23 Jul 2018 | 12:42 PMCOLOMBO: Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered Sri Lanka a fresh grant of 2 billion yuan ($295 million), as Beijing tries to expand its influence in the tiny island country off India’s southern tip.
23 Jul 2018 | 11:18 AMUS President Donald Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday not to threaten the United States or face the consequences, hours after Rouhani told Trump that hostile policies toward Tehran could lead to “the mother of all wars.”
23 Jul 2018 | 12:51 PMSIMI VALLEY: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today called the religious leaders of Iran “hypocritical holy men” who amassed vast sums of wealth while allowing their people to suffer
23 Jul 2018 | 1:11 PMLONDON: Intrastructure fund Wren House has agreed to buy oil and gas pipeline firm North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) for around 1.3 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) from ArcLight Capital, according to two sources.
23 Jul 2018 | 1:08 PMGILE (MOZAMBIQUE): From a distance, the Gile National Reserve in northern Mozambique is a vast, dense ocean of green that reaches as far as the horizon.
23 Jul 2018 | 1:05 PMHANOI: Vietnam on Monday suspended its minister of information and communications for mismanagement at a state telecoms firm, official state media Vietnam News Agency reported, amid a crackdown on corruption.
23 Jul 2018 | 12:22 PMSHANGHAI: A vaccine scandal in China, which has prompted angry reactions from leaders and citizens fed up with safety scares in the country, is sending ripples across the local drug market and threatening Chinese ambitions to play a larger global role.
23 Jul 2018 | 12:02 PMJALALABAD: Standing in a field of roses in eastern Afghanistan, former poppy grower Mohammad Din Sapai quickly but carefully plucks the delicate petals that will be turned into rose water and oils for sale around the world.
23 Jul 2018 | 11:49 AMJERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Poll Position in Pakistan23 Jul 2018 | 10:28 AMISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court on Sunday said it had begun reviewing statements made by a judge alleging the country’s spy agencies were influencing judicial proceedings, as the powerful military called for an investigation.
General election on July 2523 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMISLAMABAD:Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif has said that people can change his name if he does not take Pakistan ahead of India after coming into power, according to a media report today.
23 Jul 2018 | 11:47 AMLONDON: British police have arrested three men in London after suspected acid attack on a three-year-old boy in the English city of Worcester.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMISLAMABAD:Pakistan’s flamboyant cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan today received support from former cricketers, including Pakistani stars, in his bid to capture political power in the July 25 polls.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMJOHANNESBURG:South African police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers’ association, killing 11 persons and critically wounding four others.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMLOS ANGELES:A man shot his grandmother and girlfriend and then led the police on a car chase that ended when he crashed into a pole and ran inside a busy supermarket as bullets from officers shattered the front doors.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMKABUL:Afghan vice-president Abdul Rashid Dostum narrowly escaped a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport as he returned home on Sunday from more than a year in exile in Turkey over allegations of torturing and abusing a political rival.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMMILAN/LONDON:Sergio Marchionne bowed out on Saturday as one of the auto industry’s most demanding and tenacious chief executives, his health in crisis after a career in which he rescued Fiat and Chrysler, two of its most storied brands.
Globe trot23 Jul 2018 | 2:20 AMHouston: The personal collection of Neil Armstrong, the first man to have set foot on the moon, is to be sold in a series of auctions later this year and in 2019.
23 Jul 2018 | 2:26 AMAMMAN:Jordan said today that it has taken in 800 Syrian White Helmets rescuers and their families from Israel and plans to transfer them to the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany.
22 Jul 2018 | 9:13 PMKABUL: A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people and wounded 14 at the entrance to Kabul international airport today, officials said, as scores gathered to welcome home Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile.
22 Jul 2018 | 6:27 PMKARACHI: The suicide bomber who recently killed nearly 150 people at an election meeting in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province had studied at a religious seminary in Karachi before travelling to Afghanistan for militant training, police confirmed on Sunday.
22 Jul 2018 | 3:34 PMBEIJING: A scandal over faulty vaccines in China has sparked anger on social media, underscoring the difficulties regulators face in rebuilding trust after years of food and drug safety controversies.
Pakistan polls22 Jul 2018 | 2:41 PMPESHAWAR: A suicide bomber injured a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate and killed his driver and guard in Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan’s troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province today, police said.
22 Jul 2018 | 2:11 PMJAKARTA: A 15-year-old Indonesian who was raped by her brother has been sentenced to six months in prison for abortion.
22 Jul 2018 | 3:38 PMWASHINGTON: The Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure Iran to end its nuclear program and its support of militant groups, US officials familiar with the matter said.
22 Jul 2018 | 1:49 PMJERUSALEM: Israel will reopen Gaza's main commercial crossing and expand the Palestinian fishing zone off the blockaded enclave's coast on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.
22 Jul 2018 | 3:38 PMDUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “America should know ... war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” the state new agency IRNA reported.
22 Jul 2018 | 1:22 PMISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif has said that people can change his name if he does not take Pakistan ahead of India after coming into power, according to a media report on Sunday.
22 Jul 2018 | 1:19 PMAMMAN: Jordan said on Sunday that it has taken in 800 Syrian White Helmets rescuers and their families from Israel and plans to transfer them to the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany.
22 Jul 2018 | 1:12 PMWASHINGTON: American officials are meeting former Afghan Taliban leaders amid intensifying efforts by the Trump administration to seek a negotiated settlement of the country's longest war, according to a media report.
22 Jul 2018 | 3:04 PMCAIRO: Egypt’s government says it rejects a controversial legislation passed by Israel’s Parliament defining Israel as a nation-state of the Jewish people.
22 Jul 2018 | 12:29 PMWASHINGTON:Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
22 Jul 2018 | 12:24 PMLAHORE: Pakistani cleric Hafiz Saeed is one of the United States’ most-wanted terrorist suspects, accused over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. At home, his charities are banned, as is a new Islamist political party launched by his followers.
22 Jul 2018 | 12:19 PMN'DJAMENA: Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said on Sunday.
22 Jul 2018 | 11:36 AMBRIDGEWATER: The top US intelligence official said he meant no disrespect to President Donald Trump in a televised interview discussing the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
22 Jul 2018 | 2:46 PMLOS ANGELES: Police in Los Angeles arrested a man who took hostages and barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe's grocery store on Saturday, ending a three-hour standoff during which he fatally shot a woman, authorities said.
22 Jul 2018 | 11:27 AMBRIDGEWATER: A US Air Force fighter jet intercepted a small general aviation aircraft flying near President Donald Trump’s private golf club.
22 Jul 2018 | 11:25 AMPARIS: The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency deepened with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May.
22 Jul 2018 | 3:39 PMLONDON: Britain will only pay its EU divorce bill if the bloc agrees the framework for a future trade deal, the new Brexit Secretary warned in an interview published on Sunday.
22 Jul 2018 | 11:21 AMMANAGUA: Hundreds of protesters marched in Nicaragua’s capital in defiance of an iron-fisted crackdown on dissent by President Daniel Ortega that includes a new law threatening them with up to 20 years in prison for “terrorism”.
22 Jul 2018 | 11:19 AMWASHINGTON: The FBI on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 US election.
22 Jul 2018 | 10:59 AMISLAMABAD: A leading PML-N candidate for the July 25 General Election was arrested and sent to Adiala jail after he was convicted by a court and handed down life imprisonment in a six-year old case, in another setback to jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
22 Jul 2018 | 1:47 PMISLAMABAD: There is the ecologist, the “semi-corrupt”, the opportunist, and the indestructible. Alongside Pakistan’s mainstream politicians, a battery of flamboyant candidates are contesting nationwide elections on July 25.
22 Jul 2018 | 12:04 AMGAZA/JERUSALEM: A truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, largely held on Saturday a day after one of the most fierce flare-ups along the volatile border in years.