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When it comes to regional peace and stability, there’s not much to be optimistic about in South Asia these days. The India-Pakistan relationship is ice cold thanks to a military crisis in February 2019 and India’s decision last August to…

Chinese refiners have stopped importing US crude oil since early 2019 amid an increasingly bitter trade dispute between Washington and Beijing. There had been expectations of a resumption in the trade at the start of the year following…

When Brian Hook, America’s special representative for Iran, flew to Switzerland earlier this month to receive Michael White, a US hostage released from Iranian captivity, he had another meeting in mind. As White arrived, escorted by Iranian…

The tit for tat expulsion of diplomats has triggered a new round of diplomatic hostility between India and Pakistan in a sign of heightening tension between the two nuclear-armed nations. Pakistan has asked India to reduce its diplomatic…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…