WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said he was holding off on declaring a state of emergency to end the partial US government shutdown that dragged into a 23rd day Sunday, as he insisted on $5.7 billion to build a Mexico border wall that congressional Democrats oppose.
Asked by Fox News why he...
YANGON : A Myanmar judge dismissed an appeal Friday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya, dashing slim hopes that the pair could be freed early.
Reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were arrested in Yangon in December...
MCALLEN, United States : President Donald Trump has again threatened to declare a national emergency along the border with Mexico as he seeks funding for a wall he says will keep out dangerous immigrants — his latest jab in a fight with Democrats in Congress that has now shut down parts of...
BEIJING : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday on an unannounced visit for talks with President Xi Jinping, as preparations ramp up for an expected second summit with Donald Trump.
China is the isolated, nuclear-armed North’s key diplomatic ally and main source of...
SEOUL : South Korea’s presidential Blue House on Tuesday welcomed the visit by Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to China, as it was anticipated to contribute to building peace on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Eui-keum, the Blue House spokesman...
TOKYO : Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn told a Tokyo court on Tuesday that he was innocent of any crimes in his first public appearance since he was arrested on Nov. 19 and charged with false financial reporting. “Your honor, I am innocent of the accusations against me,” Ghosn told...
KARACHI : The textile industry’s biggest exhibition, Heimtextil, is set to kick off in Frankfurt on January 8. About 222 Pakistani companies have headed to Germany to take advantage of the fair and win over European and other buyers.
Exporters believe that the Heimtextil exhibition will play a...
TOKYO : A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1 million for a giant tuna Saturday as Tokyo’s new fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first pre-dawn New Year’s auction. Bidding stopped at a whopping 333.6 million yen for the enormous...
WASHINGTON : Police in California on Saturday said three people were killed and four were injured in a shooting at a bowling alley near Los Angeles. Sergeant Ronald Harris of the Torrance Police Department confirmed to AFP that officers responded at 11:54 pm on Friday to reports of gunfire at...
New Delhi [India] : Seven people were killed after the wall of a factory in West Delhi’s Moti Nagar area collapsed on Thursday. Moreover, eight individuals sustained injuries in the incident. Out of these, four have been admitted to Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital, while the other four are...
