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U.S. national security adviser John Bolton axed
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly fired his national security adviser John Bolton amid disagreements with his hard-line aide over how to handle foreign policy challenges such as North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and Russia. “I informed John Bolton last night
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Turkish paper reveals Khashoggi’s final words before death
ANKARA: Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah said yesterday revealed the audio recordings of the final words of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered last October in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, reported Xinhua news agency. The audios were obtained
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Hasty rollout of Trump immigration policy has ‘broken’ border courts
On the day she was set to see a US immigration judge in San Diego last month, Katia took every precaution. After waiting two months in Mexico to press her case for US asylum, the 20-year-old student from Nicaragua arrived
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Mugabe’s body to leave Singapore for Zimbabwe today
SINGAPORE: The body of Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be flown home from Singapore today, five days after he died in hospital in the city-state, according to an event schedule. A plane carrying Mugabe’s body was due to leave
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British PM remains opposed to Northern Ireland-only backstop
DUBLIN: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Northern Ireland allies that he is opposed to the idea of a so-called Northern Ireland-only backstop to get a Brexit deal done, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said yesterday. After
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Amazon fires: Farmers are poor, not villains
HUMAITA: Farmers living along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near Humaita, a rural town deep in the Amazon, would rather not use fire to clear forest land so they can grow crops and raise cattle, their local representatives say. But without the
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Netanyahu: I will annex Jordan Valley if I win polls
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention yesterday to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, if he wins a closely contested election just a week away. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in
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UN chief urges all countries to sign, ratify treaty on nuclear test ban
NEW YORK: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all countries to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), while calling nuclear testing in the 21st century “simply not acceptable”m, Xinhua news agency reported. The CTBT is one
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“Hong Kong is the new Cold War’s Berlin”
BERLIN: Comparing the struggle of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters to the role of Berlin during the Cold War, activist Joshua Wong told an audience in the German capital that his city was now a bulwark between the free world and
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Judge allows Facebook privacy class action to proceed
SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media company’s views on privacy “so
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