BEIRUT/LONDON: US President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that firms doing business with Tehran would be barred from the United States as new US sanctions against Iran took effect in spite of…
SEOUL: North Korea’s state media confirmed on Friday that Ri Yong Gil has become the new chief of the military’s general staff, the latest in leader Kim Jong Un’s leadership change. As…
BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers are calling for new presidential elections in Venezuela and are preparing more targeted sanctions against those close to President Nicolas Maduro. The EU has said that elections…
BRUSSELS: Europe’s new data and privacy rules take effect Friday, clarifying individual rights to the personal data collected by companies around the world for targeted advertising and other purposes. Years in the…
ROME: A new government is expected to take office in Italy next week after one of the longest periods of post-election flux in its history, but the fraught gestation might prove child’s…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s recently passed Elections Act 2017 stresses for taking special measures to increase the participation of women, religious minorities, transgenders and disabled persons in the election process. According to US Human…
ISLAMABAD: The federal government appointed Dr Muhammad Suleman Khan, a grade-22 officer of Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), as the director general (DG) of Intelligence Bureau (IB), said a notification issued on…
ISLAMABAD: According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup & Gilani, Pakistan, 43 per cent of Pakistanis believe that creating new provinces would be good for the country. The…
A new documentary about the scale of Nazi medical experiments has reopened old wounds in France as one of the country’s leading universities investigates whether its stores still contain the remains of…
BRUSSELS: A century after the “Spanish flu” killed 50 million people, humanity now risks a new wave of deadly diseases, and in today’s globalised world another such pandemic may be unavoidable, experts warned…
DILI: East Timor President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres said on Friday he was dissolving parliament and would call new elections in a bid to end a prolonged political impasse in the tiny…
WASHINGTON DC: The Pentagon is set to unveil President Donald Trump’s nuclear policy next week, and critics are already warning it could trigger another arms race and raise the risk of miscalculations that…
AFRIN: The Turkish army said it launched new strikes on Saturday against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria, amid mounting expectations of a cross-border ground operation. The army…
LONDON: Britain could take part in a new model of European cooperation after Brexit but is unlikely to rejoin the EU in its current form, a senior minister has said. Cabinet Office…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said he signed into law a bill renewing the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program, sealing a defeat for digital privacy advocates. “Just signed…
VIENNA: The Ukrainian armed forces have not fulfilled their obligations and violated the truce in Donbass, Russia’s OSCE Ambassador Alexander Lukashevich told a session of the OSCE Permanent Council. “Kiev security forces…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May will announce a new treaty on how to handle migrants hoping to head to Britain, the French presidency said Wednesday. The…
