ISLAMABAD : The Pakistani government decided to reinstate a ban on two organizations already been placed in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions committee’s consolidated list, after a suicide attack in the India-controlled Kashmir, an official statement said.
The...
WASHINGTON : US-China trade talks aimed at ending a damaging tariff war will resume from Tuesday in Washington, the White House has announced. The last set of talks ended Friday in Beijing with no deal, though US President Donald Trump said the discussions were going “extremely well”...
TOKYO : Honda announced Tuesday it would shut a major plant in Britain, putting 3,500 jobs at risk as the auto manufacturer became the latest Japanese firm to downsize operations as Brexit looms. The factory in Swindon, southwest England, is Honda’s only EU plant and has produced the...
BANGKOK : Over 10,000 Thais have been verified as candidates running for MP in the March 24 election, local media reported Tuesday. The Election Commission (EC) verified a total of 10,792 candidates contesting 350 individual constituencies in the nationwide race to parliament, Thai media Matichon...
CHICAGO : Three children and a woman were found dead of apparent gunshot wounds at a property in rural northern Kent County in the U.S. Midwestern state of Michigan Monday afternoon. The property is located in Solon Township, northwest of Cedar Springs.The Kent County Sheriff’s Department...
SACRAMENTO : California and 15 other states filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a statement Monday saying the suit alleges the Trump...
MIAMI : US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Venezuela’s military to accept opposition leader Juan Guaido’s amnesty offer, or stand to “lose everything,” as a crisis deepened over President Nicolas Maduro’s refusal to let in desperately needed humanitarian...
BEIJING : The founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei has hit back at US efforts to blacklist the company, saying defiantly that the world cannot do without Huawei and its “more advanced” technology.
“There’s no way the US can crush us,” Ren Zhengfei said in an...
HONG KONG : Banking giant HSBC said on Tuesday that pre-tax profit rose 16 percent to $19.9 billion last year with growth across its global businesses despite a “challenging external environment in the fourth quarter”.
The results capped the first full year at the helm of the...
UNITED NATIONS, United States :Yemen’s government and Huthi rebels have agreed on the first phase of a pullback of forces from the key city of Hodeida, in a deal the United Nations described Sunday as important progress. The redeployment from Hodeida is a critical part of a ceasefire deal...
