Trump admin plans steeper tariff on import of Chinese products
Washington: The Trump administration is considering to increase the proposed tariff of 10 per cent on import of Chinese products to 25 per cent, a top...
Israel reimposed blockade of fuel supplies to Gaza
JERUSALEM: Israel reimposed a blockade of fuel supplies to Gaza on Thursday in response to a resurgence of the flow of fire kites across the border, D...
More than 1,000 homes torched in California wildfires
Just a month into the budget year, the state has already spent more than one-quarter of its annual fire budget, at least $125 million, California Depa...
Actors Ajith and Goundamani visit Karunanidhi in Kauvery Hospital
The two actors visited the ailing chief separately and enquired about his health to DMK working President MK Stalin.The latest in line of actors to ca...
Netanyahu warns Iran over Red Sea waterway
Jerusalem: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran it would join military action to stop it blocking a key seaway after Yemen’s Irani...
US Senate passes massive defence authorization bill
Washington: The US Senate has passed a massive $716 billion defence authorization bill. The Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
Khan's party wants Modi, others at oath taking ceremony
Islamabad: A top leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf said yesterday that the party has asked the Foreign Office to apprise it on whether heads of s...
France's Parliament signs into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill
France's Parliament has signed into law a controversial asylum and immigration bill. The bill is designed to accelerate asylum procedures by cutt...
United States sanction 2 Turkish officials over detained American pastor
The United States sanctioned two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges.White Ho...
Hundreds of undocumented workers line up at immigration offices across UAE
Hundreds of undocumented workers lined up at the immigration offices across the UAE today as they sought to take advantage of the new amnesty scheme a...
FIR against Mamata Banerjee for remarks against draft Assam NRC
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BYJM), the youth wing of BJP has filed an FIR in Naharkatia police station at Assam's Dibrugarh, after the Trinamool Con...
Pakistan dismisses US concerns about IMF bail out and China
Pakistan on Wednesday dismissed US concerns that any new International Monetary Fund bailout for the South Asian nation would be used to repay Chinese...
UAE launches three-month visa amnesty programme for foreign workers
The UAE today launched a landmark three-month visa amnesty programme which will benefit hundreds of illegal foreign workers, including Indians, overst...
Syrian regime retakes Golan Heights frontier with Israel
The Syrian regime regained control of the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in seven years on Monday, after Daesh-li...
World's largest Four Points by Sheraton opens in Makkah
Four Points by Sheraton, a part of Marriott International, today announced the opening of a new hotel in Makkah, Saudi Arabia – the brand’s largest pr...
Capital, reserves of UAE banks hit $90bn in Q2
The aggregate capital and reserves of banks operating in the UAE increased by 4.4 per cent, reaching Dh330.2 billion ($90 billion) by the end of Q2 20...
Renault’s new electric car launched in Abu Dhabi
Al Masaood Automobiles, authorised distributor of Nissan, Infiniti and Renault in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and the Western Region, has launched Renault’s lat...
IMF hikes Saudi Arabia’s 2018 growth forecast
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised Saudi Arabia’s 2018 growth forecast to 1.9 per cent as against 1.7 per cent projected earlier on acco...
Swedish royal jewels stolen by thieves who fled by speedboat
Thieves stole priceless royal artifacts in a daring raid on a Swedish cathedral before escaping by speedboat, police said.The thieves made off with je...
Erdogan accuses US of ‘Zionist mentality’ in pastor’s case
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed his country would not give into threats from the US over the case of an Ame...
97 injured as Mexican plane crashes at airport
Durango: An Aeromexico flight crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames and injuring 97 people, o...
Trump threatens govt shutdown
Washington : President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened a government shutdown if the US Congress refuses to back major changes to immigration polici...
Road accident in Iran leaves 3 Azerbaijani citizens dead
On July 31, a traffic accident involving two cars on the Parsabad-Jafarabad highway in Iran's northern province of Ardabil left three Azerbaijani citi...
Indian man wins $1 million lottery in UAE; another bags a BMW car
An Indian man on Tuesday hit a jackpot to become the latest winner of the $ 1 million Dubai Duty Free raffle, according to a media report. Kuwait-base...
Nawaz Sharif shifted back to Adiala Jail from hospital
Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was shifted back to Adiala Jail from a hospital today following improvement in his health. S...
US declares 3 Pakistan based Lashkar e-Taiba members as Special Designated Global Terrorists
The US today designated LeT commander Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil and the Pakistan-based terror group's two financial facilitators - Hameed-ul Hassan and A...
Toshiba Memory starts work on semiconductor facility
Toshiba Memory Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, recently held a ground-breaking ceremony for the first semiconductor fabrication facil...
Etisalat Digital announces challenges for DFA
Etisalat Digital has announced its new set of challenges for the 5th cohort of Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) focusing on creating smart innovative s...
Engineering giant WSP buys rival Louis Berger for $400m
Global engineering giant WSP said it is set to acquire leading US professional services consultancy Louis Berger in a deal worth $400 million.With thi...
Affordable housing 'to boost Riyadh’s property market'
Although market conditions in Saudi capital Riyadh remain relatively unchanged this quarter, the government's continued focus on providing affordable ...
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