meeting with President Donald […]

AMMAN: Germany’s top diplomat on Sunday reaffirmed his country’s support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of a long-awaited US peace plan. “We are still in agreement that reaching a two-state solution through negotiations is the only solution,” Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said during a press conference in Amman with his […]

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday made an unscheduled stop at a Catholic church bombed during the Easter suicide attacks ahead of his official welcome to Sri Lanka. Modi’s entourage made a detour to St Anthony’s shrine on their way to President Maithripala Sirisena’s office, where a red carpet military parade awaited. “I am confident […]

Iran said on Sunday that Europe was not in a position to criticise Tehran for its military capabilities, and called on European leaders to normalise economic ties with the Islamic Republic despite US sanctions or face consequences. President Donald Trump last year withdrew the United States from a nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions. […]