WASHINGTON: Washington has dispatched a special envoy for Afghanistan to press for peace talks between the government and Taliban fighters, with the diplomat scheduled to visit Kabul on a trip with stops in five nations, the US State Department said on Saturday (Jul 25). US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay […]
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MILAN: The governor of Lombardy, the Italian region hardest hit by the coronavirus, denied wrongdoing on Saturday (Jul 25) after he was placed under investigation for suspected fraud over a supply of medical equipment from a company owned by his brother-in-law. Magistrates are investigating Attilio Fontana, 68, a member of […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey and Greece exchanged harsh words on Saturday (Jul 25) over the conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque, a day after Islamic prayers were held at the ancient site for the first time in nine decades. President Tayyip Erdogan, who attended Friday’s ceremony that sealed his ambition […]
WASHINGTON: A Singaporean pleaded guilty Friday (Jul 24) to using his political consultancy in the United States as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, the US Justice Department said. Yeo Jun Wei, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered his plea in federal court in Washington to one charge […]
Yeo Jun Wei Dickson targeted US citizens with valuable “non-public information”, including an Army officer in the Pentagon, a civilian who worked with the US Air Force, and a person in the State Department. SINGAPORE: A National University of Singapore (NUS) PhD student who went to Beijing to give a […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Three polls released this week show gains for President Jair Bolsonaro, putting him as favorite to win re-election in 2022 despite his controversial handling of Brazil’s raging coronavirus crisis. The far-right leader, who is himself currently infected with the virus, has downplayed the pandemic even as it […]
WASHINGTON: A Chinese researcher who took refuge from US authorities at China’s consulate in San Francisco is now in American custody and is expected to appear in court on Monday (Jul 27), US Justice Department officials said. According to court filings in US District Court in San Francisco this week, […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (Jul 24) he was signing four executive orders aiming to lower prices that Americans pay for prescription drugs. One order would allow for the legal importation of cheaper prescription drugs from countries like Canada, while another would require discounts from drug companies […]
REUTERS: US prosecutors on Friday (JUl 24) unveiled charges against 18 Portland, Oregon, street protesters ranging from assaulting police to arson and trespassing, a day after the Trump administration expanded the deployment of tactical police into Seattle. Their arrests came this week during clashes with specially equipped federal police agents […]
MOSCOW: Moscow rejected criticism from the United States and the United Kingdom of Russia’s activities in space on Friday (Jul 24), after the two nations expressed concern at a Russian satellite test conducted on Jul 15. Britain on Thursday said Russia had launched a projectile with the “characteristics of a […]