Qatar economy coping with embargo: IMF
Qatar?s economy has successfully absorbed the shocks from the 2014-16 drop in hydrocarbon prices and the 2017 diplomatic rift,? the IMF said in a statement. ?Real GDP growth is estimated at 2.2 percent, up from 1.6 percent in 2017.? The IMF statement, which comes just two days before the second anniversary of the Saudi-led embargo, follows a routine economic assessment ...
IMF urges France to step up reforms to rein in debt
?While there is no immediate risk, as the currently low interest rates suggest that higher debt can be sustained at this juncture, the elevated debt level provides little comfort from a medium and long-term perspective.? The IMF noted that public debt has risen from around 20 percent of gross domestic product in the 1980s to close to 100 percent.
African Union Condemns Sudan's Military For Using Violence Against Sit-in Protesters
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) The African Union (AU) condemned on Monday the Sudanese for using excessive force against civilians at a sit-in that caused many deaths, Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki said. Local reported earlier in the day that the forces of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) had ...
UPDATE - At Least 52 People Shot In Weekend Gun Violence In Chicago - Police
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) At least 52 people were shot during a surge of gun violence in the US city of over the weekend, Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters on Monday. "Beginning Friday night, we saw an uptick in shootings and determined that that evening there were multiple gang-related attacks," Johnson said, ...
Russia’s Aeroflot scales back Superjet flights after fatal crash
Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking website. Flightradar24 data shows Aeroflot has also at times substituted Airbus or Boeing planes for the Superjet, the first new passenger jet developed ...
Qatar's Foreign Ministry Urges Sudan's TMC To Engage In Open Dialogue With Opposition
DOHA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) 's Foreign Ministry called on Monday for the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) to stop using force against protesters and to engage in an open dialogue with segments of Sudanese society.? Local reported on Monday that the pro-TMC forces had started a crackdown on the sit-in in , ...
Indian pilots spot 5 bodies in search for missing climbers
Government officials are consulting the Indian army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police on how to retrieve the bodies from a summit on Nanda Devi East, a mountain near Nanda Devi, India?s second-highest peak. ?There is always a fear that people going for the rescue may get stuck there.? The team, led by British climber Martin Moran, began its ascent May 13 ...
Jailed Australian cardinal to appeal against child sex abuse convictions
Jailed former Vatican treasurer George Pell will appeal on Wednesday against his convictions for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s and if an Australian court rules in his favour could be released or face a retrial. Pell, 77, the highest ranking Catholic cleric worldwide to be convicted of child sex offences, was jailed for six years in ...
Sanders kicks fight against Trump into high gear as Democrats swarm San Francisco
Sanders called Trump ?a racist, a sexist, a homophobe and a religious bigot? in a speech capping off a state Democratic convention that drew fourteen of the 24 candidates to make their case before 5,000 delegates, guests and press in the most populous ? and most heavily Democratic ? US state. ?Together we are going to defeat a president ...
Turkey Deeply Concerned Over Death Of Sudanese Protesters - Foreign Ministry
ANKARA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) is deeply concerned about the use of force by the security services in , which led to multiple casualties, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. Local reported earlier in the day that the forces of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) had started a crackdown ...
Militants Attacked Settlements In 2 Syrian Provinces In Past 24 Hours - Russian Military
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2019) Militant groups have violated the ceasefire in the provinces of Latakia and over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation said in a statement on Monday. "Over the past day, terrorists attacked Tall al-Tut, Djanadjik, Djubb, al-Zarur, Bait Smaira, Rois Usleman, Aqch Baer, ...
Eidul Fitr to be celebrated in KP on Tuesday, provincial govt announces
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has declared Tuesday (tomorrow) as the first day of Eidul Fitr, provincial Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai announced. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have declared Tuesday as the first day of Eidul Fitr as well, .
India heatwave takes temperatures near record highs
The thermometer hit 50.3 (122.54 Fahrenheit) in Churu in Rajasthan state, sending residents scrambling for shade to escape the searing sun. On Saturday it reached 50.6 Celsius (123 Fahrenheit), close to the country's record of 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit) recorded in the Rajasthan city of Phalodi in May 2016. A farmer died in Sikar district of Rajasthan on ...
Sri Lanka Muslim ministers resign en masse over Easter bombings
The resignation of nine government legislators, several of them cabinet ministers, came after a Buddhist monk lawmaker supporting President Maithripala Sirisena demanded the sacking of three top Muslim politicians. Muslim leaders said their community ? which consists of 10 percent of Sri Lanka?s 21 million population ? had become victims of violence, hate speech and harassment since Islamic extremists ...
Kushner: Palestinians deserve self-determination but uncertain they can govern themselves
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the Palestinians deserve ?self-determination,? but stopped short of backing Palestinian statehood and expressed uncertainty over their ability to govern themselves. Kushner, President Donald Trump?s son-in-law and an architect of the White House?s yet-to-be-released Middle East peace plan, told the ?Axios on HBO? television program it ...
Iran’s president rules out talks until US acts ‘normal’
Iran?s president on Monday ruled out negotiations with Washington until it acts ?normal,? after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US is ready to talk to Tehran without preconditions. But Washington?s top diplomat appeared to soften the US stance on Sunday, saying ?we are prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions.? Washington is ?certainly prepared to have ...
Deal or no deal, we leave EU on Oct 31, says UK PM candidate Johnson
Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain?s next prime minister, promised on Monday to lead the country out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without an exit deal, launching his leadership bid in a campaign video. Johnson, a former foreign minister who resigned in protest at May?s handling of Brexit, is the bookmakers? favourite to win a ...
آسام سے پرواز بھرنے والا بھارتی فضائیہ کا جنگی طیارہ لاپتہ
بین الاقوامی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق بھارتی ریاست آسام کے شہر جرہٹ سے پرواز بھرنے والا بھارتی فضائیہ کے جنگی طیارے AN-32 کا 35 منٹ کی پرواز کے بعد اچانک کنٹرول روم سے رابطہ منقطع ہو گیا تھا۔ طیارے میں عملے سمیت 12 افراد سوار ہیں۔ بھارتی جنگی کی طیارے کی منزل اروناچل پردیش میں ہمالیہ سلسلے کا مشرقی علاقہ ...
Iran calls US sanctions ‘economic war’, says no talks until they are lifted
GENEVA: Iran called US sanctions ?economic war? on Monday, and said there could be no talks with the United States until sanctions are lifted, a day after Washington suggested it could hold talks without pre-conditions if Iran changed its behaviour. They?re sanctioned,? Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Monday, with a video clip of a woman saying the ...
Trump says Russia pulled its people from Venezuela
The United States backs opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and has stepped up economic sanctions to help drive President Nicolas Maduro from power. Most other Western countries also support Guaido, who invoked the constitution in January to declare himself interim president, arguing that Maduro?s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. ...
