International

06-12-2020 TBILISI (GEORGIA): US President Donald Trump repeated unfounded allegations of voter fraud on Saturday as he campaigned for two Republican senators, marking his first public rally after the US election loss to Joe Biden. Trump reminded the chanting crowd that he came to southern Georgia to persuade them to …

05-12-2020 GENEVA: The World Health Organization has warned governments and citizens against dropping their guards over the coronavirus pandemic now that vaccination was close, stressing the healthcare systems could still buckle under pressure. “Progress on vaccines gives us all a lift and we can now start to see the light …

05-12-2020 BEIJING: China has become the world’s second country to have planted a flag on the moon after the United States. More than 50 years ago, the US first planted the Stars and Stripes on the moon. China sent its Chang’e-5 spacecraft to the moon from Beijing at 11.10pm Beijing …

05-12-2020 ANKARA: Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan slammed French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday and hoped that the French people will soon get rid of him as he described the French leader as a burden on his country. Ties between Turkey and France, both NATO members, have been particularly tense in …

05-12-2020 RIYADH/ DOHA: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has expressed optimism that the three-year boycott of Qatar by four Arab nations, including the kingdom, may be nearing an end. “We’ve made significant progress in the last few days,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said, speaking to Italy’s annual Mediterranean Dialogues on Friday. …

04-12-2020 NEW DELHI: India on Friday termed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent comments over protests by farmers near New Delhi as “unacceptable interference” and warned that such things could harm bilateral ties. It also summoned Canada’s ambassador to formally lodge a protest. Trudeau, speaking to the Indian community in …

04-12-2020 DOHA/ RIYADH: Qatar’s foreign minister has said there has been movement on resolving the diplomatic dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbors against each other but he could not predict whether a breakthrough was imminent or would fully resolve the matter. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed …

04-12-2020 NEW YORK/ LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 1.5 million lives with one death being reported every nine seconds on a weekly average. Half a million COVID-19 deaths were reported in just the last two months, indicating that the severity of the pandemic is far from over as …

04-12-2020 BEIJING: Lawmakers in the United States are fabricating news of forced labour in the northwestern Xinjiang region, China said on Thursday. The development comes after Washington banned imports of cotton produced by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) alleged to use the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims …

04-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CAIRO/ SANA’A/ UNITED NATIONS: The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will face some form of food crisis next year, according to United Nations agencies. More than half …