Category: World

Britain on Monday said it will ban the political wing of Hezbollah, making membership of the movement or inviting support for it a crime. The decision follows outrage over the display of the Hezbollah flag, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle, at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London. “Hezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilise the […]

A would-be hijacker shot and killed by Bangladesh commandos was carrying a fake gun and told negotiators he wanted to commandeer a Dubai-bound flight because he had troubles with his wife, officials said on Monday. The 25-year-old was shot and later died of his wounds after taking a crew member hostage on the Biman Airlines jet, forcing […]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the date the first astronaut from the Gulf Arab nation will go into space. The UAE said on Monday it will send either Hazza al-Mansoori or Sultan al-Neyadi to the International Space Station on September 25 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Organisers had earlier said they would announce […]

United States President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a deadline to escalate tariffs on Chinese imports raised cautious optimism in China on Monday and sent shares soaring. The Shanghai Composite index jumped 5.5 per cent to its highest level since last summer after Trump said “substantial progress” was made in weekend talks between the two […]

The Pakistani armed forces are fully prepared to give a “befitting response” to India if it resorts to any aggression or misadventure, the military’s media wing said on Monday. The statement was the outcome of a meeting between the army and air chiefs of the country, which followed a visit by Chief of the Army Staff […]

A controversial Australian newspaper cartoon of Serena Williams which was blasted as racist and sexist did not breach media standards, the country’s press watchdog ruled Monday. Melbourne Herald-Sun illustrator Mark Knight’s caricature in September showed a butch and fat-lipped Williams throwing a temper tantrum at last year’s US Open after losing to Naomi Osaka. It sparked widespread condemnation across the […]

SRINAGAR: Five people were killed in a gun battle between armed Kashmiris and Indian forces in India-held Kashmir on Sunday as New Delhi intensified a crackdown. The authorities detained more than 160 Kashmiri fighters at the weekend. According to police, three members of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the group that claimed the suicide car bombing which killed […]

United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in Hanoi this week, faced with putting meat on the bones of the vaguely worded declaration that emerged from their historic first summit in Singapore. That encounter — the first-ever between the leaders of the US and North Korea — left many ambiguities on […]

The Foreign Office on Monday announced that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had postponed his trip to Japan due to the “sensitive situation” brewing in the region in the wake of the Pulwama attack. According to media reports, the Jaish-e-Muhammad had claimed responsibility for the attack but New Delhi immediately blamed Islamabad and threatened a retaliatory […]