JAKARTA: Indonesian officials said Friday the situation in the country’s restive Papua region is getting back to normal following a series of riots that have hit the region since mid August. “I think the situation in Papua is developing well. The situation is back to normal and we hope it would continue to be better,”…
DUBAI: “It is a prize given to Africa, given to Ethiopia and I can imagine that the rest of Africa’s leaders will take it positively to work on (the) peace-building process on our continent.” This was the reaction of Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, when he was told by the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel…
STOCKHOLM: Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday and the 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.Handke, 76, was recognized for a body of work which includes novels, essays, notebooks and drama and “that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and…
LAHORE: Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested four aides of extremist leader Hafiz Saeed, the suspected mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terrorism financing charges, counter-terrorism police said.Saeed, arrested on the same charges, has been on judicial remand since July, a move welcomed by U.S. President Donald…
LAHORE: Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested four aides of extremist leader Hafiz Saeed, the suspected mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terrorism financing charges, counter-terrorism police said.Saeed, arrested on the same charges, has been on judicial remand since July, a move welcomed by U.S. President Donald…
NEW DELHI: New Delhi and Beijing announced on Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping would pay a two-day visit to India on Friday to hold a second informal summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over a year after they first met in Wuhan. The meeting will take place in Mamallapuram, a temple town located along…
NEW DELHI: New Delhi and Beijing announced on Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping would pay a two-day visit to India on Friday to hold a second informal summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over a year after they first met in Wuhan. The meeting will take place in Mamallapuram, a temple town located along…
MAKKAH: The Muslim World League (MWL) denounced on Tuesday two attacks on Jewish boys committed by Muslim students in Australia, calling them “appalling and barbaric” and “contrary to the doctrine of Islam.” Last week, Australian media broadcast images showing a Jewish student pressured to kneel and kiss the shoes of his Muslim classmate. According to local…
WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist Party officials it believes responsible for the detention or abuse of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province, the US State Department said on Tuesday.US officials have previously said the Trump administration was considering sanctions against officials linked to China’s crackdown on Muslims, including…
FBI ask public to help identify victims as US serial killer confesses to 93 murders LOS ANGELES: The FBI is asking for the public’s help in identifying dozens of victims of a convicted murderer who has confessed to strangling 93 people, claims the agency says are credible and make him the most prolific serial killer…
DAKAR: An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing minutes after taking off in Senegal on Tuesday because an engine had caught fire, an airport spokesman said.None of the 90 passengers or crew were injured, spokesman Tidiane Tamba told Reuters.The airline confirmed on Twitter that its Boeing 767 aircraft had to land…
COLOMBO: Thirty-five out of the 41 candidates who paid their deposits to contest the island’s Presidential elections were accepted by the Elections Commission in Colombo on Monday. The incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena did not contest for the second time for the President’s post. His party, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) did not nominate anyone for…
NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping will hold an informal summit in southern India on Friday, officials said, amid strains in their relationship.The meeting follows months of niggling between the world’s two most populous nations over trade, border disputes, and their respective diplomatic moves.India’s foreign ministry has not formally…
BRUSSELS: European officials warned Monday that Britain’s latest Brexit proposal won’t serve as a basis for a breakthrough before next week’s Brussels summit.With no draft deal on the table before the October 17 meeting, Britain and Europe will face either a chaotic break-up or yet another Brexit delay.Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted he will…
NEW DELHI: Ravish Kumar is nervous about the “danger that Indian democracy is facing today” and how “a systematic attempt is being made by the ruling establishment in Delhi to suppress all the dissenting voices in the country. “Journalism prepares you to face the unknown everyday, so I was not really surprised when I got the…
KABUL: Biometric machines key for the validity of last week’s presidential election in Afghanistan have gone missing, officials for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Sunday. The results sheet and all related documents from the election have arrived in Kabul. IEC officials said that the government-appointed body will verify the discrepancy between the results sheets…
KABUL: Biometric machines key for the validity of last week’s presidential election in Afghanistan have gone missing, officials for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Sunday. The results sheet and all related documents from the election have arrived in Kabul. IEC officials said that the government-appointed body will verify the discrepancy between the results sheets…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia unveiled a new national economic blueprint on Saturday as the country tackles its longstanding problems of corruption and economic inequality. “We want to make sure economic opportunities and economic outcomes are distributed fairly to all Malaysians,” said Prime Minister Mahathir Muhamad. The new plan, Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, is the continuation of a…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia unveiled a new national economic blueprint on Saturday as the country tackles its longstanding problems of corruption and economic inequality. “We want to make sure economic opportunities and economic outcomes are distributed fairly to all Malaysians,” said Prime Minister Mahathir Muhamad. The new plan, Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, is the continuation of a…
LONDON: The wife of an American diplomat has left the country after reportedly becoming a suspect in a fatal traffic accident.Police in Northamptonshire said Saturday they had been treating an unidentified 42-year-old woman as a suspect and that she had indicated she didn’t plan to leave Britain.The woman has been widely described across British media…
