KATHMANDU (Nepal: Only last week Nepali mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa set a new record by climbing Everest a 23rd time. On Tuesday for good measure he did it again, expedition organisers said. “This is historic. He made his record climb this morning, guiding a team of Indian police,” Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks […]
Prime Minister Theresa May set out on Tuesday a “new deal” for Britain’s departure from the EU, offering sweeteners to opposition parties in her fourth attempt to break an impasse in Parliament over Brexit. Three years since Britain voted to leave the EU and almost two months after the planned departure date, Ms. May is […]
Tehran: Iran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said on Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats. Iranian officials made a point to stress that the uranium would be enriched only to the 3.67% limit set under the 2015 nuclear […]
BEIJING: China, which granted a rare permit for US Ambassador Terry Branstad to visit Tibet, on Monday hoped that the American envoy would make an “unbiased judgement” about the conditions in the Himalayan region especially on religion and the Tibetan culture. Branstad was travelling to China’s Qinhai province and the bordering Tibet Autonomous Region from […]
Germany will do everything to save the nuclear deal with Iran, the new German Ambassador to India, Walter J. Lindner, told The Hindu on Tuesday. His statement reflects the official position of Germany, which is working to prevent a conflict in the Persian Gulf and a consequent oil shock for nations like India. “Nuclear rivalry […]
A federal judge has ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s accountants, Mazars USA, to comply with a subpoena from the House of Representatives Oversight Committee and submit financial records related to Mr. Trump to the Committee. The Committee had subpoenaed financial records and communications from the accountants pertaining to Mr. Trump, his businesses and charity, from […]
Washington:US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday it was “quite possible” Iran was responsible for sabotage of Gulf oil interests as he prepared to brief lawmakers on rising tensions. Pompeo cautioned that the United States has not made “a definitive conclusion” that can be presented publicly over mysterious sabotage incidents of oil tankers off […]
The man accused of shooting dead 51 Muslim worshippers in the Christchurch mosque attacks was formally charged with terrorism for the first time on Tuesday, New Zealand police said. In addition to the terror charge, Brenton Tarrant also faces 51 charges of murder and 40 of attempted murder over the March 15 attacks. “The charge […]
Lahore:Pakistani authorities on Tuesday identified an Afghan national as the suicide bomber who triggered a blast outside a revered Sufi shrine here that killed 13 people, including five police personnel, on May 8. Police said Sadiqullah Momand entered Pakistan through Torkham area on May 6 and blew himself up near a police van at the […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand police have charged the man accused of murder in shootings at two Christchurch mosques in March with engaging in a terrorist act, the first time such a charge had been brought in the country`s history, they said on Tuesday. In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic […]
Joe Biden launches 2020 Presidential bid; says Trump is ‘divider in chief’ “We’ve got to win tomorrow, Fred,” Trump told a cheering rally crowd at a hangar at Williamsport Regional Airport. Trump’s visit to the key battleground state came two days after Biden held a campaign rally in Philadelphia, and the former vice president wasn’t […]
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed through DNA tests that one of the two suicide bombers who died in the Shangri-La Hotel bombing during Easter Sunday attacks was Zahran Cassim, the leader of the local jihadi group NTJ. Zahran, the mastermind behind the Easter blasts, led the attack on the Shangri-La hotel and was accompanied […]
Career diplomat Moin-ul-Haq has been appointed as Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to India to start a new process of engagement with the country where a new government will be formed soon, amid strained relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved appointments of over two dozen ambassadors in various countries […]
Washington has warned that Chinese-made drones could be giving spy agencies in Beijing “unfettered access” to stolen data, according to a report in American media. The Department of Homeland Security sent out an alert on Monday flagging drones built in China as a “potential risk to an organization’s information”, CNN reported. The US government has […]
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed through DNA tests that one of the two suicide bombers who died in the Shangri-La Hotel bombing during Easter Sunday attacks was Zahran Cassim, the leader of the local jihadi group NTJ. Zahran, the mastermind behind the Easter blasts, led the attack on the Shangri-La hotel and was accompanied […]
SYDNEY: Australia`s re-elected coalition said on Tuesday it would struggle to deliver tax breaks for tens of millions of voters by July 1, a cornerstone of its election campaign, as the central bank called for stimulus to aid a slowing economy. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said parliament may not convene in time to pass the tax […]
KATHMANDU:Only last week Nepali mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa set a new record by climbingEveresta 23rd time. On Tuesday for good measure he did it again, expedition organisers said. “This is historic. He made his record climb this morning, guiding a team of Indian police,” Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks said. A guide for […]
The Trump administration on Sunday began rolling out its long-awaited West Asia peace plan with an announcement of an “economic workshop” the US will host with Bahrain in June to seek investments for Palestine and other countries in the region impacted by the decades-old conflict. “This workshop is a pivotal opportunity to convene government, civil […]
Aggressive diplomacy needed for Pak to exit FATF grey list: official Sources in Pakistan say the Bangladesh High Commission visa section in Islamabad has been closed since Monday afternoon. Strict rules and instructions are placed to scrutinise each and every applicant before handing out visas. This is also applicable for few other countries as well. […]
Paris:A climber who sparked an evacuation of the Eiffel Tower on Monday was grabbed after clinging to the famous Paris landmark for more than six hours, officials said.The man, who was not immediately identified, “is in the hands of the emergency teams” deployed to the tower, which will reopen to visitors as normal early on […]
An Indian-origin man arrested a few years ago on his way to join the Islamic State (ISIS terrorist group in Syria and convicted of terror offences by a UK court last month was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment on Monday. Hanzalah Patel, from the British city of Leicester, denied the charges but was found guilty […]
On Monday, the leader of the Brexit Party in Britain, Nigel Farage, was doused with a milkshake while campaigning for the European Parliament elections. But this was not a one-off incident. Over the past few weeks, milkshakes seem to have become a tool of protest against right-wing political candidates. It all started when a video […]
KATHMANDU: Just a week after breaking his own record for the most number of summits on Mt Everest, Kami Rita Sherpa yet again climbed the world’s highest mountain on Tuesday morning. By achieving this feat, Sherpa has become the only Mountaineer in the world to hold the record for most Everest summits. Sherpa successfully climbed […]
E-commerce giant Amazon was on its way to running its own online neighbourhood on May 20 after the internet’s address keeper granted the “.amazon” domain to the company. After waiting in vain for years for the US online retail colossus and an alliance of South American countries to resolve their battle over the right to […]
Pakistan informed India directly and through its friends it would be “dangerous” to climb the escalation ladder when the two countries came close to firing missiles at each other during a standoff in February, former Pakistani foreign secretary Riaz Khokhar has said. Khokhar, who served as Pakistan’s envoy to India, the US and China, and […]