ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman is due to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday at the start of his tour of South Asia and China, but the visit risks being overshadowed by escalating tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan ...Islamabad denies playing a role and has called for an investigation ... ....
A man has been airlifted to the hospital after being bitten by a shark off the coast of New South Wales in Australia, according to local police. Police said in a statement Sunday that emergency services were called to Byron Bay around 6.40 a.m. local time, after reports that a man surfing near Belongil Beach was bitten on the leg by a shark ... ....
WARSAW, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minister has cancelled a trip to Israel in the wake of reported remarks made by Israel's prime minister suggesting Polish complicity during the Holocaust, an aide in his office told Polish media on Sunday ... The summit of four central and Eastern European countries is set to be held in Jerusalem this week ... ....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s PresidentHassan Rouhani has unveiled the first Iranian made semi-heavy submarine ...Insight by GitLab ... ....
The UAE Armed Forces awarded Dh4.97 billion in contracts on the first day of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (Idex), with the lion’s share of deals going to international companies. The Armed Forces, which signed 33 contracts in total, awarded International companies contracts worth Dh3.87bn ... Read More. •Idex 2019 ... Updated ... SHARE. ....
SAO PAULO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Around 200 residents were evacuated from an area near a tailings dam in Brazil operated by Vale SA late on Saturday, amid fears that it was structurally weak and could burst like a similar barrier failure last month that killed 300 people ... ....
Jim Carrey came out swinging at Donald Trump with his latest political cartoon. Actor-artist Carrey took a shot at Trump Saturday, gifting fans with a cartoon reflecting on Trump’s recent decision to declare a national emergency in an effort to build a wall along the U.S. border, and the president’s fondness for hitting the links....
World No 1 NaomiOsaka says she has been hurt by suggestions her surprise split with coach Sascha Bajin was motivated by money. The Japanese star made the shock announcement last week, coming only weeks after she sealed a second successive grand slam title by defeating Petra Kvitova in the Australian Open final ... Read More ... • Federer, Halep and Osaka ... ....
Lawyers representing Empire star Jussie Smollett have said he is "angered and devastated" by claims that the alleged racist and homophobic attack on the actor in Chicago was staged, adding that "nothing is further from the truth" ... In a statement, Smollett's legal team later said ... ....
DUBAI. Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbours to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of US and Israeli aggression, PresidentHassan Rouhani said on Sunday, in his latest attempt to weaken ties between regional rival Saudi Arabia and America... Saudi Arabia welcomed the move ... Iran has never started any aggression in the region." ... ....
Members of the SyrianDemocratic Forces rest during an operation to expel Islamic State group jihadists from their last bastion in eastern Syria. Diehard jihadists have blocked roads out of the last scrap of their Islamic State group "caliphate" in Syria, US-backed forces fighting them said Sunday, preventing hundreds of civilians from fleeing ... ....
French police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who threw projectiles and set bins on fire in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux on Saturday, as the 14th straight weekend of "yellow vest" protests took a violent turn in the afternoon ... The ministry's estimate in Paris was 4,000 protesters, compared with 5,000 last week. ....