Nationalists surge in EU Parliament vote, but pro-EU parties remain dominant
Pro-European parties retained a firm grip on the EU parliament, provisional results from the bloc?s elections showed on Monday, though eurosceptic opponents saw strong gains. While policy-making is likely to be difficult given the breakdown of a ?grand coalition? of the centre right and centre left, the result shields the EU from anti-establishment forces seeking to break up the ...
Taliban to hold talks with Russian officials, Afghan politicians in Moscow
Afghan Taliban say their political affairs chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will hold talks with senior Afghan politicians and Russian officials in Moscow over the next two days to discuss peace in Afghanistan. The Moscow?s intra-Afghan conference has assumed importance following the postponement of the intra-Afghan dialogue scheduled to be held in Qatar on April 20-21 and the Taliban ...
US ‘not looking for regime change’ in Iran: Trump
Hours earlier, Trump had insisted: ?I do believe that Iran would like to talk, and if they?d like to talk, we?d like to talk also.? Trump sounded a similarly conciliatory tone on North Korea, a key topic of his discussions in Japan, which views Pyongyang as a major threat. He is a very smart man, he gets it well,? said ...
Trump becomes first foreign leader to meet Japan’s new emperor
The palace visit in the morning, followed by a royal banquet in the evening, was the main event in a feel-good trip that started Saturday and has seen Abe and Trump playing golf, eating out, watching sumo and generally enjoying an all-Japanese weekend. Dining with Abe and their wives at a typical Tokyo grill restaurant on Sunday, Trump said ...
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed after less than a year
Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters. The soldiers were freed in November last year, the two inmates said, meaning they served ...
Clashes between prisoners in Brazil jail leave 15 dead
Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said. Brazil has the world?s third largest prison population, with 726,712 inmates as of June 2016, according to official statistics. In September, heavily armed men detonated explosives outside the gate of a prison in northeastern Brazil and then ...
Israeli premier struggles to form govt amid talks of new election
In power for the past decade, Netanyahu has unexpectedly struggled to seal an agreement with a clutch of right-wing, far-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties that would align with his Likud party and ensure him a fifth term following Israel?s April 9 election. In a video published on Twitter on Sunday, Netanyahu said he had invited all of his negotiating ...
Afghan officials: 10 wounded in Kabul minibus bombing
The bombing comes a day after gunmen shot and killed a prominent religious scholar, Mawlavi Shabir Ahmad Kamawi, in Kabul. Last week, a mosque bombing killed another religious scholar during the Friday prayers sermon, also in Kabul.
Romanians punish ruling party in anti-graft referendum, EU poll
Romanians overwhelmingly rejected measures seen as making it harder to tackle rampant state corruption in a non-binding referendum on Sunday, dealing a double blow to the ruling Social Democrats (PSD) who also lost support in European elections. The referendum, called by centrist President Klaus Iohannis, who has often clashed with the PSD over judicial and economic policies, asked voters ...
Qatar says invited to emergency Arab summits in Makkah by Saudi King
Last week Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi Arabia is planning in Islam?s holiest site to discuss the implications of drone strikes on oil installations in the kingdom and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the UAE coast earlier this month. Qatar?s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani ...
Ex-Pakistan minister & diplomat Yusuf Buch eulogized at his funeral in New York
NEW YORK, May 28 (APP):A large number of people on Monday offered funeral prayers for Muhammad Yusuf Buch, a former Pakistani cabinet minister and diplomat, who passed away in New York on Friday after life-long efforts towards building support for the Kashmiri people?s struggle to win freedom from Indian occupation. Senior Pakistani diplomats, UN officials and community leaders attended ...
WHO recognizes ‘burn-out’ as medical condition
In the latest update of its catalogue of diseases and injuries around the world, WHO defines burn-out as ?a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.? It said the syndrome was characterized by three dimensions: ?1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; 2) increased mental distance from one?s job, or feelings of negativism ...
China not yet decides to send envoy in Modi’s oath taking ceremony
BEIJING, May 27 (APP):China has not yet announced to send its envoy to attend Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi?s oath taking ceremony for the second term to be held in New Delhi on May 30.
Three killed, multiple injured in two explosions in Nepali capital: police
KATHMANDU: Three people were killed and five others injured on Sunday in two separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, but the cause of the blasts was unclear, police said. Police official Shyam Lal Gyawali said: ?We have three fatalities in two incidents of explosions but the nature of blasts is under investigation.? One person was killed in an explosion ...
Pakistan accepts India’s request for Sushma Swaraj’s overflight
The publication cited officials in Delhi and Islamabad, saying that Sushma Swaraj?s flight was permitted to go over Pakistani airspace as the Indian minister was due to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation session in Bishkek.
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed after less than a year
YANGON: Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters. The soldiers were freed in November last year, the two inmates said, meaning they ...
Pro-Europe vote fragments but limits nationalist gains in EU election
BRUSSELS: Parties committed to strengthening the European Union held on to two-thirds of seats in the EU parliament, official projections from the bloc?s elections showed on Sunday, though far-right and nationalist opponents saw strong gains. France?s Emmanuel Macron, who has staked his presidency on persuading Europeans that the EU is the answer to the challenges of an uncertain, globalising ...
Aide to winning BJP candidate Smriti Irani shot dead
MUMBAI: An aide to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Smriti Irani, who recently defeated Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi for a seat in parliament, was shot dead overnight, police said on Sunday. In one of the biggest upsets of the election that handed the BJP a second term, Irani beat Gandhi in the Amethi constituency, which had been held ...
Trade put to one side, Trump and Abe do diplomacy over golf and sumo
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump kicked off the second day of a Japan visit on Sunday with a round of golf with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, engaging in personal diplomacy aimed at smoothing tough discussions over differences on trade, especially beef. ?Much will wait until after their July elections where I anticipate big numbers.? Trump, dressed in a red pullover, ...
Europeans vote, with EU future in balance
BRUSSELS: Europeans vote on Sunday in an election expected to further dent traditional pro-EU parties and bolster the nationalist fringe in the European Parliament, putting a potential brake on collective action in economic and foreign policy. Right-wing populists top opinion polls in two of the big four member states - Italy and supposedly exiting Britain - and could also ...
