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BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday pointed out that his three meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan over the past eight months fully reflected the high level of China-Pakistan all-weather strategic partnership and said that both countries should carry out closer coordination and cooperation under the changing regional and …

WASHINGTON: A hawkish Republican senator has suggested that the United States should take military action against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro so countries opposing the US are intimidated and surrender to Washington’s demands. To handle foreign conflicts “we need points on the board,” Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a close ally …

WASHINGTON: The United States has warned Israel, a staunch ally in the Middle East, against deepening business ties with China, citing “security implications.” In its latest military budget bill, the Senate warned Israel not to allow China to run the port of Haifa, a long-time docking point for the US …

BERLIN: Video footage released by the US military to blame Iran for the recent attacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman has been disputed even by Washington’s allies and Western analysts. Less than a day after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) released the video late Thursday purportedly …

MOSCOW: Russia said on Tuesday it plans to deliver its S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey in July, setting the clock ticking on a U.S. threat to hit Ankara with sanctions if it goes ahead with a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies. Turkey and the United …

LONDON: Members of the British parliament have rejected a key move by the opposition Labour Party meant to block a potential disorderly withdrawal from the European Union. In a Wednesday session of the House of Commons, lawmakers voted 309 to 298 against Labour’s measure which sought to seize control of …

LONDON: MQM founder Altaf Hussain — who went into exile in the early 1990s — was arrested in London on Tuesday. “A man has today, Tuesday, 11 June, been arrested in connection with an investigation into a number of speeches made by an individual associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement …

  LONDON: Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson recommended that the UK allow Saudi Arabia to buy British bomb parts expected to be deployed in Yemen, days after an airstrike on a potato factory in the country had killed 14 people in 2016.Campaigners accused the then foreign secretary of showing a …

WASHINGTON DC: The US envoy on religious liberty has said he is “disappointed” at the response of governments in the Islamic world to China’s mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims, suggesting they had been threatened by Beijing. Sam Brownback, ambassador at large for international religious freedom, said some majority-Muslim states did …