Category: World

India’s top court set up a mediation team on Friday to try to settle a land dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site where hard-liners demolished a 16th century mosque. Attorney Vishnu Jain said the court gave the three-member team four weeks to submit its report. A […]

The attorney for President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, says the president’s advisers dangled the possibility of a pardon last year. Lanny Davis, Cohen’s lawyer, said in a written statement on Thursday that his client was “open to the ongoing ‘dangling’ of a possible pardon by Trump representatives privately and in the media” […]

United States President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday for tax crimes and bank fraud in the highest profile case yet stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Judge T.S. Lewis immediately came under fire from Democratic lawmakers for imposing what […]

Riz Ahmed is set to star in upcoming drama Mughal Mowgli. Variety reports that the actor will also be producing the music drama, which he has co-written with director Bassam Tariq. The drama will follow the life of a British Pakistani rapper… so basically Riz Ahmed will play himself. In the series, the rapper is set to […]

The threat of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India is not yet over and will continue to loom unless both countries address the core issue of their conflict — Kashmir, cautioned an editorial in The New York Times. The editorial, which was published on Thursday, noted that though the recent escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours in the […]

China threw its weight behind Huawei’s legal battle against the United States on Friday, saying the telecom giant will not be a “silent lamb to the slaughter” and vowing to defend the rights of Chinese companies. Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced Beijing’s support as Huawei mounts a legal and public relations campaign to counter US warnings that […]

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said on Friday it had no immediate plans to mount a legal challenge over Australia’s decision to bar the company’s equipment from the 5G network Down Under. A day after taking Donald Trump’s administration to court for banning United States federal agencies from buying Huawei products, the firm said no such […]

At least two blasts rattled a large ceremony in western Kabul on Thursday, with the event abruptly cancelled and sending attendees fleeing — including chief executive Abdullah Abdullah and other leading government officials. “Stay calm, the area of the blast is far from us,” said former lower house speaker Mohammad Younus Qanooni during a live […]

One person was killed and at least 30 people were injured on Thursday by a grenade blast at a bus station in Indian-occupied Kashmir, police said. “It seems that the grenade was lobbed from outside [the premises] and it rolled under the bus and caused injuries to approximately 18 people,” police official MK Sinha had […]

Tech giant Huawei on Thursday opened a legal front in its counter-offensive against the United States warnings that it could aid Chinese intelligence services, filing suit to overturn a US law that bars federal agencies from buying its products. Huawei said the case was filed in a US District Court in Plano, Texas, challenging a […]