ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office said on Wednesday it has no objection to the decision by a UN Security Council committee to blacklist Masood Azhar, the head of the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).Azhar’s Pakistan-based group is accused of carrying out several high-profile attacks in India and Western powers for years have been calling for him to…
BHUBANESWAR, India: India deployed emergency personnel Wednesday and ordered the navy on standby as it braced for an extremely severe cyclonic storm barrelling toward the eastern coast.Tropical Cyclone Fani, located in the Bay of Bengal and packing wind speeds up to 205 kilometers (127 miles) per hour, is expected to make landfall at Odisha state…
CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido Tuesday called for a military uprising to oust President Nicolas Maduro and armed factions exchanged gunfire outside a Caracas air base as the country hit a new crisis point after years of political and economic chaos.Several dozen armed men in military uniform accompanying Guaido clashed with soldiers supporting Maduro…
DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress Party rubbished a notice sent by the government to its leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, asking him to answer questions about his citizenship. The notice comes at the peak of the general election campaign, with both the Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fighting bitterly for the remaining 169…
NEW DELHI: Pictures of a “Yeti footprint” the Indian Army posted on social media triggered a barrage of jokes Tuesday. “For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast ‘Yeti’,” an apparently serious — though misspelled — tweet on the army’s official account said Monday, alongside three images of…
CHICAGO: Boeing Co CEO Dennis Muilenburg emerged with his job intact at an annual meeting on Monday and promised to win back the public's trust after facing tough questions in the wake of two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX plane.Battling the biggest crisis of his nearly four years as chief executive officer, Muilenburg survived…
NEW DELHI: India’s general elections on Monday entered a crucial stage with the fourth round of polls taking place in areas where the majority of seats are held by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partners. Of the 71 seats being contested in nine states, 56 are in the hands of the BJP-led…
NEW DELHI: India’s general elections on Monday entered a crucial stage with the fourth round of polls taking place in areas where the majority of seats are held by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partners. Of the 71 seats being contested in nine states, 56 are in the hands of the BJP-led…
0 The announcement happened after US did not renew sanction waivers for Iranian oil Iranian Foreign Minister said he will visit North Korea By Reuters · 28 April 2019 Update 0 Deposit part of $3 billion grant to Sudan announced by UAE and Saudi Arabia Nations called for "stability" and "peaceful transition" in days following…
Don’t paint us all with the same brush, Sri Lankan Muslims plead after terror attack NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented development, following an attack on April 21 which killed at least 250 Christians on Easter Sunday, several mosques across Sri Lanka did not conduct special prayers on Friday, marking a first for the country where…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has accepted US President Donald Trump’s offer to help investigate deadly blasts that struck churches and hotels, as the island nation marked a week since the devastating attacks.Suicide bombers attacked multiple sites inside and outside the capital on Easter Sunday, killing 268 people and injuring more than 500.A week has passed since…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president is banning two groups allegedly linked to the Easter bombings under emergency powers that came into effect on Tuesday. The office of President Maithripala Sirisena said in a statement Saturday evening that National Thawheed Jammath, or NTJ, and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem, or JMI, would be banned by presidential decree. Presidential spokesman…
BEIJING, BEIRUT: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he did not rule out Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, launching a full-scale assault on militants in Syria’s Idlib province, but that such an operation was unpractical for now. Speaking in Beijing, Putin said that Moscow and Damascus would continue what he called the…
BOSASO, Somalia: A US airstrike killed three Daesh militants in the Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Friday, a US military official said, two weeks after the group’s deputy leader was killed in a strike.A witness said missiles struck two wells on the outskirts of Timirshe village, some 60km southeast of Puntland’s commercial capital Bosaso. The…
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Daesh, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 253, as shooting erupted in the east during a raid.Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home after the State Intelligence Services warned of possible car bomb…
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Daesh, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 253, as shooting erupted in the east during a raid.Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home after the State Intelligence Services warned of possible car bomb…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday it is possible that the United States and Japan could reach a new bilateral trade deal by the time he visits Tokyo in May, but he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cited areas where they differ on trade.Trump and Abe held one-on-one talks in the Oval Office…
WASHINGTON: The US envoy negotiating with the Taliban voiced regret Thursday over findings that US-backed forces were killing more civilians than the militants, and said the solution was a peace deal. A UN report released found that international and pro-government forces were responsible for the deaths of 305 civilians in the first three months of…
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to go to war with Canada was just a “figure of speech” the country’s defense minister said, amid increasing anger in the southeast Asian nation over a garbage disposal issue. Duterte told the Cabinet earlier this week that he had given Canada a deadline to take back tons of…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Catholic churches suspended all public services over security fears on Thursday, as thousands of troops joined the hunt for suspects in deadly Easter bombings. A senior priest said that all public services were being suspended and all churches closed “on the advice of security forces.” Authorities revised the death toll down to…
