International

20-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISTANBUL/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is travelling to New York City, knowing he has been dealt a promising hand for improving ties with the US thanks to developments in Afghanistan. At the start of the year, then …

20-09-2021 BRUSSELS: As a decorated kickboxer and kung fu athlete, Chouaib Lakoighet is not accustomed to his legs just giving out on him but one day in July, his atrophied muscles could no longer hold him upright. After more than a month on hunger strike, the 27-year-old Algerian, who has …

20-09-2021 DUBAI/ DOHA/ RIYADH: The UAE’s National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday met Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the Red Sea for a “brotherly meeting”. Director of Saudi Crown Prince’s Private …

19-09-2021 RAMALLAH/ JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have detained dozens of Palestinians in recent days in a campaign of mass arrests in response to an embarrassing high-security prison escape earlier this month. According to figures from the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department and the Palestinian prisoners’ organization Addameer, more than 100 Palestinians have …

19-09-2021 France has accused longtime allies Australia and the United States of lying over a security pact that saw the Australian government scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favor of US vessels. “There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves …

19-09-2021 TEHRAN: Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri warned on Sunday that the military strikes against terrorist groups stationed in northern Iraq that have been in progress over the past two weeks will remain in place and may even expand. Speaking to reporters …

18-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: General Frank McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, acknowledged that a US drone raid in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, late in August killed 10 civilians, including children. McKenzie said on Friday that it was “unlikely” that …

18-09-2021 WASHINGTON: Police say they have detected “some threats of violence” ahead of a planned right-wing rally in Washington DC on Saturday. Event organizers say it is aimed at supporting those arrested for taking part in the Capitol riots on 6 January. Security has been tightened in Washington ahead of …

18-09-2021 PARIS: France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations, in a backlash over a submarine deal. Australia on Wednesday cancelled a multibillion-dollar deal for conventional French submarines to enter a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with the United States and Britain in which it will obtain US …

17-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Interior Minister (IM) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday said that the Taliban should be given time to form a government in Afghanistan and run the country effectively. The minister expressed these views in a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner …