COLOMBO: India has extended a USD 100 million Line of Credit to Sri Lanka to help the island nation finance various projects in the solar energy sector and ensure that the country’s 70 per cent power requirements are fulfilled by renewable energy sources by 2030. An agreement signed between the Sri Lankan government and the […]
WASHINGTON: Documents released by a US congressional panel on Tuesday revealed new details of how then-President Donald Trump tried to mobilise the Justice Department last year to join his failed effort to overturn his election defeat based on his false claims of voting fraud. Bid rebuffed The US Justice Department did not join then President […]
Islamabad: A Pakistan court has adjourned till October 5 the hearing of a government’s plea to appoint a counsel for Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav on request of the country’s top law officer, according to a media report. Jadhav, the 50-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on […]
London: A new, experimental anti-viral treatment used for some worst-affected Covid-19 patients has been found to save lives, according to the results of a UK trial on Wednesday. In the ongoing Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ combination of drugs was found to benefit patients with severe symptoms of the virus who […]
Brussels : NATO leaders on Monday declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order, a message in sync with President Joe Biden’s efforts to get allies to speak out with a more unified voice against China’s trade, military and human rights practices. In a summit statement, the […]
Beijing : The Chinese mission to the European Union on Tuesday denounced a NATO statement that declared Beijing a “security challenge,” saying China is actually a force for peace but will defend itself if threatened. The Chinese news release said the NATO statement was a “slander on China’s peaceful development, a misjudgment of the international […]
BRUSSELS: Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday there is no new Cold War with China but the western allies will have to adapt to the challenge of Beijing’s rise. “We’re not entering a new Cold War and China is not our adversary, not our enemy,” Stoltenberg told reports after a Nato leaders’ summit. […]
ISLAMABAD: The Afghanistan peace process is the shared obligation of all stakeholders and one country alone cannot take responsibility for any negative outcome, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday, as he rejected the country’s closeness with the Taliban militants. US President Joe Biden in April announced that all American troops would be […]
TEHRAN: Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country has approved an emergency use of its first domestically developed coronavirus vaccine that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against Covid-19. The emergency authorisation was approved after the country faced with problems from importing enough vaccines. The TV […]
BRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan on Monday in their last summit before America winds up its longest “forever war” and the US military pulls out for good. The meeting is bound to renew questions about whether NATO’s most ambitious operation ever was worth it. […]