International

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 ...

Pakistan’s Election Commission on Friday declared former cricket star Imran Khan’s party the winner of Pakistan’s historic third consecutive election of a civilian government, but he didn’t win an outright majority and must form a coalition. After two days of tediously slow vote counting, Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 114 of 269 seats in the National Assembly with his nearest ...

Donald Trump has been at frequent loggerheads with CNN since taking office, but their feud has become increasingly bitter as the channel’s acerbic White House coverage fuels a boom in viewers.   From reportedly raging that CNN was on the first lady’s television set, to refusing to take questions from the network, to the White House barring one of its ...

The Trump administration says it has reunited more than 1,800 migrant children with family members by a court-ordered deadline. This includes 1,442 children back with their parents in US immigration custody and 378 others released in “appropriate circumstances”, says a court filing.   But more than 700 children are not “eligible” to be reunited, including 431 with parents no longer ...