Author: Wed, 2019-08-21 21:27 PARIS: France’s president said on Wednesday he would meet Iranian officials ahead of this weekend’s G7 summit and make proposals to help de-escalate tensions between Washington and Tehran. “In the coming hours before the G7 I … read more
Author: Wed, 2019-08-21 20:48 LAMPEDUSA, Italy: Eighty-three migrants who disembarked on Italy’s Lampedusa island were again in limbo on Wednesday as a European deal to redistribute them failed to materialize and Madrid said it could hit the Spanish charity with … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1566332654773372600 Tue, 2019-08-20 20:20 CAIRO: The United Nations has postponed a conference in Cairo on torture that was to take place in September following criticism from rights groups that say torture is rampant in Egypt. “We are … read more
Tue, 2019-08-20 22:39 DUBAI: On the face of it, the idea of tugging an iceberg from Antarctica to replenish the UAE’s freshwater supplies might sound sensational. Abdulla Alshehi, the Emirati businessman who was the subject of recent media reports about … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1566328536543151100 Tue, 2019-08-20 17:04 WASHINGTON: The US special envoy will travel to Qatar and Afghanistan on Tuesday to resume peace talks with the Taliban and the Afghan government, the State Department said, as the United States seeks … read more