Category: International

The public and private sector holidays for the upcoming year have recently been published by the UAE Cabinet — in 2024, there will be six definite days to look forward to, so it’s never too early to start making plans so you can maximise your vacation time. UAE public holidays in 2024: Confirmed holidays Monday January 1: New Year’s Day. Ramadan 29 to Shawwal 3: Eid Al-Fitr. Dhu Al Hijjah 9: Arafat Day. Dhu Al Hijjah 10 to 12: Eid Al-Adha. Muharram 1: Islamic New Year. Rabi’ Al-Awwal 12: Prophet…

ISLAMABAD: In an important diplomatic development, Russia has changed its experienced ambassador in Pakistan Danila V. Ganich. He has been transferred to the Kremlin for the next assignment. Interestingly, Pakistan recently changed its ambassador for Russia when Shafqat Ali Khan was posted as Additional Foreign Secretary in Islamabad. Khalid Jamali has been appointed ambassador to Russia and he is yet to present his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jamali has reached Moscow. Well-placed diplomatic sources told The News here Monday that Danila Ganich would return to Moscow next month…

The allegations surfaced once again, this time in a BBC Urdu report, which claimed Pakistan sold weapons to two US arms firms, which were then sent onwards to Ukraine. The spokeswoman at the Foreign Office was asked during the weekly presser whether the BBC Urdu report indicated it was a fact that Pakistani weapons were being used in the Ukrainian battlefield, regardless of whether they went through the US or not. “I reaffirm what we have said in the past that Pakistan has not sold weapons to Ukraine or to…

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…