Category: World

A Sri Lankan Cabinet minister says a Muslim man was killed and dozens of shops and mosques were destroyed in communal violence in apparent retaliation to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people. Rauff Hakeem, a Cabinet minister and leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, said Tuesday that the man was […]

US police on Monday launched a bid to evict Americans who have been occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington for weeks in protest against opposition leader Juan Guaido. The administration of President Donald Trump and some 50 other countries recognise Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate acting leader as he tries to force the departure of President […]

An Afghan official says that unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a female journalist and adviser to the country’s parliament in the capital Kabul. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the interior ministry, says that Mena Mangal, a cultural adviser for the lower house of the parliament and former TV presenter, was killed when she was […]

The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to bolster an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers already sent to the Gulf, ratcheting up pressure on Saturday on archfoe Iran. In response to alleged threats from Iran, the USS Arlington, which transports marines, amphibious vehicles, conventional landing craft and rotary aircraft, and […]

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that North Korea’s recent missile tests were not a “breach of trust.” “They’re short-range and I don’t consider that a breach of trust at all. And, you know, at some point I may. But at this point no,” he said in an interview with Politico. “These were short-range […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Around 180,000 Muslims prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, the first in the holy month of Ramazan, a body responsible for the site said. The figure from the Waqf organisation is 50 per cent higher than last year, when around 120,000 people attended the first Friday prayers. Azzam al-Khatib, director general […]

KABUL: An Afghan official says the Taliban have launched an assault on two security outposts in western Badghis province, killing 15 security personnel in the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the country’s beleaguered security forces. Another 11 soldiers were hurt in the onslaught early on Friday. Ziauddinn Akazai, a lawmaker in the […]

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday he was in no hurry to reach a deal with Beijing as high-stakes trade talks resumed, arguing the US was negotiating from a position of strength. Just hours earlier, the United States had increased punitive duties on $200 billion in Chinese imports from 10 to 25 per cent, […]

TUNIS: As many as 70 migrants trying to reach Europe from Libya drowned on Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, and at least 16 other people from the boat were rescued, according to UN migration officials and Tunisia’s state news agency. The International Organisation for Migration called it the deadliest migrant boat […]

GENEVA: Conflict forced more than 10 million people to flee their homes to live elsewhere within their own country last year, bringing the total number of people internally displaced by violence to a record high, monitors said on Friday. The new figure brings the total number of people currently living in internal displacement due to […]