Category: World

The United States called for more transparency on Wednesday as it accused Russia and China of not fully reporting their nuclear programmes amid US threats to withdraw from a key arms control treaty. A senior US official made the remarks as the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ─ all of them nuclear-armed […]

Facebook paid users, including teens, to track their smartphone activity as part of an effort to glean more data that could help the social network’s competition efforts, according to a new report that may raise fresh privacy concerns. An investigation by the online news site TechCrunch said the effort, which had been known as the Onavo Protect […]

United States Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats expects challenges facing the South Asian region to grow in 2019 due to elections in Afghanistan and India, large-scale Taliban attacks and “Pakistan’s recalcitrance in dealing with militant groups”. In a public testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday, Coats presented a threat assessment reportoutlining […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the US intelligence services as “naive” and “wrong” on the threat he says is posed by Iran. “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!” Trump said in a blistering series of tweets. Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump ….a source of potential danger and conflict. They are testing Rockets (last week) […]

BRUMADINHO: Grief over the hundreds of Brazilians feared killed in last week’s mining disaster has quickly hardened into anger as victims’ families and politicians say iron ore miner Vale SA and regulators have learned nothing from the recent past. By Monday, firefighters in the state of Minas Gerais had confirmed 60 people dead in Friday’s disaster, […]

China on Tuesday decried the “political manipulations” behind the United States (US) case against Huawei as Washington indicted the tech giant’s chief financial officer and levelled sweeping charges against the company. “For some time, the US has used state power to discredit and crack down on specific Chinese companies in an attempt to strangle the […]

The United States and the Afghan Taliban have drafted the framework of a deal which could pave the way for peace talks with Kabul, Washington’s main negotiator was quoted as saying on Monday, but major hurdles including a ceasefire and a withdrawal of foreign forces remain. The comments by special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to the New […]

KARACHI: The federal government has issued a special permit to a United Arab Emirates national — who is under probe on charges of money laundering — to hunt the internationally protected bird houbara bustard, it has been learnt. According to sources, Nasir Abdullah Lootah is being pursued by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for his […]

European Union authorities warned leading tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter on Tuesday that they need to work harder to combat fake news ahead of upcoming bloc-wide parliamentary elections. The EU’s executive commissioners said that while the US internet giants have made some progress, they need to pick up the pace of their work […]

Iran has “no intention of increasing the range” of its missiles, a senior defence official said on Tuesday, amid threats of European as well as United States sanctions over its ballistic programme. Iran has voluntarily limited the range of its missiles to 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles), sufficient to reach Israel and Western bases in the […]