US President Donald Trump offered a solemn tribute to America’s service members during a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, honoring those who gave their lives in war and those serving in defence of the country. “Here at this hallowed shrine, we honour the noblest among us, the men and women who paid the […]
Forty-one out of Pakistans 64 banned outfits are present on Facebook in the form of groups and individual user profiles and were operating openly via the social media giant, a media report said on Monday. According to an investigation carried out by Dawn news last month, the outfits’ network, both interconnected and public, is a […]
Two teachers allegedly pushed a Class nine girl student from the third floor of the school building in Pakistan’s Lahore city, causing life-threatening injuries, the media reported on Monday. The incident took place at the City District Government Girls School, in Shahdara locality of Lahore city. Allah Bakhsh Malik, Secretary Education (Schools) of Punjab province, […]
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that there was indeed a deeper significance to the prolonged handshake he shared with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Brussels. “My handshake with him, it’s not innocent,” Macron told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview published on Sunday. “It’s not the alpha and the omega of politics, but […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her experience at international summits featuring US President Donald Trump showed her Europe cannot “completely” rely on Washington and other longstanding allies, the media reported. “The times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over,” Merkel said on Sunday at a campaign event in Munich. “I […]
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner was “more than willing to answer any and all questions” following reports of his meetings with Russian officials, according to a top US official. Tennessee Senator and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker told USA Today on Sunday night that he felt no urgency in […]
North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile on Monday morning that landed in the ocean, the US military said. South Korea and Japan immediately protested the missile launch, the most recent test-firing by North Korea as it seeks to develop nuclear weapons that can reach US military bases, CNN reported. The missile was fired […]
The US military blamed the Islamic State (IS) group for the death of more than 100 civilians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul in a March airstrike by coalition forces. The airstrike on March 17 against two IS snipers ignited a large amount of explosive material the group had placed in the structure, where 101 […]
US President Donald Trump called on NATO members to focus on defeating terrorism and urged them to pay a fair share towards the Alliance’s upkeep. Trump on Thursday was speaking during the unveiling of a monument ceded by the US to Brussels to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks at the […]
China voiced strong protest against a US Navy warship passing close to the Meiji Reef in the South China Sea. “The USS Dewey illegally entered the waters near the island on early Thursday without permission of the Chinese government,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang at a press briefing on Thursday. “Such moves have […]