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TAIPEI:Police said they have stepped up patrols at Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan’s busiest, in response to a bomb threat directed at the planned arrival of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the island. A threat was sent Tuesday to Taoyuan Airport,...
WASHINGTON: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist group, outlawed in Russia, was killed in a US special operation on July 31, a high-ranking US administration official said. "At <…> 6:18 am Kabul time on July 31, the United States undertook...
WASHINGTON: Former President Trump leads President Biden and Vice President Harris in hypothetical 2024 presidential match-ups, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday. The poll found that if the 2024...
MOSCOW: The Russian president pointed out that western politicians who imposed sanctions against Russia simply "threw away" the principles of the WTO Anti-Russian sanctions do not reflect the realities of global politics and the economy, Russian President...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces erected concrete barriers as panic took hold of the Iraqi street Monday ahead of counter-protests planned by Shiite political rivals that many feared could escalate to civil strife. Calls for the counter-protest came from...
LONDON: Prince Charles accepted a $1.7 million donation to his charitable trust from the family of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, the UK's Sunday Times has reported. Although there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by the Saudi family members, the...
MOSCOW: The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the decision of the unrecognized Kosovo from August 1 to apply the rules on the forced replacement of Serbs' personal documents as a step towards their expulsion...
MOSCOW: The US course towards dominance in the World Ocean and NATO’s mounting activity are major security threats to Russia, as follows from the new Maritime Doctrine approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday. The new document was posted...
KYIV: Ukrainian shelling caused blackouts in two coal mines in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on Sunday, leaving at least 70 miners trapped underground, the DPR coal ministry said. "As a result of yet another shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants...
Wilmington: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has countersued Twitter on Friday, escalating his legal fight against the social media giant over his bid to walk away from the USD 44 billion purchase deal. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the lawsuit was...
WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed a new round of Russia-related sanctions on two individuals and four entities, the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Friday. "Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office...
WASHINGTON: The United States has charged Russian national Alexander Ionov, the founder and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, with conspiring to have US citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government, the Justice Department...