Tag: Tensions

Saudi Arabia stepped in on Monday to defuse the rising tension between Pakistan and the United States and in this connection, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)...

As the military top brass held a brainstorming session on Sunday to find ways to deal with the situation after US accusations of Pakistan’s...

In the backdrop of Pakistan’s strained relations with the United States, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha is proceeding to China...

Rising tensions surrounding the South China Sea threaten regional peace, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday as she warned against force to...

The United States and China on Friday sought to calm tensions over the South China Sea, saying new conduct guidelines between Beijing and Southeast...

China on Thursday sought to reassure Southeast Asian countries that it was a friendly neighbour, as all sides worked to ease tensions that spiked...

The war of words between China and the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea escalated on Tuesday, ahead of a key...

An escalating border war in the badlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan is fanning tensions at a key juncture as Afghans and Americans reach out...

Vietnam protested to China on Thursday after what it described as a “premeditated” attack on an exploration ship in its waters, raising tensions between...

An informal ceasefire between President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s security forces and a tribal group brought a pause in fighting on Saturday after nearly a...

Thousands of civilians who fled the deadliest fighting in decades on the Thai-Cambodian border have returned home as tensions ease on the disputed frontier,...

TEHRAN - Tensions between Iran and the Gulf Arab countries are the result of a "Western and Zionist conspiracy", the foreign ministry in Tehran said on Sunday.
"Sowing discord between Islamic countries, especially between Iran and the countries of the region, is a Western and Zionist conspiracy," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparst was quoted as saying on the website of state television.
"We advise regional governments to heed the demands of their people in

LONDON - World oil prices rose sharply Thursday as trader sentiment was jarred by simmering geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Libya and Syria.
In London midday trade, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in May added $1.07 to $116.20 a barrel.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for May, won 99 cents to $105.26.
"Crude oil prices rebounded strongly amid ongoing political unrest across Middle East that continue to raise

MOHALI - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi cracked jokes and tagged Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men as favourites as he attempted to deflect the pressure off his team ahead of their World Cup semi-final against arch rivals India.
A day before Wednesday's high-profile match, Pakistan decided to skip practice while the skipper amused the media with his one-liners.
Asked why the team did not train, Afridi replied: "Why, you didn't like it?"
After drawing hoots of laughter, he

AMMAN - Bloody clashes in Jordan have exacerbated the confidence crisis between the government and Islamists, accused of taking orders from northern neighbour Syria, which is itself facing popular protests. The Islamist opposition and the government locked horns after a protester died and 160 people were injured on Friday when police broke up a pro-reform protest camp in Amman following a stone attack by loyalists against young demonstrators.The rift between the government and

SANAA - Heavy gunfire was heard south of the Yemen capital on Monday and soldiers deployed in force in Sanaa itself, with a new wave of rallies reported across the country demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh quit.
The impoverished Arabian Peninsula state has been shaken by weeks of protests that have undermined Saleh's 32-year grip on power, with the president appearing increasingly willing to deal more violently with his many opponents. Seven demonstrators have died in

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday expressed "great concern" over the crises in several African and Asian countries, mentioning Pakistan and Libya in particular.
"I follow with great concern the tensions in several countries in Africa and Asia in these days," the pope said in Italian after the weekly Angelus prayer in St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church urged that the "moving sacrifice" of Pakistan's murdered Catholic minorities'