TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced on Wednesday the development of a surface-to-surface missile whose stated range would put Israel within reach. The Sepahnews website said the missile was named Khaybarchekan after a victorious battle fought by Holy Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) in the seventh century. Armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri described it as […]
OTTAWA: The busiest land crossing from the United States to Canada remained shut on Tuesday, Canada’s border agency said, after Canadian truckers blocked lanes on Monday to protest their government’s pandemic control measures. Drivers demanding an end to federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border traffic began blocking the streets of Canada’s capital, Ottawa, on Jan […]
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is raising red flags about 33 Chinese companies whose legitimacy it cannot verify, imposing new restrictions on their ability to receive shipments from US exporters and requiring extra diligence from American companies that want to do business with them. The Commerce Department said on Monday that it was adding the companies […]
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was discharged on Saturday from the National Heart Institute two weeks after he was admitted and will recuperate at home, the hospital said. The 96-year-old two-time former premier, once the world’s oldest leader, was admitted to the coronary care unit on Jan 20 for the third time in just […]
KIEV: Russia accused the United States on Thursday of ramping up tensions and ignoring Moscow’s calls to ease a standoff over Ukraine, a day after Washington announced it would send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania. Nato meanwhile said Russia had stepped up deployments to Ukraine’s northern neighbour Belarus in recent days and […]
The Taliban are inching closer towards international recognition but any concessions Afghanistan’s new rulers make will be on their terms, the regime’s foreign minister clamed in an interview with AFP. In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged Washington to unlock Afghanistan’s assets to help ease […]
DOHA: Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume chartered evacuations out of Kabul airport, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday citing an interview with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. The agreement was for two flights per week, chartered by Qatar Airways, and would allow the United States and other countries to […]
A United Nations report seen Sunday says the Taliban and its allies allegedly killed more than 100 former Afghan government members, security personnel and people who worked with international forces. The report, an advance copy of which was seen by AFP, describes severe curtailing of human rights by Afghanistan’s new fundamentalist rulers. In addition to the […]
PARIS: Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Paris for talks on Wednesday in a bid to defuse soaring tensions, with France seeking to usher both sides down a “path to de-escalation”. The high-level meeting, attended by senior diplomats from France and Germany, brings together the four countries in a format that has been used repeatedly […]
OSLO: On their first visit to Europe since returning to power, the Taliban held landmark talks with Western diplomats in Oslo on Monday over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a meeting the Islamist regime’s delegation called an “achievement in itself”. The international community has however insisted the Taliban must respect human rights before aid can […]