First Trump-Kim meeting scheduled for June 12
AFP | The White House said on Monday that the first meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take...
The emergency destruction of American liberty
JACOB G. HORNBERGER | Emergencies are the time-honoured method by which people lose their freedom. That’s because public officials use emergencies as a way to...
Jordanian protests: Revisiting the Arab Spring and setting a benchmark
James M Dorsey | Protests that forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign and laid bare the country’s systemic economic and political crisis shed a new...
G7 ministers criticize US tariffs and warn of trade war
News Analysis | Last week, Trump was told that the U.S. was playing a ‘dangerous game by slapping tariffs on European steel and aluminum. Therefore,...
2018 World Cup potentially set to become latest Middle Eastern battlefield
James M Dorsey | A possible Saudi-Iranian clash on the soccer pitch promises to be a highlight of this month’s World Cup in Russia. It...
Forget it, general election will be delayed: CJP
News Desk | Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar has remarked election will not be allowed to be delayed at any cost. CJP further...
Two killed as activists clash with militants in Pakistan tribal area
AFP | A clash between Pashtun activists and local militants on Sunday killed two people and wounded 25 others in a restive Pakistani tribal region...
Trump ‘could pardon himself over Russia but won’t’, says Giuliani
News Desk | Donald Trump probably has the power to pardon himself in the Russia collusion affair but does not intend to do so, his...
Social media outrage forces PTI to expel Farooq Bandial after he was outed as Shabnam’s rapist
News Desk | As the MeToo and TimesUp movements establish their foothold in politics worldwide, a politician from Punjab, who was convicted of raping film...
Trump says: Summit with Kim is back on
News Desk | US President Donald Trump's summit, with Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12, is back on, the US president says a week...
Netanyahu heads to Europe seeking about-face on Iran
AFP | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarks Monday on a three-day European tour in Germany set to be dominated by strategic differences on Iran,...
Hollywood biopic on UAE’s Sheikh Zayed to release soon
News Desk | A Hollywood film production company STX is set to produce the first biopic movie on the founding father of Dubai, Sheikh Zayed...