MANILA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that China should not hold hostage talks on important global matters such as the climate crisis, after Beijing cut off contacts with Washington in retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this week. Blinken spoke in an online news conference with his […]
BEIJING: China’s largest-ever exercises around Taiwan have offered key clues into its plans for a gruelling blockade in the event of a war to take the self-ruled island, and revealed an increasingly emboldened Chinese military, experts told AFP. The visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — second in line to the presidency […]
KABUL: A bomb blast hit Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday and many people were feared injured, witnesses said. The blast hit a busy shopping street in the western part of the city where members of the Shi’ite Muslim community regularly meet. Video footage posted online showed ambulances rushing to the scene which is also near […]
United Nations: UN experts said in a new report that Malian armed forces allegedly carried out an operation with white-skinned soldiers near the border with Mauritania in March, shooting and burning at least 33 civilians in one of several operations where the country’s ruling military appeared to work closely with likely Russian mercenaries. In the […]
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party has issued a one-month ultimatum to the coalition government led by Shehbaz Sharif to announce the dates for fresh general elections, saying giving the current dispensation more time will destroy the country’s economy. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice-President and former federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on […]
Beijing: India and Pakistan should resolve their differences over the Kashmir issue peacefully through dialogue and consultation, China said on Friday on the third anniversary of the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. In August 2019, the Indian government bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into Union territories and abrogated the provisions of Article […]
BEIJING: China on Friday said it is cancelling or suspending dialogue with the United States on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The measures, which come amid cratering relations between Beijing and Washington, […]
PHNOM PENH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday condemned China’s military drills encircling Taiwan as “a significant escalation”. Blinken said there was “no justification” for the exercises launched by Beijing in response to a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China fired ballistic missiles and deployed fighter jets and warships […]
ISLAMABAD: Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said. Government agencies and the army have set up aid and relief camps in flood-hit regions and were […]
Washington/Beijing: The US has postponed a long-planned intercontinental ballistic missile over concerns about China’s angry response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, according to a senior official. The decision to postpone the test flight of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile this week comes as China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) launched military […]