Browsing Category
Uncategorized
China to impose visa restrictions on US individuals over Hong Kong
BEIJING: Beijing said on Monday it will impose visa restrictions on US individuals with “egregious conduct” on Hong Kong-related issues, mirroring US sanctions against unnamed Chinese officials deemed responsible for curbing freedoms in the…
POL prices raised by 25pc against 112pc surge in int’l market, govt claims
ISLAMABAD: Two senior government officials on Saturday defended the decision to increase the price of all petroleum products in the country, saying that the government had tried to provide relief to the people amid rising international…
EU delays decision on border reopening
BRUSSELS: The EU cannot agree on a list of “safe countries” from where travelers could visit Europe in July, with some member states requiring more time to decide, diplomats said Saturday.
After days of talks, EU envoys on Friday agreed to…
US tops 2.5m corona cases, deaths surge to 125,000
WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday surpassed 2.5 million coronavirus cases, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed, as the world’s hardest-hit country grappled with a surge of infections in several states.
There…
Taliban deny claims Russia paid militants to attack US troops
KABUL: The Taliban has denied US media reports claiming a Russian intelligence unit secretly rewarded them for targeting American troops in Afghanistan.
“We have heard these reports and they are false and baseless,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a…
Libya calls for sanctions on foreign mercenaries
TRIPOLI: Libya’s permanent representative to the UN, Taher el-Sonni, on Saturday called for imposing sanctions on Russian and Sudanese mercenaries in the country.
On Friday, mercenaries from Wagner Group and the Sudanese Janjaweed…
China sees uptick in new Covid-19 cases, including 17 in Beijing
BEIJING: Mainland China reported on Saturday the highest number of new coronavirus cases in four days, driven by a Covid-19 resurgence in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
The National Health Commission reported 21 new confirmed infections…
Potential coronavirus vaccine could be available from October
Potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford could be up for release as soon as October, according to a leading scientist.
Professor Adrian Hill, the director of the Jenner Institute at the…
PIA moves to assuage concern over ‘dubious’ pilot licences
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has written to foreign missions and global regulatory and safety bodies, assuring them it has grounded all 141 pilots suspected of obtaining licenses through unfair means, the carrier’s…
India rejects Pakistan’s offer to open Kartarpur Corridor on June 29
ISLAMABAD: India has rejected an offer made by Pakistan on Saturday for the reopening of the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims on June 29, saying that cross-border travel has been suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The…
