UNITED NATIONS: The Afghan people are in for a “very difficult year ahead”, warned the top US aid official, as donors grapple with challenging a Taliban administration crackdown on women and girls, more crises around the world and overall less funding. The Taliban seized power in August 2021 as US-ledContinue Reading
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA: China sharply criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comment that linked Chinese-produced lithium to slave labour, and warned Canada could face consequences if it continues “denigrating maliciously” the human rights situation in China. Trudeau, during his visit to the US last week, linked the production of lithium in ChinaContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: South Korea will soon engage with China at the senior level and also seek the opportunity for diplomacy aimed at trilateral cooperation with Japan and China, South Korea’s ambassador to Washington Cho Hyun-dong said on Thursday (May 4). Cho told an event hosted by Washington’s Center for Strategic andContinue Reading
DOHA: Despite the Taliban’s limitations on its female staff, the UN will remain in Afghanistan to provide aid to millions of desperate Afghans, but funding is running low, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Tuesday( May 2 ) Guterres also stated that worries about Afghanistan’s integrity were growing in hisContinue Reading
KATHMANDU: A US mountaineer has died on Everest in the fourth fatality on the world’s highest peak this climbing season. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, was on an acclimatisation rotation at around 6,400m when he died on Monday (May 1), his expedition organiser said. “He was feeling unwell and passed away atContinue Reading
UNITED NATIONS: A UN Security Council committee on Monday (May 1) agreed to allow the Taliban administration’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said. Muttaqi has long been subjected to a travelContinue Reading
PAPEETE: Pro-independence forces won elections on France’s Pacific territory of French Polynesia, giving them control of affairs on the archipelagos for the next five years and opening the way to a possible referendum on their status, according to results published Monday. The Tavini huiraatira party headed by the overseas territory’sContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in India-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters. The World Health Organization said last year the syrups,Continue Reading
NEW DELHI : An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters. The World Health Organization said last year theContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister warned on Saturday (Apr 29) that a US-South Korean agreement aimed at strengthening deterrence against Pyongyang will lead to “more serious danger”, state media reported. The United States and South Korea vowed this week that North Korea would face a nuclearContinue Reading