Vice President’s upcoming visit to further deepen friendship, advance CPEC development: China
BEIJING, May 24 (APP):Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan?s upcoming visit to Pakistan will further deepen high-level exchanges, friendship and mutual trust between China and Pakistan and advance development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) besides bilateral cooperation across the board, a Chinese foreign ministry?s spokesperson said on Friday. ?We believe the vice president?s visit will further deepen high-level exchanges, ...
Guterres looking forward to working with Modi as UN stand on Kashmir ‘unchanged’: Spokesman
NEW YORK, May 23 (APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres looks forward to working with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his spokesman said Thursday as Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party won the national elections. The Secretary-General and him have especially a strong relationship when it come to issues around climate change.? Dujarric added that as of now, he did not ...
Trump reacts angrily to his ex-secretary of state’s claim that Putin out-prepared him
Tillerson, whom Trump fired by tweet in March 2018, told lawmakers that Russian President Vladimir Putin was better prepared than Trump for a key meeting in Germany in 2017, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed committee aides. On Thursday, Trump fired back on Twitter, repeating his characterization of Tillerson as ?dumb as a rock? and accusing him of lying ...
Money to fund Gaza humanitarian operations will run out in mid-June: UNRWA chief warns
UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (APP):The head of the UN relief and works agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that despite weathering a ?truly existential crisis? over funding last year, money to continue operations this year in the Gaza Strip will only last until mid-June. Krahenbuhl said the severe hardship endured by Gazans after ?successive armed confrontations, blockade and ...
About 185,000 Afghan refugees return home in 2019
BEIJING, May 23 (APP):About 185,000 Afghan refugees have returned from Pakistan, Iran and European Union states since the beginning of this year, Chinese media while quoting a report of United Nations migration agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM) here on Thursday.
FCO hosts Iftar cum dinner for UK based Pakistani journalists
LONDON, May 23 (APP):The officials of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom, here on Wednesday evening hosted an Iftar cum Dinner for UK based Pakistani media persons at the Maison du Mezze near Leicester Square. The newly designated United Kingdom Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan Karachi Consulate Mike Nithavrianakis, Senior Communication officer designated of United Kingdom ...
China, Pakistan agree to enhance high-level exchanges in view of current global situation: Spokesperson
BEIJING, May 23 (APP):China and Pakistan have agreed to enhance high-level exchanges and strengthen pragmatic cooperation for more progress in the bilateral relations in wake of the changing international situation, a spokesperson of Chinese foreign ministry Thursday said. ?The two sides also agreed to jointly implement the consensus reached by our two leaders during Prime Minister Imran Khan?s attendance ...
3 Pakistanis die in KSA road accident
Three Pakistani nationals died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. According to details, a vehicle carrying five Pakistanis collided with another vehicle.
Trump ‘furious’ as impeachment talk heats up
Donald Trump erupted in fury Wednesday at unrelenting probes into his links to Russia, as the top Democrat in Congress accused the president of a ?cover-up? that could be an impeachable offense. A livid Trump abruptly shut down a White House meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, announcing he could not deal with them on policy ...
Shattered Philippine city a tool for jihadist recruitment
?The narratives (to join IS) used to be about the Middle East and the plight of Muslims around the world,? said Mouhammad Sharief, who co-founded a support group for Marawi?s youth. ?Now it?s closer to our hearts because the narrative is Marawi,? said 32-year-old Sharief, who was himself displaced by the fighting. ?The government needs to be concerned about ...
EU ‘hoodie’ the street cred emblem of German candidates
Fashion historian Uta-Christiane Bergemann noted that the sweater allows pro-European candidates, whether from the right or left, ?to convey a very direct and quickly understandable message?.
New Jersey man charged with threatening to bomb Trump Tower
A 20-year-old New Jersey man accused of threatening on social media to ?shoot everybody? at a pro-Israel march and bomb the Trump Tower skyscraper in New York City was arrested on Wednesday on a string of federal charges, prosecutors said. ?The actions that he took and planned to take made that threat both clear and present.? According to the charging ...
‘American Taliban’ Lindh released from US prison: The Washington Post
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Lindh?s release ?unexplainable and unconscionable.? ?There?s something deeply troubling and wrong about it,? he said on Fox News on Thursday morning. Leaked US government documents published by Foreign Policy magazine show the federal government as recently as 2016 described Lindh as holding ?extremist views.? ?What is the current interagency policy, strategy, and process ...
Brazil’s president wins, justice minister loses in Congress
But lawmakers voted against putting the Council for Financial Activities Control (COAF), a key tool for flagging suspicious funds moving through the banking system, under the control of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, a former judge who jailed many politicians in the sweeping corruption probe known as Car Wash. ?I lament what happened,? Moro said, according to newspaper O Globo. ?It?s ...
Populists looking to cause upsets as EU elections begin
Opposed to closer EU integration In the Netherlands, flamboyant populist Thierry Baudet, a classics-quoting climate sceptic, is on course to beat Prime Minister Mark Rutte?s Liberals. These are the ninth European parliament elections since they began in 1979 and voter turnout has dropped each time, hitting 43 percent in 2014. Le Pen wants to strike a blow to Emmanuel Macron?s ...
Upstart nationalist Baudet vies to become largest Dutch party in Europe
Baudet, who styled himself ?the most important intellectual in the Netherlands? in a 2016 tweet, emphasizes ?Dutch first? cultural and economic themes. ?These elections hinge on the question of whether or not the largest party in the Netherlands is one that wants Nexit,? Rutte said ahead of the vote, referring to the possibility that the Netherlands follow Britain in ...
Theresa May hunkers down as premiership enters its end stage
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India’s Modi begins talks for new cabinet after big election win
?While the macroeconomic picture looks stable and promising, many important segments need support from the government,? BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav wrote in a column in the? ?daily. He has not yet set an inauguration date for the administration, but BJP officials said he was expected to move quickly to put together a new cabinet. ?But, in the meantime, a ...
US charges Julian Assange with violating Espionage Act
The Justice Department on Thursday charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010, rejecting his claim that he is a journalist. The department unveiled 17 new charges against Assange, accusing him of directing and abetting intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in stealing secret US files, and also recklessly ...
Five challenges for India’s victorious Modi
With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party re-elected in a landslide, AFP looks at the challenges facing his government over the coming five years. Modi in his first term fell short on creating jobs for the more than a million Indians entering the labour market every month, experts say. India?s air is also a health ...
