RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was named the country’s prime minister on Tuesday. King Salman also ordered a cabinet reshuffle, naming his son Khalid Bin Salman, the former deputy defence minister, as the new defence minister. Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman stays as energy minister under a new cabinet, to be headed by […]
Hurricane Ian strengthened into a Category 3 storm on Tuesday, the United States National Hurricane Centre said, as Cuba and Florida — both in the storm’s likely path — ramped up preparations to deal with high winds and potential flooding. About 50,000 people in Cuba’s western Pinar del Rio province moved to safer locations, 6,000 […]
Rescue workers recovered seven more bodies on Monday after a boat carrying religious pilgrims capsized in Bangladesh, taking the death toll to 32 with scores still missing, police said. The small boat packed with mostly women and children on their way to a popular temple flipped over on Sunday in a river as onlookers screamed […]
PARIS: At least 17 people have been killed as popular unrest has flared across Iran over the death in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, while a rights group said Thursday the death toll was almost twice as high. Amini, 22, died last week after her arrest by the Islamic republic’s feared morality police for […]
A strong earthquake jolted Mexico on Thursday, sending people rushing out into the streets of the capital in the middle of the night, days after a powerful tremor left at least two people dead. The epicentre of the 6.9-magnitude quake was near the Pacific coast, 84 kilometres (52 miles) south of Coalcoman in the western […]
China is willing to make the utmost effort to strive for a peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan, a Chinese government spokesperson said on Wednesday, following weeks of military manoeuvres and war games by Beijing near the island. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory. Taiwan’s government rejects China’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s […]
KYIV: Kyiv accused Russia on Monday of attacking Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear plant in the south of the war-scarred country, the latest burst of fighting around atomic facilities that has raised fears of a radiation emergency. The Kremlin meanwhile dismissed outright claims that their forces had been responsible for mass killings in recently captured areas of […]
President Joe Biden issued forceful warnings to China and Russia on Sunday and expressed optimism over the US economic rebound, but surprised many by hedging on whether he’ll seek reelection. In a rare, wide-ranging interview with the CBS “60 Minutes” programme, Biden went back on repeated assertions by the White House that he is sure […]
SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping looked to rally Asian leaders behind a new “international order” as they met on Friday for a summit aimed at challenging Western influence. But cracks in summit solidarity quickly appeared, with the Indian prime minister telling Putin it was “not the time” for the conflict […]
Taiwan said on Friday ties between Russia and China were a threat to global peace and that the international community must resist the “expansion of authoritarianism”. Russia’s Vladimir Putin met Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for their first face-to-face talks since the start of the conflict in Ukraine on Thursday, hailing their strategic ties in defiance of the […]