Category: International

LONDON/PARIS/BRUSSELS: Huge pro-Palestinian supporters crowds marched through Paris, Brussels and the British capital on Saturday, making their latest mass call for a ceasefire. The “National March for Palestine”, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, set off after a two-minutes’ silence to remember Britain’s war dead on Armistice Day was observed at The Cenotaph war memorial in central London at 1100 GMT. Huge crowds of protesters waved black, red, white and green Palestinian flags and held aloft placards proclaiming “Stop Bombing Gaza”, just over a month since a Hamas attack…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on November 15 in the San Francisco area to try to “stabilize” relations after recent tensions between the two superpowers, US officials said. The meeting, which had not previously been confirmed, is not expected to produce major outcomes but is aimed at avoiding conflict between China and the United States, said senior administration officials. Biden and Xi will also discuss pressing global crises such as the Israel-Hamas war and Russia´s invasion of Ukraine, as well as tensions over…

Ivanka Trump made her much-awaited appearance on Wednesday, following an extraordinary eight days of witness evidence, which featured Donald Trump and three of his adult children in the civil fraud trial filed by the New York attorney general’s office, Ivanka Trump made her much-awaited appearance on Wednesday. After hearing from the oldest Trump daughter, who was questioned about her involvement in obtaining loans for the Trump Organisation and a penthouse apartment she rented from her father, the AG’s office decided to withdraw its case. There were no explosions or irate…

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear won reelection to a second term on Tuesday, securing another noteworthy statewide win that may serve as a blueprint for other Democrats hoping to prosper politically in the run-up to the pivotal presidential election of the following year. “Tonight, Kentucky made a choice, a choice not to move to the right or to the left but to move forward for every single family,” Governor Beshear told a raucous crowd of supporters in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky governor resisted attempts to link him to Democratic President Joe…

ISLAMABAD: Azerbaijan ambassador Khazar Farhadov has reminded that during the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia and 44 days of the war, brotherly Pakistan supported Azerbaijan morally and diplomatically. Addressing a victory day reception here Tuesday evening, the ambassador paid rich tributes to the people of Pakistan and government for their continuous support. “It is no coincidence that the Pakistani flags are waved along with the Azerbaijani and Turkish flags in Azerbaijan by the common people in the country as a sign of respect and gratitude to the Pakistani brothers and…

WASHINGTON: William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, arrived in Israel on Sunday for discussions with leaders and intelligence officials, the first stop in a multicountry trip in the region, according to U.S. officials. According to US media, the visit comes as the United States is trying to prod Israel to pursue a more targeted approach to attacking Hamas, allow pauses in the fighting for aid to enter Gaza and do more to avoid civilian casualties. A U.S. official briefed on Burns’s trip said he planned to reinforce the American commitment…

At least 132 people have been killed while more than 100 sustained injuries as security forces mobilised to help with a desperate rescue attempt on Saturday after a strong overnight 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of Nepal. The US Geological Survey estimated that the late Friday, 5.6-magnitude earthquake was only 18 kilometres (11 miles) deep when it struck the remote western region of the Himalayan nation. Videos and photos posted on social media showed locals digging through rubble in the dark to pull survivors from the wreckage of…