20 Jul 2018 | 6:46 PMWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of goods the US imports from China, remarks that sent financial markets retreating and threatened to escalate a trade clash with the Asian giant.
20 Jul 2018 | 8:41 PMDAMASCUS: Hardline rebels and civilians began leaving a southwestern sliver of Syria near the Israeli-annexed Golan on Friday under a surrender deal, state media, as the evacuations turned deadly with a car accident.
20 Jul 2018 | 10:00 PMNEW YORK: Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly taped a discussion with him about payments to a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with the US president, and the tape is now in FBI hands, The New York Times reported today.
20 Jul 2018 | 9:48 PMBERLIN: Several people were injured on Friday in an attack by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany, officials said, although his motive remained unclear.
20 Jul 2018 | 5:13 PMSEOUL: Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday on charges including illegally receiving funds from the country’s spy agency, a court said.
20 Jul 2018 | 8:16 PMSAN FRANCISCO: After grabbing headlines for showing results related to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the search of the word "Feku" in May, Google algorithms are again hogging the limelight. This time for showing images of US President Donald Trump for a search of the word "idiot".
20 Jul 2018 | 8:12 PMISLAMABAD: Pakistan will deploy 1.6 million electoral officials and nearly 7.5 lakh security personnel, including soldiers for the July 25 General Election, the country’s poll body announced on Friday.
20 Jul 2018 | 8:14 PMPARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron, trying to curb what has become the most damaging scandal of his presidency, on Friday fired a top security aide who has been taken into custody after videos emerged showing him strike a young man during a demonstration in Paris in May.
20 Jul 2018 | 5:38 PMLONDON: Geoffrey Wellum, the youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during the World War II, has died, a media report said on Friday.
20 Jul 2018 | 5:13 PMKABUL: A district governor in Afghanistan says Taliban fighters launched a wave of attacks in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least eight police and wounding seven others.
20 Jul 2018 | 4:17 PMBELFAST: British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that she was frustrated that Northern Ireland had been without a devolved government for over eighteen months.
20 Jul 2018 | 5:13 PMWASHINGTON: A Pakistani-American father-son duo has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a US court for illegally exporting banned items to the Pakistan military, particularly to its atomic energy and space agencies.
20 Jul 2018 | 10:45 AMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has instructed his top national security aide to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington later this year.
20 Jul 2018 | 9:41 AMNEW YORK: At least eight people have died and over 10 injured in a tourist boat accident in the US state of Missouri, said an official.
20 Jul 2018 | 1:41 AMWASHINGTON:US President Donald Trump today said he holds his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin personally responsible for the alleged meddling into the 2016 presidential elections, as he went into damage-control mode to douse a flurry of criticism over his recent comments about Russia.
20 Jul 2018 | 1:41 AMJERUSALEM:Israel passed a “nation-state” law on Thursday declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, stirring anger from members of the Arab minority who said it was racist and drawing an expression of concern from the EU.
20 Jul 2018 | 1:41 AMLONDON:British police have identified “several suspects” in the attempt to murder former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter by poisoning them with a rare nerve agent, media reports said on Thursday, citing the outcome of investigations in the high-profile case that has hit UK’s ties with Russia.
20 Jul 2018 | 1:41 AMLONDON:Two Indian-origin individuals are among 10 shortlisted by Britain’s ruling Conservative party as prospective candidates to run for London Mayor in 2020 against Labour’s Pakistan-origin Sadiq Khan.
globe trot20 Jul 2018 | 1:41 AMMae Sai: Members of the “Wild Boars” football team rescued from a cave in northern Thailand prayed for good luck at a Buddhist temple on Thursday after spending their first night back home with family.
20 Jul 2018 | 5:29 PMCANBERRA:Australia will not give up its quest to prosecute an Australian Islamic State group suspect despite a Turkish court rejecting an extradition application, the Australian prime minister said on Friday.
19 Jul 2018 | 9:48 PMUNITED NATIONS: Russia and China delayed on Thursday a US push for a UN Security Council committee to order a halt to refined petroleum exports to North Korea, asking for more detail on a US accusation that Pyongyang has breached a cap, diplomats said.
20 Jul 2018 | 2:30 AMLONDON: A poem by renowned English writer Rudyard Kipling has been scrubbed off the walls of the Manchester University by students as a boycott against his "racist" views that legitimised the British Empire in India.
19 Jul 2018 | 8:36 PMGAZA CITY: A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the enclave's health ministry said, after Israel said one of its aircraft targeted a group launching balloons carrying firebombs.
19 Jul 2018 | 8:13 PMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was looking forward to a "second meeting" with Russia's Vladimir Putin after what he called the "great success" of their summit in Helsinki.
19 Jul 2018 | 6:20 PMPARIS: French lawmakers have secured a deal on a Bill that would outlaw the use of mobiles phones in schools starting in September, one of Emmanuel Macron’s pledges during last year’s presidential campaign.
19 Jul 2018 | 5:53 PMLONDON: A coroner has opened an inquest into the poisoning death of a British woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
19 Jul 2018 | 9:14 PMLONDON: British police have identified "several suspects" in the attempt to murder former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter by poisoning them with a rare nerve agent, media reports said on Thursday, citing the outcome of investigations in the high-profile case that has hit UK's ties with Russia.
19 Jul 2018 | 1:53 PMBEIJING: China said on Thursday comments made by a senior White House official blaming Chinese President Xi Jinping for blocking progress on a deal to avert a trade war were “shocking” and “bogus” accusations.
19 Jul 2018 | 1:42 PMKABUL: At least 17 insurgents were killed and over a dozen others injured after Afghan security forces repulsed Taliban attacks on security checkpoints in Kunduz province on Thursday, police said.
19 Jul 2018 | 1:22 PMBEIRUT: Two pro-government villages in northwestern Syria were evacuated on Thursday, in an agreement between the Damascus government and insurgents who had laid siege to them for several years, state television reported.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:34 PMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he holds his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin personally responsible for the alleged meddling into the 2016 General Election.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:29 PMWASHINGTON: The Trump administration is working to ensure that Russia does not meddle in American elections as it did in the past, the White House said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:25 PMWASHINGTON: The US is making progress in its denuclearisation talks with North Korea, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who recently made his third trip to Pyongyang, said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:22 PMLOS ANGELES: A tractor operator was killed while trying to clear brush around a massive wildfire in central Oregon and two firefighters were injured battling a blaze burning at the edge of Yosemite in California, officials in the two states said on Wednesday.
19 Jul 2018 | 1:48 PMSHUANGFENG COUNTY: Liu Deke, 73, puffed away on a roll-up as he threshed stalks of dried rapeseed on a large canvas sheet. Nearby, plumes of billowy smoke from burning stalks drifted across the rice fields.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:09 PMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that the tax cuts undertaken by his administration more than six months ago and regulatory reforms have unleashed a new wave of economic growth.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:52 AMWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter to free an American pastor held in Turkey.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:49 AMUNITED NATIONS: Six Palestinian officials were denied visas by the United States to attend a high-level meeting on development at the United Nations in New York this week, the Palestinian ambassador said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:47 AMSEOUL: A South Korean court ruled on Thursday that the government and the operator of the Sewol ferry, which sank in 2014 killing 304 people mostly school children, must compensate the victims’ families.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:43 AMWOODSTOCK: A newspaper that has published every week since its founding in 1853 but recently lost its office in a fire has vowed it will publish this week’s issue, too.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:41 AMKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has detained seven people for suspected militant-linked activities, including a man who allegedly made death threats against the country’s king and prime minister, police said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018 | 12:00 PMUNITED NATIONS: Terming the Human Rights Council as the United Nations' "greatest failure", US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley on Thursday alleged that the institution has provided cover for the world's most inhumane regimes.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:35 AMBEIRUT: The evacuation of all civilians from two loyalist Syrian villages that were besieged by rebels in the northwest is complete, Syria’s Ikhbariya television said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018 | 11:04 AMBEIJING: China’s foreign-exchange regulator said it has to assess the impact of trade friction on capital flows and will use “counter-cyclical” measures to respond to short-term volatility, but expressed confidence Beijing can cope with any challenge, given its “ample” reserves.