Category: World

Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested on Friday morning on several criminal charges stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation. Stone is charged in a seven-count indictment with witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to the release by WikiLeaks of hacked emails during the 2016 presidential election. Some […]

Senior Nato and Russian officials made no progress on Friday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe. “There was no real progress in the meeting today because Russia did not indicate any willingness to change their position,” Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said. […]

Airbus chief Tom Enders warned on Thursday that a no-deal Brexit could prompt the European aerospace giant to make “very harmful decisions” for Britain, branding the government’s handling a “disgrace”. The aircraft manufacturer currently employs 14,000 people in Britain, including sites at Filton in southwest England and Broughton in north Wales, designing and manufacturing wings. […]

BERLIN: Applications for asylum in Germany dropped steeply last year, hard-line Interior Minister Horst Seehofer reported on Wednesday, saying the issue had become less politically explosive as a result. Seehofer said the official 2018 figures showed Germany had received some 185,000 appeals for asylum — a 16-per-cent decline from the previous year, far below the […]

NEW DELHI: India’s Priyanka Gandhi officially entered politics on Wednesday ahead of a looming national election, joining the opposition campaign in a crucial state where the party her family founded hopes to unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Priyanka — whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather were all prime ministers — was appointed Congress party chief in […]

Bryan Singer, the director of the Oscar-nominated Bohemian Rhapsody, has been accused of sexually assaulting minors in an expose published by The Atlantic. The Atlantic on Wednesday published a lengthy article based on a 12-month investigation. It details the stories of four alleged victims who said they were seduced and molested by the Bohemian Rhapsody director while underage. […]

WASHINGTON: US Senator Lindsey Graham, who visited Islamabad this week, is believed to have discussed with Pakistani leaders a proposal for a free trade agreement (FTA) in return for Islamabad’s assistance in ending the Afghan war, official sources told Dawn. At a news briefing in Islamabad on Sunday, Senator Graham also urged US President Donald Trump to […]

Australia on Thursday demanded China handle the case of detained author Yang Hengjun “transparently and fairly,” amid a growing row about the fate of the Chinese-Australian. Yang — a novelist, democracy advocate and former Chinese diplomat — was detained shortly after he made a rare return to China from the United States (US) last week. Friend and […]

The world is “losing the race” against climate change, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday at the elite Davos forum, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest catastrophic warming. “Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We are losing the race,” he said on the margins of the World Economic Forum […]

BEIJING: China’s population grew at a slower rate last year despite the abolition of the one-child policy, official data showed on Monday, raising fears an ageing society will pile further pressure on an already slowing economy. China’s government raised the limit to two children in 2016 to rejuvenate the world’s most populous country, which has nearly 1.4 […]