Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but US officials say Ankara is imposing conditions which need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week. Turkish officials say Ankara made
Tensions between India and China once again escalated in Ladakh, with India accusing China of launching military aggression to change the current situation in the Pangong Tsuj Lake area in Ladakh. Indian media quoted the Indian Ministry of Defense as saying that the recent diplomatic
Washington: Members of the UN Security Council condemned violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the Central African Republic (CAR) during a meeting of the council on Monday, Estonian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gert Auvaart said in a readout. "The members of the
GENEVA: The United Nations said that the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the world of work was four times worse than the 2008 economic crisis. The UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO) said the pandemic had had a “devastating” and even “cataclysmic” effect, as it sought to tackle
Washington: A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that thousands of people living in the US for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have
Geneva: Even as the pandemic raged and economies around the world were devastated, nuclear-armed countries last year increased spending on atomic weapon arsenals by 1.4 billion dollars, campaigners said Tuesday. In a fresh report, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) detailed how the world
Vienna: The UN nuclear watchdog’s head said it was "becoming increasingly difficult" to extend a temporary inspections arrangement with Iran, as Tehran and world powers try to salvage a nuclear deal. In February, Tehran suspended some IAEA inspections, leading the agency to strike a temporary three-month
Paris: The foreign ministers of Turkey and France held talks in Paris, in a rare high-level meeting after months of tensions over international crises and French domestic legislation against radical Islamism. France s Jean-Yves Le Drian hosted Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu for talks ahead of NATO
Kolkata: Lightning strikes killed 27 people and four passengers on a flight were hospitalised after severe turbulence during monsoon storms in eastern India, officials said Tuesday. Lightning strikes during the June-September annual monsoon are fairly common in India. Officials said West Bengal was hit by thunderstorms late
Ontario: A man driving a pickup truck rammed into and killed four members of a Muslim family in the south of Canada's Ontario province, in what police said was a “premeditated” attack. A 20-year-old suspect wearing a vest “like body armour” fled the scene after the