Tag: Crisis

Seminar held to sensitise public on prevalent economic crisis

-- ‘We need to reduce 20% of military expenditure to stop economic crisis in Pakistan’ KARACHI: All economies are required to maintain foreign exchange reserves...

Locals strive for clean drinking water amid acute shortage in Dera...

Deprived of basic facilities, people across the suburbs of Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district cannot remember when they last had access to clean drinking water. Facing...

India warns of ‘extremely grave’ crisis as flood toll rises

KOCHI: Hundreds of troops led a desperate operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floods in India's Kerala state Thursday as the death toll...

Military option ‘unacceptable’ on North Korea crisis, says S Korea minister

DAVOS: South Korea’s foreign minister said on Thursday the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program must be resolved diplomatically, and she was certain Washington...

Richardson quits Myanmar Rohingya crisis panel

YANGON: Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it...

China preps for N Korea crisis: deploys troops, cameras, radiation 

BEIJING: China ramped up security along its border with North Korea, installing new surveillance cameras, deploying extra security forces and operating radiation detectors as...

‘Most severe’ crisis ever for UN Palestinian agency after US freeze

RAMALLAH: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces its worst funding crisis ever after the United States froze tens of millions of dollars in...

Emmanuel Macron wades into Calais migrant crisis

CALAIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will defend his controversial immigration policy on Tuesday in the northern port of Calais, long a magnet for refugees...

Japan examines to evacuate citizens from South Korea in crisis

TOKYO: Japan is examining how to evacuate its roughly 60,000 citizens from South Korea in the event of a crisis that closes airports, with...

Contaminated and running out: Pakistan’s water crisis

ISLAMABAD: Barely 15 days old, Kinza whimpers at an Islamabad hospital where she is suffering from diarrhoea and a blood infection, a tiny victim among...

Erdoğan, Putin discuss UN vote on Jerusalem, Syria crisis on phone

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday agreed in a telephonic conversation that Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to be...

Lebanon’s Hariri retracts resignation, finishing month-long crisis

BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri rescinded his resignation on Tuesday, drawing a line under a month-long crisis triggered when he announced from Riyadh that...

How one Russian oligarch beat the crisis and made a fortune

  As Russia was descending into financial crisis, some of its most influential oil and stocks traders gathered at the exclusive River Club in central...

Climate change fans global security crisis, says Kerry

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Saturday that climate change was a threat to global security and has inflamed volatile situations from Europe’s...

Drowned toddler sparks fresh horror over Europe migrant crisis

Tens of thousands in Britain sign petitions urging the govt to accept more asylum seekers Heart-rending pictures of a toddler's lifeless body washed ashore on...

Oil prices rise to cover earlier losses

World oil prices rose Monday, reversing earlier losses, with focus on the United States where refineries were on strike. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for...

Iraq humanitarian crisis at highest level of emergency

The United Nations has announced its highest level of emergency for the humanitarian crisis in Iraq in the wake of the onslaught by militants...