Trump to have packed schedule of bilateral meetings at G20
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will have a packed schedule of bilateral meetings in Buenos Aires this week on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of world leaders, the White House said on Tuesday. Trump’s talks on the sidelines are the main focus for the White House during the multilateral conference. It is unclear whether […]
Mexico government officials say there’s no deal to host U.S. asylum-seekers
US President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the US-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in US courts, but Mexico’s incoming government denied they had struck any deal. Mexico’s incoming interior minister said there was “no agreement of any type between the future government of Mexico […]
Agencies manage to trace pathway used by Chinese consulate attackers
KARACHI: Investigation agencies made a major breakthrough on Sunday as they traced the path used by terrorists for Friday’s attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi. “The attackers reached Karachi via Hub on the morning of the attack,” sources said. “From Hub, the attackers took the Sher Shah Road for Mai Kolachi and reached the […]
Inside Deepika Padukone, the Mumbai party of Ranveer Singh. A night to remember
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone set the floor on fire at a wedding party hosted for them by the groom’s sister Ritika Bhavnani at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai on Saturday. Although the celebrity couple has not shared pictures from the party on their Instagram accounts as yet, glimpses of the fun-filled night have been […]
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes western Iran
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday that no fatalities had been reported so far after an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near its western border with Iraq, Iranian state TV reported. The tremor was also felt in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and in Kuwait. “No reports of any fatalities (have been reported) yet and […]
Opposition slams PTI govt’s 100-day performance
ISLAMABAD: Opposition leaders heavily criticised on Sunday the 100-day plan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which it had promised to implement after coming into power. Pakistan People’s Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan said that the 100-day plan has been a reason for embarrassment to the government. Ahsan said that the PTI should not have made tall claims […]
French police fire tear gas, use water cannon on ‘yellow vest’ protesters
PARIS: Police fired tear gas and water cannon Saturday in central Paris against “yellow vest” protesters demanding French President Emmanuel Macron roll back tax hikes on motor fuel. Some 3,000 police were deployed in the capital as demonstrators who have blocked French roads over the past week wearing their now signature high-visibility jackets caused another […]
US missionary’s body could be lost in battle to preserve isolated tribe
The body of American missionary-adventurer John Allen Chau may never be recovered from the lost island where he fell in a volley of arrows fired by a reclusive tribe whose existence is threatened by the modern world, say experts. The menace to the Sentinelese from Chau’s one-man invasion is such that tribal rights specialists say […]
PIA plane collides with another aircraft while taxiing at Karachi airport
KARACHI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane hit another aircraft at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on Saturday while it was taxiing at the hangar, sources said. Sources at the airport told Geo News that the fuel tank of PIA’s ATR aircraft was damaged as it crashed with the Shaheen International Airlines plane. Passengers […]
India’ Sushma Swaraj excuses from attending Kartarpur border corridor ceremony
NEW DELHI: Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Saturday excused from attending groundbreaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor on Pakistan side of the border between the two countries. “I thank HE Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi Foreign Minister of Pakistan for inviting me to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor on the […]
