Tag: Fears

Trump’s London visit called off amid fears of mass protests

LONDON: Donald Trump has backed off the idea of visiting Britain next month to open the new US embassy in London amid fears of mass...

2018 Winter Games chief dismisses N. Korea attack fears as ‘exaggeration’

Pyeongchang (South Korea): With little more than 100 days to go before the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, chief organiser Lee Hee-Beom has...

Fears grow for Syrian Christians abducted by IS

There are fears that more members of an Assyrian Christian community in north-eastern Syria were abducted by Islamic State militants than at first thought. Sources...

Petrol shortage fears loom after price cut

Petroleum Ministry spokesman denies deficiency, says 90,000 tonnes of reserve is available with marketing companies Information minister boasts of lowest POL prices in the region While...

Australia raises terror alert to ‘high’ on Mideast fears

Australia on Friday raised its terror threat level to “high” for the first time in a decade on growing concern about Australian fighters returning...

Oil mixed in Asia as US fiscal fears offset jobs data

Oil prices were mixed in Asian trade Monday as weak energy demand and concerns over more fiscal battles in Washington tempered news of a...

Zombie fears lead to increase in gun sales

It’s not just President Obama’s re-election that’s lead to a spike in gun sales. The living dead are also providing a reason to stock...

Oil prices up in Asia on Middle East fears

Crude prices rose in Asia Monday after UN chief Ban Ki Moon warned that Israel’s new resettlement plans would deal an “almost fatal blow”...

Syria, Iran nuclear fears, Muslim protests cloud UN summit

War in Syria, mounting tensions over Iran’s nuclear drive and anti-Western protests across the Muslim world will cast a shadow over the annual UN...

Flood fears still loom for Jaccobabad

Floods are feared to submerge Jacobabad still due primarily to a 50 foot and 100 foot breaches in Noorwah canal at Tel and Sem...

Afghan nomad clashes raise fears of ethnic strife

Bloody raids by nomads armed with machine guns and rocket launchers on villages near Kabul are raising fears about a return to ethnic conflict...

Syria gunships hit rebels amid massacre fears

Syrian gunships pounded rebels and troops clashed with insurgents in Aleppo on Friday as world powers voiced fears of an all-out assault and called...

India bars 3 Iranian banks on security fears: report

India's home ministry has refused to allow three Iranian banks to open branches on Indian soil because of concerns about money-laundering and terror financing,...

Syria fears grow as UN monitors under fire

Envoy Kofi Annan told the Security Council the Syria crisis will "spiral out of control" if more pressure is not put on the regime,...

Amnesty fears Bahraini women and girls tortured

A group of 38 women and seven girls arrested last week during a protest against Bahrain’s parliamentary by-elections have reportedly been tortured or ill-treated,...

Wall Street extends slide as Fed stokes economic fears

Stocks skidded 3 percent on Thursday, extending losses for a fourth day as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve and weak data from...

Leak fears wane after deadly French nuclear plant blast

The French government sought to play down fears of a radioactive leak after the explosion Monday at a nuclear site in the south of...