Category: World

London: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles greeted US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania at Buckingham palace on Monday at the start of a three-day state visit filled with pomp, ceremony and controversy. With a 41-gun royal salute ringing out across the royal palace´s front lawn, Trump shook hands with the queen before […]

RIYADH: Eid-ul-Fitr 2019 is most likely to be celebrated in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday , June 4 as there are reports of moon sighting from some parts of the Saudi Kingdom. The final announcement will be made by the Makkah Grand Mosque. Moon-sighting committees in Bahrain, UAE and other Gulf countries are also meeting to […]

An independent commission set up by the French Catholic Church to look at allegations of sexual abuse by clerics begins its work on Monday by launching an appeal for witness statements. France’s Catholic bishops set up the commission last year in response to a number of scandals that shook the Church in the country and […]

Of the 15 hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours, eight were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan, according to weather monitoring website El Dorado. In Pakistan, Jacobabad continued to be the hottest place with 51 degrees Celsius maximum temperature for the second day running. The highest ever maximum temperature […]

SYDNEY: Australian has become the first country to officially announce the   day of Eid ul Fitr. The National Imams Council has finally declared that Eid ul Fitr will be celebrated on Wednesday June 5. In a Facebook post, the Australian National Imams Council wrote: “Tuesday the 4th of June, 2019 will be the 30th and […]

US President Donald Trump has said British former foreign minister Boris Johnson would make an “excellent” prime minister to replace Theresa May. Trump was speaking ahead of the start of a state visit to Britain on Monday, during which he will meet May. She is set to resign on June 7 over her failure to […]

The United States warned China on Saturday against threatening its neighbours’ sovereignty and said Washington was investing in new military technology in the next five years to keep Asia stable. Washington and Beijing have been vying for influence in the region, which hosts potential flashpoints such as the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula and […]

A municipal employee sprayed gunfire “indiscriminately” in a government building complex on Friday in the US state of Virginia, police said, killing 12 people and wounding four in the latest mass shooting to rock the country. The shooter was also killed after an extended gun battle with responding officers, in a scene that “best could […]

Two Palestinian teenagers were killed as more than 200,000 Muslims took part in the final Friday prayers of Ramazan at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of annexed east Jerusalem, prompting Israel to heighten security. The religious authority in charge of the compound, the third holiest site in Islam, said in total 260,000 worshippers […]

At least four Afghans were killed and four US troops lightly wounded when a car bomber attacked a US military convoy in Kabul on Friday, officials said. The blast, which was claimed by the Taliban, occurred around 8:40am (0410 GMT) when an explosives-laden vehicle drove into the convoy that was travelling in eastern Kabul, according […]