18-year-old US national pleads guilty to providing support to LeT
Washington, May 9: An 18-year-old US national Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charges supporting and recruiting fighters for Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Michael Kyle Sewell, from Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested in February, has admitted to encouraging an individual, identified in court documents only as […]
Bangladeshi IS fighter arrested after returning from Syria
Dhaka, May 9: A Saudi Arabia-born Bangladeshi, who returned to the country after fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, has been arrested by the counter-terrorism police for alleged plans to establish a caliphate in the Muslim-majority country. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Bangladeshi father and a Pakistani mother, 33-year-old Motaj Abdul Majid […]
US uniformly opposes blasphemy laws anywhere in world: Pompeo
Washington, May 9: The US said Wednesday it uniformly opposed blasphemy laws anywhere in the world as it welcomed the reunification of Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi with her family in Canada, months after her death sentence was overturned. Bibi, a mother of four from Punjab province, was taken out of Pakistan after repeated death […]
Iran suspends nuclear deal curbs in push for relief from US sanctions
Tehran, May 8 : Iran said Wednesday it had stopped respecting limits on its nuclear activities agreed under a 2015 deal with major powers until they find a way to bypass renewed US sanctions. The well trailed announcement came as Washington stepped up its rhetoric against Tehran, accusing it of planning “imminent” attacks and deploying […]
China says Iran nuclear pact must be upheld
Beijing, May 8 : China on Wednesday called on all parties to uphold the Iranian nuclear pact after Tehran said it would end curbs on its uranium enrichment stockpile unless other powers helped it bypass renewed US sanctions. “Maintaining and implementing the comprehensive agreement is the shared responsibility of all parties,” said Chinese foreign ministry […]
Kremlin denounces ‘unreasonable pressure’ on Iran
Moscow, May 8 : Russia on Wednesday said it stood by the Iran nuclear deal and denounced US pressure that led to Tehran to suspend some of its commitments under the agreement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin remained committed to the agreement and that there were no alternatives “at the moment” to […]
China Vice Premier Liu He headed to Washington for trade talks with Trump administration
Washington, May 8: China is sending a high-ranking delegation, led by Vice Premier Liu He, to Washington to resume trade negotiations with the United States, media reports said here. Reports of He’s visit come after two days of uncertainty on the fate of US-China trade negotiations as President Donald Trump and his top officials accused […]
UN chief praises India for counter-terrorism support, says terrorists fleeing IS should be tackled
United Nations, May 8 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appreciated India’s support to the counter-terrorism work of the world body and underscored the need to “detect and disrupt” terrorists fleeing the Islamic State prior to them carrying out an attack as a high priority for the international community. The UN chief made these remarks […]
IMF chief says US-China tensions ‘threat’ to world economy
Paris, May 7: The head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that fresh trade tensions between the United States and China were the main threat to the world economy. “Clearly the tensions between the United States and China are the threat for the world economy,” Christine Lagarde told journalists at a conference in Paris, […]
Indigenous peoples, ‘guardians of Nature’, under siege
Paris, May 7 : From Amazon rainforests to the Arctic Circle, indigenous peoples are leveraging ancestral knowhow to protect habitats that have sustained them for hundreds and even thousands of years, according to a landmark UN assessment of biodiversity released Monday. But these “guardians of nature” are under siege, warns the first major UN scientific […]
