“Get back, get back,” screamed the British soldier at a crowd gathered in front of the secure compound where those being evacuated by the UK embassy are taken before flying out. In front of him, many frantically waved their British passports in the air, hoping to be allowed through but […]
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MELBOURNE: Australia’s New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase in locally acquired COVID-19 cases of the year on Sunday (Jul 25) amid fears of a wave of new infections after thousands of people joined an anti-lockdown protest. “In relation to yesterday’s protests, can I say how absolutely disgusted I […]
WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will make clear to China in upcoming talks that Washington welcomes competition with Beijing, but there needs to be a level playing field and guardrails to prevent that spilling over into conflict, senior US officials said today. The officials, briefing ahead of […]
Weakened by pro-Iran factions at home, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet with US President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss a possible full US troop withdrawal from his country. BAGHDAD: Weakened by pro-Iran factions at home, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will meet with US President Joe Biden […]
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping is on a rare trip to China’s politically sensitive region of Tibet, state media reported Friday, the first such visit by the country’s top leader in more than three decades. Tibet has alternated over the centuries between independence and control by China, which says it “peacefully […]
BEIJING: China on Thursday said a WHO proposal to audit Chinese labs as part of further investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic showed “disrespect” and “arrogance towards science”. Last week, the World Health Organization said a second stage of the international probe should include audits of Chinese labs, […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haitian police announced on Sunday (Jul 11) that they had arrested a Haitian national “who had political objectives” in recruiting the gunmen who assassinated President Jovenel Moise last week. “This is an individual who entered Haiti on a private plane with political objectives,” said Leon Charles, head of […]
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Sunday (Jul 11) upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the flashpoint region would draw a US response under a mutual defence treaty. […]
NICOSIA: The European Union will “never, ever” accept a two-state deal on ethnically split Cyprus, the head of its executive branch said on Thursday (Jul 8). Ursula von der Leyen, who was visiting Cyprus, said that the EU spoke with one voice on the conflict, which has dragged on for […]
HERAT, Afghanistan: Taliban fighters on motorbikes roamed a provincial Afghan capital on Thursday (Jul 8) after a day of heavy fighting that saw them storm the city in their most brazen assault since the United States stepped up its troop withdrawal. The government flew in hundreds of commandos to Qala-i-Naw […]