Category: World

ISLAMABAD: Another round of talks between Pakistan and the United States on Afghan peace process will start here from Monday (today). US Special Representa­tive for Afghan Reconcilia­tion Zalmay Khalilzad and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, South and Central Asia, Alice Wells, will be arriving the same day to participate in the negotiations. According to […]

WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan are working to resolve an issue that may lead to new visa restrictions on some Pakistani citizens if left unresolved, officials said on Sunday. Media reports claimed on Saturday that the United States had added Pakistan to a list of countries which face visa restrictions for refusing to take […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that $64 billion worth of deals were signed at a summit on his Belt and Road Initiative and more nations would join the global infrastructure programme as he sought to ease concerns over the colossal project. Xi and 37 world leaders wrapped up a three-day forum in Beijing […]

Mohammad Zahran Hashim — the suspected mastermind of the Sri Lankan Easter bombings — spent a “substantial amount of time in south India”, The Hindu reported on Friday citing a top source within the Sri Lankan military. “We are looking into the IS angle. We also suspect that some of those radical youth were indoctrinated and trained […]

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has successfully managed a surveillance flight over a US aircraft carrier. The Saturday report shows footage apparently from a Guard drone that flew over the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and another US warship in the Persian Gulf. The images show jet fighters parked on […]

Fifteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said on Saturday. The three men set off explosives, also killing three women and six children inside what was believed to […]

Thousands of Air India passengers were stranded at airports across the world on Saturday, after a software “glitch” left those travelling with the state-run airline unable to check in, officials said. More than 80 domestic and international flights were delayed for six hours because of a problem with the company’s check-in software that brought operations […]

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that peace and security on the Korean peninsula depend entirely on the future US attitude, North Korean state media KCNA said on Friday. Kim’s remarks were seen as keeping pressure on the United States to be more flexible in […]

INDIANAPOLIS: President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups. Trump told members of the gun lobby that he intends to revoke the […]

ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON: Istanbul prosecutors ordered the detention of 210 military personnel over suspected links to the network blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office said on Friday. It said the suspects from the air, marine and land forces, as well as the gendarmerie and coast guard, included five […]