WASHINGTON: The United States’ top general said on Thursday that the Chinese military was benefiting from the work Alphabet Incs Google was doing in China, where the technology giant has long sought to have a bigger presence. “The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military,” Marine General Joseph Dunford, […]
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The terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand is just the latest in a series of incidents where terrorists have targeted houses of worship — a place of reflection and peace. Here are some of the deadly assaults over the last decade: Oct 31, 2010: Al-Qaida in Iraq militants attack Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church […]
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BAIKONUR: Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian colleague Alexey Ovchinin, who survived a dramatically aborted Soyuz launch last year, were due to blast off again to the International Space Station on Thursday. The two men will be joined by US astronaut Christina Koch for lift-off from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1914 GMT. […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREBritain’s Parliament voted on Thursday to seek a delay of the country’s departure from the European Union, a move that will likely avert a chaotic withdrawal on the scheduled exit date of March 29. With Brexit due in 15 days and no divorce deal yet approved, the House of Commons voted 412-202 to ask the […]
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Thirty-one militants, many of them believed to have been Al Qaeda fighters, have been killed in airstrikes in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday. The strikes were carried out in Ghazni province late Wednesday, where the defence ministry said they targeted a “base” belonging to the militants. “Qari Aref, one of the facilitators (for Al […]
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Ten Saudi women appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since being detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists, ratcheting up scrutiny of the kingdom’s human rights record. The trial of the women, who have been held for nearly a year without charge, comes as Saudi Arabia seeks to placate international criticism […]
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LONDON: British lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected leaving the European Union without a deal on Wednesday, paving the way for a vote to delay Brexit to seek a way out of Britain’s worst political crisis in generations. Lawmakers voted by 312 to 308 in favour of a cross-party motion that ruled out a potentially disorderly `no-deal’ Brexit […]
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Germany’s Catholic Church was Thursday due to speak about steps and reforms to address its child sex abuse scandal, which mirrors paedophilia revelations in congregations worldwide. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, was due to give a 1300 GMT press conference at the end of a four-day episcopal conference in the […]
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US aviation experts on Tuesday joined the investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, as questions grow about the new Boeing plane involved in the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) arrived at the crash site outside the capital, Addis Ababa, with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board. […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREA Chinese official on Tuesday rejected international criticism of internment camps in the restive Xinjiang region, calling them job training centres that will “gradually disappear” if “one day society no longer needs it”. Nearly one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic minorities are being held in detention centres in Xinjiang, according to estimates cited […]
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