Trump touts US military power in Pacific after Japan emperor visit
The address to the cheering military marked Memorial Day, the US holiday honouring the war dead, but it was also clearly aimed at growing rival China and North Korea, where Trump has invested heavy diplomatic efforts to try and get the regime to give up nuclear weapons ? so far with only modest results. Trump said US naval forces ...
Russian space sector plagued by astronomical corruption
?Billions (of rubles) are being stolen there, billions,? Alexander Bastrykin, the powerful head of Russia?s Investigative Committee ? Russia?s equivalent of the FBI ? said in mid-May. Corruption has particularly affected Russia?s two most important space projects of the decade: GLONASS and the construction of the country?s showpiece cosmodrome Vostochny, built to relieve Moscow?s dependence on Baikonur in ex-Soviet ...
Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tonnes of plastic waste
?We urge developed countries to stop shipping garbage to our country,? said Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia?s minister of energy, technology, science, environment and climate change, adding it was ?unfair and uncivilised?. Lee Chee Kwang, an activist with Environment Protection Agency Kuala Langat, said Malaysia has ?failed miserably? to manage the rubbish coming into the country. ?The government must ban ...
King Salman's wisdom will help render Islamic Summit successful, says Imam-e-Kaaba
We are currently working so hard to move to the creative work away from the traditional and stereotypical ones to keep abreast on the Kingdom?s Vision 2030.? He continued further: ?In the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, we carry out works in an innovative and creative method.? The Imam-e-Kaaba pointed out that the initiatives, ...
open house will be held at High Commissioners residence on Eid day
ISLAMABAD, May 28 (APP):To celebrate the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr with the Pakistani community in the United Kingdom (UK), Mohammad Nafees Zakaria, Pakistan High Commissioner to UK, will be holding an Open House at their official Residence ?Pakistan House? London on Eid Day (as per Regents Park Mosque announcement) from 3:00 p.m to 6:00 pm.
‘Education is under fire in Afghanistan’: UNICEF
UNITED NATIONS, May 28 (APP):Militant attacks on schools in Afghanistan increased almost threefold last year, making it increasingly difficult to ensure education for children in many parts of the country, according to the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF). ?The senseless attacks on schools; the killing, injury and abduction of teachers; and the threats against education are destroying the hopes ...
Chinese VP wraps up visit on ‘highly successful’ note
China?s Vice President Wang Qishan on Tuesday concluded his three-day ?highly successful? visit to Pakistan, setting a tone for future trajectory of mutual engagement between the two countries. ?The vice president?s highly successful visit has imparted a strong impetus to further deepening the time-tested friendship between Pakistan and China,? the Foreign Office said in a statement, as the visiting ...
Chinese position on Palestine clear, consistent: Spokesperson
BEIJING, May 28 (APP):China Tuesday said its position on the question of Palestine was clear and consistent and asked the international community to keep up efforts to promote peace and ensure that voice and proposition of parties concerned, especially Palestine, were heeded.
Afghan NSA, interior minister hold talks with senior Pakistani officials
Afghanistan?s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib on Tuesday led a high-level Afghan delegation in talks with senior Pakistani officials on security cooperation and peace process in Afghanistan. The visit of senior Afghan officials has ended the break in high-level contacts between the two countries since November when Pakistani and Afghan officials met in Islamabad on repatriation of Afghan refugees ...
PIA to restart Beijing-Tokyo flights from Friday
BEIJING, May 28 (APP):Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will resume its Beijing-Tokyo flights to facilitate Pakistanis living in Japan as well as Chinese and Japanese passengers on this route. It will also, provide convenience to the Chinese and Japanese travelers on Beijing-Tokyo sector.The decision to restart flight operation to Japan has pleased the Pakistani community in Tokyo as a large ...
Better late than never — Indian Army finally admits HQ bombed by PAF
The Indian armed forces have admitted the presence of senior army commanders at a brigade-level headquarters ? which was targeted by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter aircraft on February 27, reported the Indian News Agency. PAF carried out strikes a day after the Indian Air Force?s (IAF) botched airstrike in the Balakot area of K-P. As a show of ...
China-Pakistan cooperation in next phase to focus on benefiting people through local development projects: Expert
BEIJING, May 28 (APP):China-Pakistan cooperation in the next phase will focus more on benefiting people through local projects that improve livelihood along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chinese expert said as Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan was visiting Pakistan and the two countries boosted their cooperation on multiple projects. Lin Minwang, a professor at Fudan University?s Center for South ...
UN agency: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018
Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018, compared to the year before, in part because militants targeted schools that were used as polling stations in the country?s October parliamentary elections, the United Nations children?s agency said Tuesday. UNICEF also said that Afghanistan?s conflict and deteriorating security situation left more than 1,000 schools closed last year and that half ...
Malaysia to send back plastic waste to foreign nations
Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tons (3,300 tons) of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the US, UK, Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich nations, Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said Tuesday. Malaysia and many developing countries have become new targets after China banned the import of plastic ...
Israel inches closer to snap election with overnight vote
Israel edged closer to snap polls as a bill to dissolve parliament passed its first reading in the early hours of Tuesday morning, despite a general election last month. Pitched into chaos by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s failure to form a governing coalition after the April polls, the Knesset voted 66 to 44 in favor of a new election, ...
In Syria’s Maalula, fear for survival of language of Christ
Hunched over a thick book, George Zaarour uses a magnifying glass to decipher Aramaic script ? the biblical language of Jesus that is starting to disappear from everyday use in his village. The 62-year-old is one of the last in Syria to specialise in the ancient language, which has survived for 2,000 years in the village of Maalula ? ...
Albania’s riotous politics rattle EU dreams
Molotov cocktails in the streets and a mass resignation in parliament ? Albania?s volatile political scene is exploding just as its European future is on the table, threatening Tirana?s dreams of joining the bloc. I call on you to resist.? The drama has alarmed Western diplomats, who have issued regular warnings to opposition leaders to curb the violence if they ...
Sudan protesters strike as deadlock with military persists
Hundreds of passengers at Khartoum airport and the Sudanese capital?s main bus terminal were stranded Tuesday as protesters began a two-day national strike to pile pressure on the military to hand power to a civilian administration. Leaders of an umbrella protest movement remain at loggerheads with army generals, who seized power after ousting president Omar al-Bashir last month, over ...
Civilian toll mounts as Syria regime pounds jihadist bastion
Another wave of regime air strikes on Tuesday struck a jihadist bastion in northwest Syria where more than 40 civilians have been killed in several days of heavy bombardment, a war monitor said. Four children were among 10 people killed on Tuesday in government fire on several towns in Idlib province and neighbouring Aleppo countryside, the Syrian Observatory for ...
Video: Saudi royal moves head after 14 years in coma
In a video clip, posted by Princess Rima bint Talal daughter of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Prince Waleed bin Khaled can be seen moving his head for the first time in 14 years as he head slipped into a coma following a car accident. In another tweet sahred by the same lady , Prince Alwaleed is seen visiting his ...
