US now requires social media details from visa applicants
In a latest development regarding its visa policy, the United States will now require details of social media from all social media applicants, according to the US State Department. US regulations state that visa applicants will now have to provide social media names and email addresses and phone numbers in use since five years. Applicants might need to list ...
New breast cancer drug found to boost survival rates by 30pc
CHICAGO: A new form of drug drastically improves survival rates of younger women with the most common type of breast cancer, researchers said on Saturday, citing the results of an international clinical trial. An estimated 268,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the US in 2019, while the advanced form of the ...
OIC summit supports Palestinians, condemns attack on Saudi Arabia
MAKKAH: The 14th Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday threw its support behind Palestinians ahead of a US-led peace plan suspected to be skewed in favour of Israel, as regional allies rallied around Saudi Arabia over tensions with Iran. Gulf and Arab leaders at the OIC talks, the third and final Iran-focused summit in the ...
Mexican president says confident that US will negotiate on tariffs
?There is willingness on the part of US government officials to establish dialogue and reach agreements and compromises,? President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a news conference. Trump?s surprise announcement Thursday of new tariffs against a key US trading partner was widely criticized, including by US business groups, border-state politicians and some Republican lawmakers. Trump appeared to have no ...
Disgruntled city employee kills 12 in Virginia; suspect also killed
VIRGINIA BEACH: A disgruntled public utility employee opened fire on co-workers at city offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and wounding several others before he was fatally shot by police, authorities said. Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera said the mass shooting in the coastal resort city began as the gunman entered the public ...
Japan PM to meet Iran’s Khamenei to mediate with US: report
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iran?s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later this month with Tokyo hoping to mediate between Washington and Tehran, a report said Sunday.
Russia says end to fighting in Syria's Idlib is Turkey's responsibility
MOSCOW/ANKARA: The Kremlin said on Friday it was Turkey?s responsibility to stop rebels in Syria?s Idlib province from firing on civilian and Russian targets, signaling it would continue to back a Syrian government offensive there despite Ankara?s protests. ?We really do need a ceasefire in Idlib and what needs to be achieved is for the terrorists to stop firing ...
Hunt warns against 'very hardline' approach to Brexit talks
LONDON: Britain should not take a “very hardline approach” to any future Brexit talks as this would prompt a similar response from the European Union, foreign minister and Conservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt said on Friday. “We need to deliver Brexit and my job is to make sure we have a debate about how we do that,” Hunt told the BBC ...
New India government suffers double economy hit
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government suffered a double economic blow of slowing growth and rising unemployment as it took office Friday. But hours after India's first full-time woman finance minister took office, the government announced the third straight fall in quarterly growth to 5.8 percent in the first three months of the year. It means India ...
Julian Assange suffering 'psychological torture': UN expert
Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out "psychological torture", a UN rights expert said Friday, accusing the United States, Britain, Ecuador, and Sweden of "collective persecution" of the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, also warned that if London agrees to an extradition request from Washington, Assange ...
US now requires social media details from visa applicants
In the latest development regarding its visa policy, the United States will now require details of social media from all social media applicants, according to the US State Department. US regulations state that visa applicants will now have to provide social media names and email addresses and phone numbers in use for five years. Applicants might need to ...
North Korea executes envoy in a purge after failed US summit: media
SEOUL: North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday. Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry ...
Trump announces departure of White House economic adviser Hassett
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett will ?shortly? leave his post, but did not provide a reason for the latest high-level departure from the administration. In the White House post, he worked with Trump?s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner on a proposed immigration plan that the ...
Considered to be executed North Korean official reappears
Kim Yong Chol has been North Korea?s top nuclear negotiator and the counterpart of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo since Kim Jong Un entered nuclear talks with the U.S. early last year. Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have been at a standstill since February, when the second summit between Trump and Kim broke down over what the United ...
Donald Trump starts his UK visit
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Britain on Monday on a state visit laden with diplomatic peril, having already humiliated outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit and challenged her to be tougher in dealing with China?s Huawei. If you don?t get a fair deal, you walk away.? Trump repeated his backing for those candidates to succeed May who have ...
Chinese students’ delegation visits Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing
Beijing, Jun 1 (APP):A delegation of 30 young Chinese students, organized by the Chinese Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries visited the Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing.
Qatar says it has reservations about Arab statements on Iran
Saudi Arabia?s King Salman convened the emergency summits on May 30 to discuss drone strikes on oil installations in Saudi Arabia and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the United Arab Emirates coast.
Trump strips India of special trade status
NEW YORK, Jun 01 (APP):As part of its ongoing protectionist moves, the administration of US President Donald Trump has announced that it would no longer allow India to have special trade status.
Israeli police arrest seven during clash at Al-Aqsa mosque, 45 wounded
: Israeli police clashed with Palestinian worshippers at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday as an Israeli holiday coincided with the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. On the other hand, the Muslim Waqf organisation, which oversees the site, said police used rubber bullets and pepper spray, adding that seven people were arrested and ...
UN food agency accesses conflict-hit Yemen’s frontline district for first time
WFP Spokesperson Herve Verhoosel told journalists in Geneva that on Thursday the agency had succeeded in distributing food and aid to more than 5,000 people from ?896 households living next to the frontlines of Nihm district in Sana?a governorate.? He highlighted that it was ?the first time WFP and a cooperating partner, Islamic Relief, (have) reached people living inside the ...
