International

04-10-2020 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the international community to mount pressure on the Israeli regime “to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy its nuclear arsenal”. “The international community must compel Israel—which has aggression in its very DNA—to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy …

04-10-2020 STEPANAKERT: Fierce clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijan forces continued on Saturday with the main city of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region coming under heavy shelling. The leader of the breakaway province said he was heading to the front and that the “final battle” for the region had begun, seven days …

03-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least 13 people have been killed and more than 30 others wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a government building in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, officials said, adding that the death toll could rise. “The car …

03-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: A major terrorism activity was averted in North Waziristan on Friday after security forces successfully conducted an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) on a militants’ hideout, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. The military’s media wing said that two …

03-10-2020 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday evening amid his newfound COVID-19 diagnosis. Video showed the president leaving the White House and waving at reporters on his way to board Marine One. Trump later released a video to the public, saying …

03-10-2020 MOSCOW: A Russian News Editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Authorities confirmed her body had been found …

02-10-2020 MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON: American President Donald Trump has condemned all white supremacist groups following controversy over remarks he made during the first presidential debate. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday he explicitly condemned the Proud Boys group which in the debate he had urged to “stand back and …

02-10-2020 CANBERRA/ WELLINGTON: New Zealanders are to be granted access to Australia in the first opening of international borders by either nation since Covid restrictions were imposed. People will be able to fly from New Zealand to New South Wales and the Northern Territory – and avoid mandatory quarantine – …

02-10-2020 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said he and the US first lady are in quarantine after one of his closest aides tested positive for coronavirus. He tweeted that both he and Melania Trump were now awaiting their own test results after Hope Hicks was infected. The 31-year-old adviser …

02-10-2020 BRUSSELS/ ANKARA/ ATHENS: The EU says it could impose sanctions on Turkey over “provocations and pressures” in a row with Greece over energy resources and maritime borders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Ankara to “abstain from unilateral actions” in the eastern Mediterranean. She spoke early …