LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday (Mar 22) sought a parliament ruling to empower authorities to tackle former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party’s alleged involvement in violence. The ruling was asked for in a joint session of parliament convened over the instability caused by the crisis overContinue Reading
But Daly said Xi casting himself as a mediator could help at the margins in Europe, and especially in developing nations which share little of the US enthusiasm for preserving an “international rules-based order”. Xi “doesn’t actually have to move the needle on peace or a ceasefire in Ukraine”, heContinue Reading
Goldy Hyder, chief executive of the Business Council of Canada, said he wanted more of a recognition from the US that the two nations’ economies were highly integrated and that Canadian firms could benefit from the IRA. “It is not in America’s interest to consolidate the capital to consolidate theContinue Reading
STANDARD PRACTICE Speaking shortly before Taiwan’s announcement of Tsai’s trip, a senior US administration official said that her expected transits are standard practice and China should not use them as a pretext for aggressive action toward the democratically governed island. But the senior US official told reporters on a callContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday (Mar 20) signed into law a Bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins …, includingContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday (Mar 20) signed a bill that requires Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify information related to the origins of COVID-19, the White House said. Biden said he shared Congress’ goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin ofContinue Reading
NO SIGN OF UNREST In his call for protests, Trump raised concerns with law enforcement that supporters might engage in violence similar to the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters police were monitoring social media and keeping an eye out forContinue Reading
MOSCOW: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday (Mar 20) where he was expected to press Beijing’s role as a potential peacemaker in the Ukraine conflict while Russian President Vladimir Putin hoped for support against Western pressure. Xi’s three-day trip to Russia – his first in nearly four yearsContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s embassy in Britain on Sunday (Mar 19) condemned a visit this week by British lawmakers to Taiwan, saying they were insisting on visiting the island despite China’s strong opposition. Taiwan’s Presidential Office said the group of six lawmakers from the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group would meet President TsaiContinue Reading
The ICC issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine, a highly symbolic move that isolates the Russian leader further. While Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a number of trips to the battlefield to boostContinue Reading