International

Redding, Jul 28 : In the small northern California community of Keswick, only a handful of homes remain. The air is thick with the smell of smoke and chemicals. The rubble of people’s lives still smoldered a day after the so-called Carr Fire moved through Shasta County like a freight train. The flames so thoroughly ate up homes that it’s ...

Washington, Jul 28 : The United States on Friday questioned the fairness of Wednesday’s elections in Pakistan adding that it shared the concerns expressed by the European Union and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, reports the DAWN. In a statement released to the media, the US State Department underlined what it said were flaws in the pre-voting electoral process ...

Washington, July 28 : Rarely has an RSVP been so complicated. President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow — if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin said he’s game for a trip to Washington — but his answer came only after Trump retracted his invitation for a fall sit-down. The ...

Paris, July 28 : The former presidential security aide at the center of a firestorm over his violent behavior toward a protester on May Day says President Emmanuel Macron is not to blame and that he committed “a form of betrayal” of his boss. The identification 10 days ago of Alexandre Benalla as the man in a video acting violently ...

Washington, July 28 : President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday for “fulfilling a promise” to return the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War, as a U.S. military plane made a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases said to contain remains. Close to 7,700 U.S. soldiers remain unaccounted for ...

At least 37 people have been killed this week as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide swaths of land in northern India. Weather officials have predicted more rains in the next 48 hours in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.   Government spokesman Awanish Awasthi said Saturday that the deaths occurred since rains started on Thursday night. ...

US television network CBS says it is investigating reports detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by its top executive Les Moonves. The claims of unwanted kissing and touching have been published in the New Yorker magazine.   In a statement, CBS said it was looking into the allegations and would “take appropriate action”.   Mr Moonves, 68, told the magazine that ...

A group of Pakistani political parties on Friday announced protests demanding new elections following allegations of rigging in this week’s nationwide polls that were won by cricket hero Imran Khan’s party.   “We will run a movement for holding of elections again. There will be protests,” said Maulana Fazalur Rehman from the All Parties Conference, which included the outgoing ruling ...

Tokyo, Jul 27 : The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Chiyo Miyako died Sunday. Her death was confirmed Friday by Kanagawa prefecture, her home state south of Tokyo. Miyako, born on May 2, 1901, became the world’s oldest person in April after Nabi Tajima from Kikai island in southern Japan died at the age of 117. ...

Prime minister in-waiting Imran Khan was provided VVIP security protocol, meant for the head of government, on Thursday.   Senior police officers said he was given the protocol after the PTI won a majority in the National Assembly in the July 25 elections, as he would likely be the next prime minister.  In light of this, security measures were mounted ...