Eight people were wounded in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon on Sunday night, local media reported. Citing La Provence newspaper on Monday, Xinhua reported that authorities are not considering the incident as a terrorist attack. Police suspected the shooting was due to a dispute between young […]
The UN Human Rights said that the demand by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain for Qatar to close its Al-Jazeera television channel as a condition for normalizing relations is an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression and opinion. “Whether or not you watch it, like it, or agree with its editorial […]
A doctor opened fire inside a New York City hospital where he used to work, killing one and wounding six others before turning the gun on himself, law enforcement officials said. Police officers found the gunman, identified as Henry Bello, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 17th floor of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, New York […]
China’s President Xi Jinping warned that efforts “to challenge the power of the central government” in Hong Kong are “absolutely impermissible”, as the former British colony marked 20 years of Chinese rule Saturday. “Any attempt to endanger China’s sovereignty and security or use Hong Kong to carry out infiltration and sabotage activities against the mainland […]
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry criticized several German politicians who opposed the Turkish president’s plan to hold a speech in Germany for ethnic Turks in another diplomatic spat between the two nations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday requested permission to address a gathering of his compatriots on the sidelines of a G20 meeting set to be […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron vowed to defend an international climate change agreement at an upcoming G20 summit, in spite of the decision of the US to withdraw from the pact. The two leaders made their comments on Thursday in a joint press statement after a meeting with other European heads […]
US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the White House said. US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made the announcement at a White House briefing on Thursday, adding that “there is no specific agenda. It’s really going to be whatever […]
Pakistan Army violated ceasefire and resorted to unprovoked shelling and firing on Friday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan Army used small arms, mortars and automatics to fire at Indian positions in Bhimber Gali area in Jammu and Kashmir. “The shelling and firing started at 4.15 […]
The Islamist Hamas movement, which governs Gaza, announced that it has begun to build a buffer zone near the border between the coastal enclave and Egypt. Head of security in Gaza Tawfiq Abu Naim, told reporters on Wednesday that the aim is to control the border area and increase security on the southern boundary with […]
India has contributed $100,000 to a UN fund to promote the participation of developing countries in a panel dealing with international cooperation in tax matters. Ashish Sinha, a First Secretary in India’s Mission to the UN, handed over the cheque for the UN Tax Fund to Shari Spiegel, chief of the Policy Development and Analysis […]