BEIRUT: Lebanon will host the 2019 Arab League Summit, Prime Minister Saad Hariri told Cabinet officials Thursday. Hariri left Lebanon for Paris following the Cabinet session, an airport source told The Daily Star. Sources close to Hariri said that his visit to Paris was “a personal trip.” In the spirit ... Read More »
President will not now open new US embassy next month, with secretary of state Rex Tillerson likely to take his place Donald Trump has cancelled a visit to Britain next month to open the new US embassy in London amid fears of mass protests. The American president claimed on Twitter ... Read More »
By 2050 the total number is projected to reach 8.1 million. Muslims are expected to become America’s second largest religious group by the year 2040, a new estimates has suggested. The Pew Research Center said there are currently 3.45 million Muslims in the US, which is approximately 1.1 per cent of the ... Read More »
Senators say Trump has ignored threat to security and have called for new sanctions Senate Democrats accused President Donald Trump of failing to address the rising threat posed by Russian meddling in western democracies, calling on Wednesday for new sanctions and a US-led global response. “Never before has a US ... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in San Francisco temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a program shielding young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation. The Trump administration announced in September it would rescind Deferred Action for Childhood ... Read More »
Iran’s top nuclear official said Monday that his country might rethink its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency if President Trump scrapped American participation in the 2015 agreement limiting Iranian nuclear activities. The warning, from Ali Akbar Salehi, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of ... Read More »
BEIJING: An Iranian oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast is at risk of exploding and sinking, Chinese state media reported Monday as authorities from three countries struggled to find its 32 missing crew members and contain oil spewing from the blazing ... Read More »
SEOUL – North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s offer for dialogue, just hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a joint military exercise. The South’s unification ministry said North Korea ... Read More »
US President Donald Trump, whose controversial decision last month to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital prompted global condemnation and widespread protests, has threatened to cut off aid to Palestinians. Trump said in a pair of Twitter posts on Tuesday that “we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ... Read More »
Two-hour outage for passport processing on Monday evening not thought to be malicious, authorities say Immigration desk computers at various US airports went down for about two hours on Monday, causing long lines for travellers entering the United States, according to Customs and Border Protection and posts on social ... Read More »
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