Category: World

TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday the “genocidal taunts” of US President Donald Trump would not “end Iran”, as tensions spike between the two countries. “Iranians have stood tall for millennia while aggressors all gone. Economic terrorism and genocidal taunts won’t ‘end Iran’,” Zarif wroteon Twitter. “Never threaten an Iranian. Try respect […]

Formula One great Niki Lauda, who won two of his world titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to become a prominent figure in the aviation industry, has died at the age of 70. Lauda’s family issued a statement saying the three-time world champion “passed away peacefully” on […]

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump predicted on Monday that The New York Times would close down before he leaves office after the newspaper reported that anti-money laundering specialists had flagged transactions involving him and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “The Failing New York Times (it will pass away when I leave office in 6 years),” President Trump wrote in a […]

LONDON: The lowly milkshake has turned into an unlikely weapon of choice for Britons determined to make a splashy statement against the rise of the Brexit-backing populist right. Former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage became the latest political figure on Monday to be doused with the sticky concoction while campaigning for his new […]

MONTGOMERY: Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Alabama Capitol on Sunday to protest the state’s [newly approved abortion ban1, chanting “my body, my choice!” and “vote them out!”. The demonstration came days after Governor Kay Ivey signed the most stringent abortion law in the nation making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases […]

Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when the frequented each other’s shops and went to festivals together. Such interactions no longer happen, many say, because of how polarised the two communities have become in […]

Qatar has not been invited to two regional summits called to discuss attacks on Saudi oil assets, a Qatari foreign ministry official said on Monday. Saudi King Salman on Saturday proposed holding the two meetings in Makkah on May 30 to discuss implications of last week’s drone strikes on oil installations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia […]

A prominent rights group in occupied Kashmir is advocating for the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate what it calls the endemic use of torture by Indian forces who have faced a decades-long anti-India uprising in the disputed region. The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) on Monday released a detailed report saying […]

President Donald Trump warned Iran early on Monday not to threaten the United States again or it’ll face its “official end,” shortly after a rocket landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad overnight. Trump’s tweet comes after he seemingly sought to soften his tone on Iran following days of heightened tension sparked by Washington’s sudden […]

Exit polls from India’s marathon election showed an “overwhelming” vote in favour of a new term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his party said on Monday as shares and the Indian currency surged on expectations of a new term. While opposition parties refused to give in and the country faces a nerve-jangling three day wait […]