Category: World

The Pentagon’s top official made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with US commanders and Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban. Pat Shanahan, the recently installed acting secretary of defense, said he has no orders to reduce the US troop presence, although officials say that is at the […]

Food aid in a warehouse on the frontlines of the Yemen war is at risk of rotting, the United Nations said on Monday, leaving millions of Yemenis without access to life-saving sustenance. The Red Sea Mills silos, located in the western port city of Hodeida, are believed to contain enough grain to feed several million […]

United States negotiators met with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing on Monday for a new round of high-stakes trade talks, hoping to reach a deal before the March 1 deadline set by Donald Trump as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned of a possible global economic “storm”. Preliminary discussions had been expected to start on […]

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Monday as the United States leads a push for peace talks with the Afghan Taliban. Shanahan will meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who has warned against rushing into a deal after Washington held major talks with Afghan Taliban officials in Qatar last […]

Five trucks full of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s personal amenities have reached Islamabad ahead of his two-day visit to Pakistan, a source within the Saudi Embassy told DawnNewsTV on Monday. Prince Mohammed is expected to arrive in Pakistan this week, although an exact date of his arrival has not yet been disclosed. While the prince […]

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognised by some 50 countries as Venezuela’s interim president, warned the military Sunday that blocking humanitarian aid from entering the country is a “crime against humanity.” The warning comes as international aid has taken centre stage in a test of wills between Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro in which Venezuela’s armed […]

Five Kashmiris were killed in fighting with government forces in occupied Kashmir on Sunday, reports said, triggering anti-India clashes in which at least 10 civilians were injured. The fighting began after Indian government forces cordoned off a village in the Himalayan region’s southern Kulgam area. Exchange of gunfire was reported in which five armed Kashmiris […]

WASHINGTON: The support for a boycott of Israel by the first two Muslim women in the US Congress has opened a breach in the Democratic Party and threatens to create a fissure in the ironclad US-Israeli alliance. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib made their debut in the House of Representatives in January and openly declared […]

Footballer Emiliano Sala’s family grieved on Friday after British authorities formally identified his body as the one recovered from the submerged wreckage of a plane that went down in the Channel more than two weeks ago. “We can now begin to mourn our son and our brother,” the Argentine Cardiff City striker’s family said in a statement. […]

Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria prepared on Friday for a push on the last remaining speck of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate” where diehard militants and their families are holed up. US President Donald Trump predicted that the once-sprawling proto-state’s official death could be proclaimed as early as next week but operations have been paused […]