Says continued exchange of heavy fire between Pak-India along LoC poses risk of gradual escalation of hostilities WASHINGTON: US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director Lt Gen Robert P Ashley has said that…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India will be compelled to engage with the US, and even other strong powers like China, and try and achieve their crisis objectives through them rather than contemplating direct…
BEIJING: China firmly opposes the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) published by the United States Department of Defence, a spokesman from China’s National Defence Ministry said Sunday. The US document presumptuously speculated about the intentions…
Lethal levels of radiation have been observed inside Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. And they are arguably way higher than you suspect. According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), radiation levels of eight…
TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it would retaliate against new sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump set an ultimatum to fix “disastrous flaws” in a deal curbing Tehran’s…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pressed the importance of maintaining Iran’s nuclear accord, the Elysee Palace said on Saturday. “The president spoke of the importance…
SEOUL: North Korea has stepped up tunnelling at its main nuclear test site, a United States think-tank said, even as tensions cool on the Peninsula following the resumption of long-stalled inter-Korean dialogue. Satellite…
BRUSSELS: European powers will reaffirm on Thursday their support for the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump has rejected, EU diplomats said, on the eve of a deadline for the US president…
SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday the improvement of inter-Korean relations was linked to resolving North Korea’s nuclear program, a day after the North offered talks with Seoul but…
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights…
ISLAMABAD: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was declared distinguished alumnus of three international universities, according to a local newspaper. The University of Leuven, Belgium; Technical University of Berlin, Germany; and the Technological…
Donald Trump has urged President Xi Jinping of China to take fast and effective action to extinguish North Korea’s nuclear “menace” after the US president was officially welcomed to Beijing with an…
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican is to host a high-level international conference on nuclear weapons in November set to be dominated by the escalating confrontation between the US and North Korea. Nobel peace…
MOSCOW: Russia conducted several ballistic missile tests on Thursday from “land, air, and sea” as part of its strategic nuclear programme, the Defence Ministry announced. A “Topol” intercontinental ballistic missile was fired…
TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Sunday the five-year prison sentence given to a Canadian-Iranian member of its nuclear negotiating team on spying charges. “Mr Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani… was among some who were…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisers to Pakistan in the coming weeks, turning up the heat on a nuclear-armed ally accused of harbouring terror groups,…
SEOUL: Several North Korean missiles were recently spotted moved from a rocket facility in the capital Pyongyang, South Korea’s Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported late Friday amid speculation that the North was…
