Category: World

Britain on Tuesday joined four other countries — Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and Oman — in banning Boeing 737 MAX planes from their airspace as a growing number of airlines around the world grounded the jets following a second deadly accident in just five months. On Sunday, a new Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a high bar for impeachment of United States President Donald Trump, saying he is “just not worth it” even as some on her left flank clamor to start proceedings. Pelosi said in an interview with The Washington Post that “I’m not for impeachment” of Trump. “Unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and […]

Britain and the European Union (EU) emerged from last-minute talks late on Monday to announce they had finally removed the biggest roadblock to their Brexit divorce deal, only hours before the United Kingdom (UK) parliament was due to decide the fate of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s hard-won plan to leave the EU. On the […]

Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents released on Monday. Details of the exit package were revealed as part of a shareholder lawsuit against the company, one that followed a published report of […]

German automaker Volkswagen said on Tuesday it plans to ramp up its production of electric vehicles over the next ten years to 22 million and reduce its carbon footprint over vehicle life cycles by 30 per cent. Previously, the company said it would aim for 15 million. That was ambitious in itself given that it […]

GENEVA: A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Monday over Bangladesh’s plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees in April to a remote island, saying it may not be habitable and could create a potential “new crisis”. Bangladesh says moving refugees to Bhasan Char — whose name means “floating island” — […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has achieved another milestone in parliamentary diplomacy by clinching the slot of deputy chairman of general body of the Parliamentary Union of OIC (PUIC). Besides this, Pakistan’s woman representative MNA Naureen Farooq has also been elected vice president of the 8th Muslim Women Parliamentarians Conference. According to an official announcement, Pakistan has been […]

LONDON: The European Union’s chief negotiator on Monday shut down hopes of a Brexit compromise with Brussels, saying it was up to Britain’s government and parliament to find a way forward with less than three weeks to go before the scheduled departure date. On the eve of a crucial vote in the House of Commons […]

Children as young as eight have been raped in a besieged city in war-hit Yemen, Amnesty International said on Monday, with militiamen among the suspected perpetrators. Amnesty said it had documented evidence of the rape of three boys and the sexual assault of a fourth in the southwestern city of Taez, controlled by pro-government forces […]

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the US Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request said. The demand is more than six times what […]