Tag: First
Mattis becomes first US defence chief to visit China under Trump
BEIJING: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday became the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014, starting a three-day trip with a...
Colombia to become first Latin American NATO ‘global partner’
BOGOTA: Colombia will next week formally become NATO’s first Latin American “global partner,” President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday.
Santos, who won the 2016 Nobel...
2nd Twenty20: Pakistan defeat NZ by 48 runs
AUCKLAND: Pakistan has defeated New Zealand by 48 runs in the second Twenty20 against New Zealand at Auckland's Eden Park on Thursday.
The Kiwis never quite...
‘Daesh landlord’ charged with harbouring terrorists in first Paris attacks trial
PARIS: The first trial stemming from the November 2015 Paris terror attacks opens Wednesday when Jawad Bendaoud appears in court, charged with harbouring two...
First US senator to give birth in office
WASHINGTON: US Senator Tammy Duckworth is pregnant with her second child and is on track to become the first US senator to give birth...
New Zealand defeat Pakistan in first T20
WELLINGTON: New Zealand thrashed Pakistan by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 international in Wellington.
Having been whitewashed 5-0 in the one-day international series, any hopes...
Saudi women attend football game for the first time
JEDDAH: For years Areej al-Ghamdi could only cheer her favourite football team from home, but everything changed on Friday when Saudi Arabia allowed women...
US sets date for execution of Indian-American death-row prisoner
WASHINGTON: There is a slim chance of the first death-row Indian-American prisoner being executed on the scheduled date of February 23 because of a...
Ukraine’s first solar plant going to launch at Chernobyl
CHERNOBYL: At ground zero of Ukraine´s Chernobyl tragedy, workers in orange vests are busy erecting hundreds of dark-coloured panels as the country gets ready...
Emmanuel Macron pursues ambitious agenda on first official China visit
PARIS: In Mandarin, Emmanuel Macron’s name is rendered "Makelong", or "the horse vanquishes the dragon" -- an encouraging image for the French president as...
Peru’s pardoned Fujimori starts life as free man for first time
LIMA: Peru’s recently-pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori left a hospital as a free man for the first time in 12 years on Thursday,...
Nepal’s parliament elects first female president
Nepal's parliament Wednesday elected communist lawmaker Bidhya Bhandari as the country's first female president after the adoption of a landmark constitution last month.
The former...
Pope to make first Africa trip in November amid security concerns
Pope Francis will meet slum dwellers and refugees and call for dialogue between Christians and Muslims when he visits Kenya, Uganda and Central African...
First Russian strikes hit three Syria provinces
Russian warplanes carried out air strikes in three Syrian provinces alongside regime aircraft on Wednesday, a Syrian security source told AFP.
Syrian state television subsequently...
Afghan president nominates first female judge to SC
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday nominated a female judge to sit on the Afghanistan Supreme Court in an unprecedented move that has angered...
Lockheed F-35 gets first female pilot
Lieutenant Colonel Christine Mau, a US Air Force pilot who was part of the first all-female combat sortie over Afghanistan in 2011, this week...
First Haj flight leaves for Jeddah today
The first Haj flight SV-727 is scheduled to leave for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today, kicking off the month-long pre-Haj operation to airlift 28,072 intending...
