Washington: President Donald Trump welcomed surviving Apollo 11 crew members Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the White House Friday, using the occasion to tell his space chief he would prefer to go straight to Mars without returning to the Moon. It is a theme he had touched upon earlier this month in a tweet, […]
The United States should reject “prejudice” and respect facts instead of vilifying China’s record on religious rights, the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily said on Saturday after fresh criticism of China’s treatment of ethnic Muslims. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo branded China’s treatment of its Uighur minority in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang […]
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday became Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, surpassing the record set by the country’s founding father, David Ben Gurion. Netanyahu has led for 13 years and 127 days – one day more than Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister. He has held this role for 4,873 of Israel’s 25,981 days of existence, which […]
Washington: After years of discord over Afghanistan, United States President Donald Trump will push Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to pressure the Taliban to strike a peace deal, with the aim of extricating from US’ longest war, a Trump administration official said on Friday. Khan will be embarking on a three-day maiden official visit to […]
The Berkeley City Council in California, US, voted to remove gendered pronouns from its municipal code, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The vote followed a city clerk review that found that the municipal code primarily contained masculine pronouns. “Having a male-centric municipal code is inaccurate and not reflective of our reality,” council member Rigel […]
SAN FRANCISCO: You will soon be able to know why certain tweets go unavailable in your conversation thread on Twitter. The micro-blogging platform is working on to “add context” to “this tweet is unavailable” notices. “We’re fixing the issue where you see so many ‘This Tweet is unavailable’ notices in conversations. This is usually due […]
The Trump Administration Friday expressed doubts over Pakistan’s intentions in arresting terrorist Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, the mastermind of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying his previous arrests made no difference either to his activities or that of his outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. “We’ve seen this happen in the past. And we have […]
Washington: The Trump administration Friday expressed doubts over Pakistan’s intentions in arresting Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying his previous arrest made no difference either to his activities or that of his outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. “We’ve seen this happen in the past. And we have been looking for sustained and concrete steps, […]
China: The death toll from a huge explosion that rocked a gas plant in central China rose to 10, state media said Saturday, with five people still missing. Friday’s blast at the Henan Coal Gas Group factory left another 19 people seriously injured and more with light injuries, said state broadcaster CCTV. The blast shattered […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday due to graft and bad governance the country’s debt reached Rs 30,000 billion from Rs 6,000 billion and the anti-corruon drive will continue until all those involved in it are brought to justice.Addressing the ground-breaking ceremony of a hospital at Namal Institute in his native Mianwali area of […]
WASHINGTON:Following the lobbying by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, US President Donald Trump on Friday urged Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to interfere and “resolve” the issue of rapper A$AP Rocky’s incarceration. “Just spoke to @KanyeWest about his friend A$AP Rocky’s incarceration. I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see […]
Beijing: China is calling on Washington to “correct” sanctions imposed on Chinese companies accused of helping Iran acquire materials for its nuclear programme. A foreign ministry spokesman on Friday said US pressure on Iran and its “long-arm jurisdiction” against companies in third countries is the “root cause” of tension with Tehran. The spokesman, Geng Shuang, […]
LONDON: A British Sikh group lobbying for Sikhism to be added as a separate ethnicity tick box in the next UK census in 2021 has said it has begun its legal action against the UK government over its rejection of such a categorisation. Sikh Federation UK claims to have the support of 150 Gurdwaras and […]
Eight individuals, including Subhash Kapoor who achieved notoriety on allegations of antiques trafficking, were charged in a Manhattan court last week in connection with the looting and trafficking of antiquities, a criminal complaint filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office revealed. Mr. Kapoor is allegedly the ring leader of a network that trafficked in thousands […]
New Delhi: The Afghan intelligence agency– National Directorate of Security or NDS has said that the Kandahar terror attack was organised and directed from Chaman from Pakistan. Chaman is the 2nd largest city of Pakistan’s northwest Balochistan province and borders Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. NDS will be releasing all the details of how the attack was […]
PHILADELPIA: A man scaled several floors down the side of a 19-story building in Philadelphia to escape a fire that injured four residents and three police officers. The fire at the Holden Tower apparently began in a trash chute about 9:30 pm on Thursday, causing flames to shoot out and spread heavy smoke to all […]
An Israeli spyware firm has told clients it can scoop user data from the world’s top social media, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The London-based newspaper wrote that NSO group had “told buyers its technology can surretiously scrape all of an individual’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, according […]
An explosion on Friday near a gate to the campus of Kabul University in the Afghan capital killed six people and injured at least 27 as students waited to take an examination, officials said. Afghan security forces are facing almost daily attacks by Taliban militants, despite reported progress in efforts by the United States to […]
At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in an explosion near the Kabul University on Friday. The blast took place in Police District 3 (PD3 area in the city, local media reported. The casualties were confirmed by Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry’s spokesperson Wahidullah Mayar. A number of students were waiting outside the […]
What’s the worst thing about flying economy? Is it the very little leg room? The bland food or chatty passengers? Or is it sitting in the middle seat like you’re trying to avoid catching a virus? We have all sat awkwardly sandwiched in between two people and fought – discreetly – for elbow room on […]
PARIS: Thousands of extra French police are set to be on duty later Friday in Paris and other major cities following clashes involving Algerian football fans that have touched off a debate about national identity. Algeria play Senegal in the final of the African Cup of Nations on Friday evening with excitement high in France […]
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the Moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission — an extraordinary feat celebrated by Google with a Doodle video on Friday. The Doodle video is in the voice of Command Module Pilot (CMP Michael Collins who […]
A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media said on Friday after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan’s worst mass killing in two decades. The 41-year-old man “seemed to be discontented, he seemed to get angry, […]
A day after Russia offered its 4++ Generation Sukhoi Su-35 combat aircraft to Turkey, there is a possibility that Ankara will issue a statement on it. Russian website Sputniknews reported a Turkish military source as saying that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will look into the Su-35 offer. “It is still premature to talk about Turkey’s […]
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-corruon court here on Friday dismissed a plea against jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz for allegedly submitting a fake document in the high-profile Avenfield Apartments case. Maryam, 45, the vice president of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N was accused of providing a fake trust deed during the hearing […]