SAYANOGORSK: Workers at one of Russia’s biggest aluminum smelters say their Siberian town is doomed unless Moscow mitigates US sanctions against aluminum giant Rusal, a predicament mirrored across the company’s sprawling operations.…
ISLAMABAD: US Department of State’s Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Ambassador Alice Wells arrived in Islamabad on Monday. She was received by Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua…
WASHINGTON: Former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday he will write a $4.5 million check to cover this year’s US financial commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. President…
NEW YORK: A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warned as US and North…
Civilian authorities in Pakistan maintained effective control over security forces in the last few years as orderly transitions in top political and military leadership helped solidify the democratic process in the country,…
DUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, as US President…
SEOUL: North Korea will immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, the North’s state media said on Saturday, ahead of…
WASHINGTON: The United States has credible information that Russia and Syria are trying to “sanitise” the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria while denying access to the area by…
WASHINGTON: The United States and a group of other nations have agreed to boost cooperation to deny “corrupt” Venezuelan officials and their support networks access to the international financial system, US Treasury…
ANKARA: Iran warned the United States on Thursday of “unpleasant” consequences if Washington pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported. “Iran has several options if the United States…
DHAKA: US envoy Sam Brownback called on Thursday for the release of journalists jailed in Myanmar while covering the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims forced to flee a military crackdown. Brownback spoke…
SEOUL: North Korea has expressed its commitment to “complete denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula and has not attached conditions, South Korea’s president said on Thursday, but Washington remains wary and has vowed…
MANILA: Annual US-Philippine military exercises involving thousands of troops will be expanded for the first time to include other countries, with Japanese and Australian forces invited to join what will be the…
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Thursday that while there were no signs the Syrian government was preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack, President Bashar al-Assad still retained the ability to launch…
When France´s ambassador to Washington told American officials last July that he was heading to Paris and would shortly see President Emmanuel Macron, one of them handed him a copy of the…
OTTAWA: The top US, Canadian and Mexican officials driving NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) renegotiations will meet in Washington on Thursday, a Canadian government source said on Tuesday, as pressure for…
UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley fired back at White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Tuesday over his remarks that she may have been confused over Washington’s…
