SEOUL:US analysts have claimed a North Korean satellite station, suspected of being used to test intercontinental ballistic missiles, has returned to “normal operational status” despite a pledge to dismantle it. The move could threaten future denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang, following the collapse of the second Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi in February. In a…
WASHINGTON: The wife of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 expressed bitter frustration Thursday about efforts to get her husband back home.Christine Levinson told a House panel that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance of her husband, Robert, but she also said three American administrations have failed to press the…
WASHINGTON: The wife of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 expressed bitter frustration Thursday about efforts to get her husband back home.Christine Levinson told a House panel that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance of her husband, Robert, but she also said three American administrations have failed to press the…
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living, she says. Gharsalli, 47, grew up with three brothers and six sisters on her family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of land…
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living, she says. Gharsalli, 47, grew up with three brothers and six sisters on her family’s 7 hectares (17 acres) of land…
MOSUL: A car bomb blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday killed at least two people — a child and a member of the security forces — and wounded 10 others, a local medical official said.Security sources reported earlier that the blast in Mosul’s Muthanna district wounded at least five security personnel,…
NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: Defeated but unrepentant, some militants limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise Daesh and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies. The skeletal and dishevelled figures shuffling out of the smoldering ashes of the proto-state may look like a procession of zombies, but their devotion seems intact. At…
JEDDAH: The Iranian-backed Houthi militia committed 18 violations against the Swedish cease-fire agreement in Hodeidah during the last 24 hours, the Arab coalition said on Friday. The Stockholm Agreement was signed by the Yemeni government and Houthi representatives in December last year. The main points of the agreement were a prisoner exchange, steps toward a cease-fire in…
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JEDDAH: Finnish health specialists are seeking further cooperation on infection prevention with Saudi Arabia given its experience with handling mass gatherings during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, said a senior researcher at the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.Dr. Riika Mäkinen, who presented a paper on infection prevention at the recent Global Ministerial Patient Safety Summit in…
Jurgen Klopp not stressing over Mohamed Salah slump, praises ‘unbelievable record’ LONDON: Jurgen Klopp insisted Liverpool are in the Premier League title race thanks to Mohamed Salah's goals despite the Egyptian's faltering form of late.Salah missed two huge chances as Liverpool drew for the fourth time in six league games in a 0-0 stalemate away…
Jurgen Klopp not stressing over Mohamed Salah slump, praises ‘unbelievable record’ LONDON: Jurgen Klopp insisted Liverpool are in the Premier League title race thanks to Mohamed Salah's goals despite the Egyptian's faltering form of late.Salah missed two huge chances as Liverpool drew for the fourth time in six league games in a 0-0 stalemate away…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said no militant group would be allowed to operate from Pakistani soil to carry out attacks abroad, days after his government announced a sweeping crackdown against militant organisations.Pakistan faces growing international pressure to rein in extremist groups that carry out attacks in neighbouring India.One such attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said no militant group would be allowed to operate from Pakistani soil to carry out attacks abroad, days after his government announced a sweeping crackdown against militant organisations.Pakistan faces growing international pressure to rein in extremist groups that carry out attacks in neighbouring India.One such attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir…
Britain hands jailed British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection LONDON: Britain will hand diplomatic protection to British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to underline the government’s belief that Iran has behaved unjustly in its treatment of her, foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday.Hunt said while the move, a little-used way for governments to seek protection…
KUALA LUMPUR: On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, triggering the biggest hunt in aviation history.Only a few fragments of the jet have been found, all on western Indian Ocean shores, and search efforts ended last year.The disappearance has spawned a host of theories —…
WASHINGTON/SEOUL: US President Donald Trump is open to additional talks with Pyongyang over denuclearization, his national security adviser said on Thursday, despite reports that North Korea is reactivating parts of its missile program.New activity has been detected at a factory that produced North Korea’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching the United States,…
ALGIERS: Several lawmakers of Algeria's ruling FLN party have resigned to join mass anti-government protests, the private Ashourouq TV station said on Friday. Tens of thousands of Algerians defied heavily deployed riot police on Friday and resumed mass protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika posing the biggest threat to his 20-year-old rule.Unusually, one of the most popular…
CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters chanted anti-government slogans after leaving prayers at a major mosque near Sudan's capital on Friday, drawing tear-gas volleys from police, eyewitnesses said.The demonstration in the city of Omdurman, which started outside Al-Sayed Abd al-Rahman Al-Mahdi mosque that has ties to the opposition Umma party, was the latest in a series of…
OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: Holdout Daesh fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces pressed to expel them from the last scrap of their dying “caliphate.”Thousands of men and women have poured out of the pocket of territory in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border in recent…
