Category: World

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday assured Kabul of its support for peace in Afghanistan as it renewed its efforts for facilitating the long elusive intra-Afghan dialogue. Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa paid a previously unannounced trip to Kabul along with newly appointed special envoy for Afghanistan Muham­mad Sadiq and ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed. It […]

UAE carrier Etihad Airways sent its second flight to Israel in less than a month Tuesday, carrying medical aid to help the Palestinians tackle the coronavirus pandemic, witnesses and officials said. Jordan and Egypt aside, Arab countries have no official diplomatic ties with Israel, but Gulf Arab nations have had ever more publicly warm ties […]

NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to peacefully resolve the current border issue in eastern Ladakh in accordance with bilateral agreements reached between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in recent years, an Indian statement said on Sunday. India’s ministry of external affairs recalled that in recent weeks, India and […]

Calls for deep police reforms gained momentum in the United States as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of an officer pushed to dismantle the entire department. Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests demanding a reckoning with institutional racism that have sometimes resulted in clashes with police, but many officers took […]

PARIS: The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 400,000 on Sunday with fatalities accelerating in the epicentre of Latin America even as Europe emerges from its virus lockdown with infections there increasingly under control. Almost seven million infections have been registered since Covid-19 emerged in China late last year, forcing much of […]

Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced Covid-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday. In a modelling study of lockdown impact in 11 nations, Imperial College London scientists said that the draconian steps, imposed mostly in March, had “a […]

Malls and temples reopened in several cities across India on Monday despite the country recording a record daily number of new coronavirus infections, with the pandemic expected to ravage the country for weeks to come. After a 10-week lockdown, the government has risked lifting some restrictions in a bid to ease the devastating blow to […]

WASHINGTON: Battle losses and desertions have reduced the strong Daesh militant force in Afghanistan to a rag-tag group of about 200 fighters, said a UN report released this week. The eastern province of Nangarhar has been the main stronghold of this group — known as the Islamic State of Khorasan or ISIL-K — ever since […]

MINNEAPOLIS: Holly­wood celebrities and the politically powerful filed into a sanctuary in front of the casket of George Floyd for a memorial service on Thursday as mourners began a three-city farewell to the man who was anonymous in life but sparked global protests for justice in death. The service unfolded at North Central University as […]

President Donald Trump voiced hope for progress with arch-rival Iran on Thursday after the clerical regime released a US Navy veteran and the United States freed two Iranians. Michael White, who had contracted the coronavirus while in Iran, flew out on a Swiss military jet to Zurich where he was welcomed by a senior US […]