Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to end fight in Nagorno-Karabakh
Yerevan (Armenia): Armenia and Azerbaijan announced an agreement early Tuesday to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan under a pact signed with Russia that calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. Nagorno-Karabakh has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a 1994 truce ended […]
Human toll of incendiary weapons documented in new report
Kabul: A new report released Monday documents the use of incendiary weapons and their horrific human cost on civilians over the past decade in conflict zones like Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip and Syria, with Human Rights Watch and Harvard’s human rights clinic calling on nations to close loopholes in international law and stigmatise their use. […]
Trump, GOP test out rallying cry: Count the ‘legal’ votes
Washington: President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Joe Biden holds in key battleground states: count all “legal” votes. The language is freighted with a clear implication, namely that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which […]
UAE announces relaxing of Islamic laws for personal freedoms
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalising so-called “honour killings.” The broadening of personal freedoms reflects the changing profile of a country that has sought to bill itself as a skyscraper-studded destination for Western tourists, […]
Nations long targeted by US chide Trump’s claims of fraud
Bogota (Colombia): Demands to stop the vote count. Baseless accusations of fraud. Claims that the opposition is trying to “steal” the election. Across the world, many were scratching their heads on Friday — especially in countries that have long been advised by Washington on how to run elections — wondering if those assertions could truly […]
UN to commemorate all victims of World War II on Dec 1
United Nations: The UN General Assembly decided Thursday to hold a meeting on December 1 to commemorate all victims of World War II, which ended 75 years ago. The Russian-drafted resolution was adopted by consensus after the 193-member assembly voted 54-40 with 45 abstention to eliminate a paragraph in the text that Germany, the US […]
Presidential election exposes America’s ‘perilous’ divides
New York: Presidential elections can be revealing moments that convey the wishes of the American people to the next wave of elected officials. So far, the big reveal in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is the extent of the cavernous divide between Republican and Democratic America, one that […]
Networks cut away from Trump’s White House address
New York: ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him. Trump on Thursday tried to commandeer the nation’s airwaves at a time when the evening newscasts are shown on the East […]
World waits nervously, impatiently for US election result
Washington: From Ford Model T cars that popped off the assembly line in just 90 minutes to 60-second service for burgers, the United States has long had a major hand in making the world a frenetic and impatient place, primed and hungry for instant gratification. So the world’s realization Wednesday that the U.S. election winner […]
China vows ‘proper’ response to US arms sale to Taiwan
Beijing: China vowed Wednesday that it will make a “proper and necessary response” if the US proceeds with its latest planned arms sale to Taiwan. Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the sale of USD 600 million in armed drones to the island “brutally interferes in China’s internal affairs and seriously undermines China’s sovereignty and […]
