Category: World

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of “colonialism” for recognising Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a border area seized by Israel from Syria in 1967. “In a point of time when colonialism ruled, some colonialist powers did such things and bestowed parts of one country to another, […]

The 500-year-old wounds of the Spanish conquest were ripped open afresh on Monday when Mexico’s president urged Spain and the Vatican to apologise for their “abuses” — a request Madrid said it “firmly rejects.” Spain’s centuries of dominance in the New World, backed by the Catholic Church, leapt from the history books to the headlines […]

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan has authorised $1 billion to build part of the wall sought by Donald Trump along the US-Mexico border, the first funds designated for the project under the president’s emergency declaration. The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 57 miles (92 kilometres) of 18-foot (5.5-meter) fencing, construct and […]

Donald Trump’s inner circle piled in on Monday on the US news media, which was plunged into soul-searching over coverage of a two-year probe that failed to show collusionbetween the president’s 2016 campaign and Russia. With America’s political landscape reset by the bombshell findings, some continued to defend aggressive reporting of a story still unfolding — […]

The European Parliament on Tuesday adopted controversial copyright reforms championed by news publishers and the media business, but punishing tech giants that lobbied against it. Despite an intense debate in parliament, MEPs meeting in Strasbourg ended up passing the draft law with 348 votes in favour, 274 against, and 36 abstentions. European lawmakers were sharply […]

The US space agency NASA scrapped Monday a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts, citing a lack of available spacesuits that would fit them at the International Space Station. Christina Koch will now perform tasks in space Friday with fellow American Nick Hague — instead of Anne McClain as originally planned. Had Koch and […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that United States President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared on Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new […]

OSLO: A cruise liner that ran into trouble in stormy seas off Norway reached port under its own steam on Sunday after hundreds of passengers were winched to safety by helicopter in a spectacular rescue operation. Escorted by tugboats, the Viking Sky arrived in the port of Molde at around 4:15pm (1515 GMT), television images […]

MONACO: Chinese Pres­ident Xi Jinping visited Monaco on the French Riviera on Sunday seeking to press ambitious commercial goals ahead of talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron who is trying to forge a united European front to contend with Beijing’s advances. Xi arrived at the airport of the resort city of Nice accompanied by his wife […]

BELGRADE: Twenty years after Nato intervened to stop Serbia’s onslaught in Kosovo, Belgrade on Sunday commemorated the victims of what it says was an aggression while Kosovo hailed the beginning of its national liberation. The staunchly opposed views of the two former war foes reflect persisting tensions over Kosovo, a former Serbian province whose 2008 […]