Category: World

India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that New Delhi has not imposed any curbs on imports from Malaysia and Turkey. “India believes in free play and equal treatment for all,” Goyal said at a security conference in New Delhi, adding that the government also was not contemplating any restrictions on the two countries. […]

Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday that three European states had succumbed to US threats of new tariffs on their goods when they triggered a dispute mechanism in a nuclear pact, a step that could lead to the reimposition of United Nations sanctions. The 2015 nuclear deal signed in Vienna — known as The Joint […]

Iraq’s outgoing prime minister said on Wednesday it was up to the next government to see through the parliament’s decision to oust US troops. Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s comments came ahead of planned protests against the American military presence in Iraq called for by an influential cleric. Washington has responded to Iraq’s requests to […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said the Taliban have shown “a willingness” to reduce violence in war-torn Afghanistan after more than 18 years fighting the US, sparking speculation that a potential breakthrough in talks with the Americans may be near. Negotiations between the Taliban and the US have repeatedly stalled, with Washington calling […]

An airliner with engine trouble dumped jet fuel that fell as a smelly mist on dozens of schoolchildren while the plane made an emergency return to Los Angeles International Airport, officials said. The fuel, described by fire officials as a vapor, caused minor skin and lung irritation to 56 children and adults but nobody was […]

WASHINGTON: The Democratic-led US House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate, lawmakers said on Tuesday, likely setting the start of Trump’s trial for later this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a party meeting that she would also name the Democrats’ team of […]

Leftist Bernie Sanders attacked frontrunner Joe Biden on foreign policy on Tuesday but found himself fighting accusations of sexism in the final presidential debate before Democrats begin choosing who challenges incumbent Donald Trump in November’s election. With no candidate yet to carve out a clear lead less than three weeks to go before the first […]

Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday an existing nuclear deal the country struck with world powers was not dead and that he was unsure if any new pact agreed by United States President Donald Trump would last. “The United States didn’t implement (the existing deal’s) […] commitments, now it has withdrawn […] I had a […]

Tokyo-based human rights activists on Wednesday decried recent remarks by Japan’s ambassador to Yangon, who told local media he did not think the Myanmar military committed genocide on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country. More than 730,000 Rohingya fled the Southeast Asian nation to Bangladesh in 2017 after a military-led crackdown. The United Nations […]

Microsoft Corp’s India-born Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said he was saddened by a new citizenship law based on religion that was recently implemented in his home country, BuzzFeed News reported on Monday. “I think what is happening is sad, primarily as sort of someone who grew up there […] I think it’s just bad,” Nadella told BuzzFeed at […]