SEOUL: South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in today said his government was always ready to talk with Japan over historic disputes.Moon’s comments were made in a speech celebrating 75 years of liberation from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation of the peninsula.The Asian neighbours are at loggerheads over a 2018 decision by South Korea’s […]
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WASHINGTON: Normalised diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could pave the way for more US weapons sales to the Gulf Arab country, according to experts. Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday (Aug 13) that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship under […]
NEW YORK: The United States lost a bid to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran yesterday as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over a US threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Tehran. Russia and China opposed extending […]
WASHINGTON: Taiwan finalised the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from US aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin on Friday (Aug 14), a source confirmed to AFP, in a US$62 billion, 10-year deal sure to anger Beijing. Underscoring the sensitivity of the transaction, the Pentagon announced the contract without specifying the buyer, but […]
DETROIT: Former President Barack Obama said on Friday (Aug 14) he worries about protecting the integrity of November’s election in view of efforts by President Donald Trump to “kneecap” the US Postal Service to limit Americans voting by mail during the pandemic. Obama, speaking on a podcast with David Plouffe, […]
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday (Aug 11), a landmark pick that puts the senator in contention to become America’s first female, and first black vice-president. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris is also the first […]
The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday’s blast, the biggest ever to hit Beirut, that killed 158 people and injured more than 6,000. Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks […]
Negotiations broke down this week between the White House and top Democrats in Congress over how best to help Americans cope with the heavy human and economic toll of the crisis. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Saturday partly restoring enhanced unemployment payments to the tens of millions of […]
MANILA: The Philippines will soon be sending a chartered flight to Lebanon to bring back Filipinos impacted by a massive explosion at the port of Beirut as early as next week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Saturday. “The DFA is paying P15,000,000 ($305,643) from its funds for […]
In the toughest US action on Hong Kong since China imposed a sweeping new security law on the territory, Washington on Friday sanctioned a group of Chinese and Hong Kong officials — including the city’s leader Carrie Lam. China on Saturday slammed the United States for imposing “barbarous” sanctions in […]