PARIS: The warning comes after weeks of relative calm, with the marches attracting declining numbers as yellow-vest protesters waited for President Emmanuel Macron’s expected response to their various demands which include lower…
The Water Resources Ministry has warned of a “super flood’ in the country this year due to heavy rainfall in monsoon. The ministry officials told a hearing of the National Assembly’s Standing…
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday warned Central American nations to be cautious when building relations with China, which has been increasingly active in the region. Amid mounting tensions between…
WASHINGTON: The US government on Wednesday warned that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on technology service providers…
TEHRAN: A senior Iranian security official on Thursday threatened Israel with harsh “reactions” if the Jewish state “continues to attack” Iranian and government forces in Syria. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted…
ATHENS: The top US military officer warned on Tuesday that a major Syrian military assault on the rebel-held enclave of Idlib would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe and instead recommended more narrowly…
BENGHAZI: An international aid group says fighting between rival militias vying for power in Libya’s capital has put the lives of people trapped there in danger. Friday’s statement by Doctors Without Borders…
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 reached 106 with nearly 150,000 left homeless. Helicopters…
GENEVA: Yemen may be on the brink of a new cholera epidemic, with a heightened death rate due to widespread malnutrition, and the United Nations is hoping for a ceasefire in the…
BEIRUT: Iran’s Quds force chief Qassem Soleimani warned US President Donald Trump against war on Thursday, saying it would “destroy all that you possess”, the website of Iran’s Arabic language Al Alam…
GOLAN HEIGHTS/BEIRUT: Dozens of Syrians approached the Israeli frontier on the Golan Heights on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary from a Russian-backed Syrian army offensive, before turning…
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned on Saturday he would not allow militias to stockpile arms, two weeks after a weapons depot belonging to an armed group exploded in Baghdad. At…
BEIRUT: The United States warned it would take “firm and appropriate measures” to protect a cease-fire in southern Syria if President Bashar Assad’s forces move against rebels there. The area in southwestern…
SYDNEY: The Coalition has been forced to significantly amend its proposed foreign interference laws after warnings from media organisations, Labour and the Greens that the legislation would criminalise public interest journalism. The…
GENEVA: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that recent developments in the Middle East could create “an irreversible one-state reality” that would bury the two-state solution of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.…
BRUSSELS: The European Commission warned that the proposed changes would undermine the judiciary’s independence and Romania’s commitment to fight corruption and organised crime. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of…
VANCOUVER: Twenty nations agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Pyongyang it could trigger…
