Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will respond in kind if the US withdraws from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Putin’s warning followed US President Donald Trump’s weekend announcement that he intends to opt out of the landmark 1987 nuclear arms control pact – which rid Europe of land-based nuclear missiles – over alleged Russian violations. “If[…]
Genocide continues to take place against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy, a UN investigator said. Marzuki Darusman, chair of the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar, said the estimated 250,000 to 400,000 Rohingya who remained in[…]
A viral outbreak at a New Jersey long-term medical care centre has killed six children and left a dozen more infected. State officials confirmed a total of 18 cases of adenovirus among paediatric patients at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Tuesday. Adenoviruses typically cause “mild illness” but[…]
US President Donald Trump has called Saudi Arabia’s response to the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi “the worst cover-up ever”. Those behind the killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul three weeks ago “should be in big trouble”, he said. Shortly afterwards, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said[…]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ranked first place in the 2019 edition of the World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims. Prepared annually by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, the book notes that Erdoğan became Turkey’s first popularly-elected president in August 2014 and then secured a second term in the 2018[…]
Palestinian critics are regularly beaten, tortured and detained for long periods without trial by each of the rival Palestinian governments in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. Both the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza[…]
Russia has warned US President Donald Trump’s push to withdraw from a landmark anti-proliferation weapons deal could spark a new arms race between Moscow and Washington and “make the world a more dangerous place”. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia would be forced to act if the[…]
Mexico has issued an alert for parts of its Pacific seaboard as it prepares for the “life-threatening” Hurricane Willa. Willa is expected to make landfall on Mexico’s south-western coast on Tuesday and is “potentially catastrophic”, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned. Currently a Category Four – out of five –[…]
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered words of consolation on Monday as she met relatives of 18 people killed and 187 injured when a train derailed in the island’s northeast, its worst rail disaster in more than three decades. Officials said four carriages overturned on Sunday after all eight cars of[…]
The UK, France and Germany have denounced writer Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, demanding urgent clarification from Saudi Arabia over his death. A joint statement said the explanation that Mr Khashoggi died after a “fist fight” in the consulate in Istanbul needed “to be backed by facts to be considered credible”. President[…]
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