SEOUL: South Korea started talks with China’s top diplomat today, the first visit by a high-level Beijing official since the new coronavirus emerged in China late last year. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea’s new national security adviser, Suh Hoon, in the southern […]
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Investigators are trying to determine whether the threat is credible, the FBI said in a statement. At least two federal buildings in Portland have been closed and the FBI is investigating after a car bomb threat was made, the officials said Friday. The threat, which was received Thursday, warned of […]
VANCOUVER: Canada has released as much information as it legally can about the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the government’s lawyers said yesterday, as she sought more confidential documents relating to her 2018 detention. Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a […]
SINGAPORE: Reverend Eileen Harrop has never courted fame, she said. But in a strange twist of fate, she has gone global, after being pictured giving Communion to her congregants with a pair of long chopsticks. Appearing on several major UK media outlets – including Sky News, the British Broadcasting Corporation […]
KABUL: Trailblazing Afghan women’s rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the negotiating team that will hold peace talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday (Aug 15). Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister on Friday when they were […]
TAIPEI: A senior member of US President Donald Trump’s administration will land in Taiwan on Sunday (Aug 9) for Washington’s highest level visit since switching diplomatic recognition to China in 1979, a move Beijing has condemned. During the three-day trip Health Secretary Alex Azar will meet President Tsai Ing-wen, an […]
The Senior Superintendent of Police South Sheeraz Nazeer said that the suspect confessed to “killing his sister for honour”. A man shot his sister in the head for ‘honour’ in Karachi’s Clifton area on Saturday, said the police. According to Dawn, the accused identified as Hasamin Qamar who shot his […]
BEIRUT: Riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building in Beirut on Saturday (Aug 8) during a protest over the government’s handling of this week’s devastating explosion in the city. About 7,000 people gathered in Martyrs’ Square in the […]
BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities have arrested 16 people in an investigation into the Beirut port warehouse explosion, state news agency NNA said on Thursday (Aug 6), and a judicial source and local media said the port’s general manager was among those being held. NNA did not name the individuals, but quoted […]
Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city’s port for nearly seven years without appropriate security precautions that officials warned was “a floating bomb.” The Russian vessel, named MV Rhosus, carrying […]