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US down to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, as ordered by Trump

WASHINGTON: The US military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that...

13 WHO scientists arrive in Wuhan to probe Covid-19 origins; 2 barred after testing positive

BEIJING: Thirteen international experts of the WHO arrived in Wuhan on Thursday for the long-awaited probe into the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic,...

Ajit Doval meets Afghan leadership; discusses issues of mutual interest, counter-terrorism co-op

KABUL: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who arrived here on a two-day unannounced visit, on Wednesday met the top Afghan leadership and discussed issues...

Day after plane with 62 on board crashed, Indonesian divers find wreckage in Java Sea

JAKARTA: Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the...

Won’t be silenced, might build own platform in near future: Trump after indefinite Twitter ban

WASHINGTON: Outgoing US President Donald Trump has slammed Twitter for permanently suspending him, vowing that he and his support base would not be silenced. The...

Saudi Arabia’s king Salman gets coronavirus jab

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday received a Covid-19 vaccine jab, more than three weeks after the kingdom kicked off a threephase inoculation...

US House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn’t resign ‘immediately’, says Speaker Pelosi

WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House would move ahead with the process to impeach President Donald Trump for...

Iran’s top leader bans corona vaccines from US, Britain

TEHRAN: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Friday banned Iran from importing of American Pfizer-BioNTech and Britain’s Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines, a reflection of mistrust toward...

Washington chaos leaves image of ‘exceptional’ America in tatters

SYDNEY: The storming of the US Congress left America’s image as a beacon of democracy severely tarnished Thursday, with allies unable to hide their...

Thousands converge in Washington for Trump rally

WASHINGTON: Thousands of supporters of Donald Trump have converged here to attend a massive rally to be addressed by the US president on Wednesday...

Chinese Communist Party clamps new rules for its members; bans public dissent

BEIJING: As China’s ruling Communist Party gears up to celebrate its centenary year, it has revised rules for its 92 million members, stipulating that...

Will fight like hell to hold on to presidency: Trump refuses to concede defeat

DALTON: With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to...

Pakistan’s SC orders reconstruction of vandalised Hindu temple

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to start reconstruction of a century-old Hindu temple that was vandalised...

Extraordinary warning to Donald Trump by 10 former Pentagon chiefs

WASHINGTON: In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence are cautioning against any move to involve the...

China’s new defence law expands power of its military headed by Xi

BEIJING: China has revised its National Defence Law, expanding the power of its armed forces headed by President Xi Jinping to mobilize military and...

China expects Joe Biden to end Donald Trump’s ‘cold war’ policy, restore ties

BEIJING: As Joe Biden is set to assume power this month, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday hoped that the US President-elect would...

China’s Sinopharm says vaccine ‘79% effective’ against Covid-19

BEIJING: Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the Chinese pharma giant said Wednesday, lower than rival...

2020: How world rocked by COVID-19, US elections and Black Lives Matter

PARIS: The COVID-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous...

Daniel Pearl murder case: Pakistan’s Sindh government refuses to release four accused

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Sindh province government has decided not to release British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides, accused of kidnapping...

High-level Chinese delegation in Nepal to ‘take stock’ of political situation

KATHMANDU: A high-level Chinese delegation led by a vice minister of the Chinese Communist Party arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to "take stock" of...

US expresses ‘deep concern’ over Pakistan court’s order to release accused in Daniel Pearl case

WASHINGTON: The US on Friday expressed "deep concern" over a Pakistani court's order to release British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his...

China says no link between stranded Indian ship crew and strained ties with New Delhi, Canberra

BEIJING: China said on Friday that there was no “link” between the situation of Indian crew on two stranded ships at Chinese ports and...

Afghanistan police say bomb tears through car in Kabul, kills five

KABUL: A roadside bomb tore through a vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul Tuesday, killing at least five people, four of them doctors,...

Pak govt cancels licences of 50 pilots

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has cancelled the licences of 50 pilots for flying with fake credentials and authorities will probe how they obtained the...

US accuses China of ‘obstructing’ WHO probe, ‘peddling’ questionable COVID-19 vaccines

WASHINGTON: Urging the international community to demand transparency from China about the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the US has accused Beijing of “obstructing”...

US general urges Taliban to end violence in rare meeting

WASHINGTON: The top US military officer pressed the Taliban to reduce violence in a rare meeting on Thursday as outgoing President Donald Trump seeks...

Iran builds at underground nuclear facility amid US tensions

TEHRAN: Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the US over its atomic program,...

US Joint Chiefs chairman meets with Taliban on peace talks

KABUL: The top US general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan,...

China’s spacecraft successfully brings home moon samples

BEIJING: China’s Chang’e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in...

WHO vaccine scheme may leave poor countries with no Covid-19 shots until 2024

BRUSSELS: The global scheme to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a “very high” risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions...

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