Category: World

United States President Donald Trump revoked a policy on Wednesday that required the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to account for civilian deaths from drone strikes. The move reversed a two-year-old order by his predecessor Barack Obama, who came under pressure for greater transparency after sharply increasing the use of drones for targeted attacks in military […]

Queen Elizabeth II has posted her first Instagram image. The media-savvy queen on Thursday posted from the Science Museum to help promote the museum’s summer exhibition. Using an iPad, she shared an image on the official royal family Instagram account, of a letter from 19th-century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Queen Victoria and Prince […]

Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the past two years. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday that the hacking campaign stole corporate secrets and wiped data from computers. Microsoft told the Journal the cyberattacks affected oil-and-gas companies and makers of […]

NEW DELHI: The Hindu newspaper on Wednesday quoted official papers as showing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ignored opposition from his defence and finance ministries to negotiate a costlier deal with France for Rafale warplanes than was agreed by the Manmohan Singh government. The planes are expected to begin arriving in September. The government angrily told the Supreme […]

WASHINGTON: Author Stanley Wolpert, popular in Pakis­tan for his books on Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, died in California last month. He was 91. In his long career as an author, teacher and political commentator, Prof Wolpert published 15 books, including four novels, but the one that made him a must read […]

WASHINGTON: US special envoy Zalmay Khalil­zad’s trip to the Middle East has been extended to give him more time for negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban, says the US State Department. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said at a public meeting in Iowa that he may visit Doha, where US and […]

WASHINGTON: Democrats in the US Congress unleashed an unexpectedly sweeping series of demands in their investigations of President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking information about his communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin and documents from 81 sources in an obstruction probe. The heads of the House of Representatives Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees wrote […]

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido vowed on Tuesday to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, who in turn promised to crush a “crazed minority” that wants to remove him from power. The 35-year-old National Assembly leader returned home to a hero’s welcome on Monday, having defied a ban on leaving the country to embark on […]

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for president in 2020. “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said on Monday in an interview with News 12, a local TV channel in New York. Clinton was the frontrunner […]

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he was ready to join the talks between Washington and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, in a couple of weeks if there was sufficient progress in the deliberations. The fifth round of US-Taliban talks resumed in Doha this week after a two-day break for consultations […]