Trump names Robert C. O'Brien as new national security adviser WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has named hostage negotiator Robert O'Brien to be his new national security adviser. Trump tweeted Wednesday that he has "worked long & hard" with O'Brien and that "he will do a great job!" I am pleased to announce that I…
LONDON: The British government was back at the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, arguing that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament just weeks before the country is set to leave the European Union was neither improper nor illegal.It’s the second day of a historic three-day hearing that pits the powers of Britain’s legislature…
DUBAI: Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig, Senior Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation, is now a member of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, bringing the total membership to eight concerned with the achievement of the objectives set forth in the Human Fraternity Document. Rabbi Lustig expressed his deep gratitude to Pope Francis, the head of the…
DUBAI: Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig, Senior Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation, is now a member of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, bringing the total membership to eight concerned with the achievement of the objectives set forth in the Human Fraternity Document. Rabbi Lustig expressed his deep gratitude to Pope Francis, the head of the…
KABUL: Taliban suicide attackers killed at least 30 people in Afghanistan on Tuesday, their deadliest bombing taking place near an election rally by President Ashraf Ghani, although he was unhurt. The attacks happened 11 days before Afghanistan’s presidential elections, which Taliban commanders have vowed to violently disrupt, and follow collapsed peace talks between the United…
TAIPEI: The Solomon Islands’ government has cut official ties with Taiwan in a new blow to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is seeking re-election in January amid rising tension with China.Taiwan now has formal relations with only 16 countries worldwide, but China claims Taiwan as its territory and says it has no right to formal ties…
TAIPEI: The Solomon Islands’ government has cut official ties with Taiwan in a new blow to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is seeking re-election in January amid rising tension with China.Taiwan now has formal relations with only 16 countries worldwide, but China claims Taiwan as its territory and says it has no right to formal ties…
TAIPEI: The Solomon Islands’ government has cut official ties with Taiwan in a new blow to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is seeking re-election in January amid rising tension with China.Taiwan now has formal relations with only 16 countries worldwide, but China claims Taiwan as its territory and says it has no right to formal ties…
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself to The Incredible Hulk in a newspaper interview emphasizing his determination to take Britain out of the European Union next month.Johnson faces considerable legal and political hurdles but told the Mail on Sunday he will meet the Oct. 31 deadline no matter what.“The madder Hulk gets,…
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself to The Incredible Hulk in a newspaper interview emphasizing his determination to take Britain out of the European Union next month.Johnson faces considerable legal and political hurdles but told the Mail on Sunday he will meet the Oct. 31 deadline no matter what.“The madder Hulk gets,…
BERLIN: Berlin was the last place Helga Melmed had expected to see again. She was 14 when the Nazis forced her and her family onto a train from their home in the German capital to the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland, in 1941. That started a gruesome odyssey that later saw her imprisoned at Auschwitz…
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday visited the country’s flood-stricken southeastern regions, where five people have died and 3,500 forced to flee their homes, as train and air services were disrupted for yet another day. Since Wednesday, areas here suffered some of the heaviest daily rainfall on record, which caused chaos on the…
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday visited the country’s flood-stricken southeastern regions, where five people have died and 3,500 forced to flee their homes, as train and air services were disrupted for yet another day. Since Wednesday, areas here suffered some of the heaviest daily rainfall on record, which caused chaos on the…
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday visited the country’s flood-stricken southeastern regions, where five people have died and 3,500 forced to flee their homes, as train and air services were disrupted for yet another day. Since Wednesday, areas here suffered some of the heaviest daily rainfall on record, which caused chaos on the…
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan’s prime minister assured residents of disputed Kashmir on Friday that he will expose years-long Indian oppression and human rights violations in the region when he addresses the UN General Assembly this month.Imran Khan made the comments in his first speech to a rally in Pakistan-held Kashmir since the revocation of the special…
BAMAKO, Mali: Countries are only “slowly” making headway in meeting promises to relocate stranded refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya and Niger, a senior UN official says.Nearly 48,000 people are in Libya, some of whom are being held in detention camps, according to UN figures, while thousands of others have been evacuated to neighboring Niger, where…
BAMAKO, Mali: Countries are only “slowly” making headway in meeting promises to relocate stranded refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya and Niger, a senior UN official says.Nearly 48,000 people are in Libya, some of whom are being held in detention camps, according to UN figures, while thousands of others have been evacuated to neighboring Niger, where…
KABUL: A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan Special Forces base in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least four commandos, officials said, as violence continued to escalate following the collapse of peace talks between the United States and Taliban insurgents.The bomber blew up an explosives-laden minibus at the entrance to the camp in Chahar Asyab district,…
JAKARTA: Indonesia urged member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to respond collectively to the Israeli prime minister’s vow to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected next week.Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, described Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow as “dangerous.”In a statement issued on Wednesday, its Foreign…
Sales of Scotland’s Islamic tartan surge amid questions of religious, national identity LONDON: Sales of a specially designed Scottish Islamic tartan are soaring thanks to a surge of interest linked to timely questions of religious and national identity. The tartan was introduced seven years ago to stand alongside the traditional woolen fabrics that proudly represent…
