ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday hailed as “strategic” President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution from Congress directing him to end US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. “President Trump’s assertion of support to the Arab Coalition in Yemen is a positive signal of US resolve
BARCELONA: Rescue charity ship Open Arms received the green light to set sail from the port of Barcelona on Wednesday but will not be allowed to return to the central Mediterranean to save migrants. Spanish authorities in mid-January denied permission for the ship to leave Barcelona, arguing Spain has no
ATHENS: Greece’s parliament on Wednesday began debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin. “These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece,” parliament chairman Nikos Voutsis told reporters this week. The chamber is expected to
MOSCOW: Russian veterans want to ban a film about Soviet troops in Afghanistan they say is “unpatriotic,” while the director insists it is an honest account of a disastrous conflict. “Brotherhood” is distributed by the local arm of Walt Disney and is sharply different in tone from recent patriotic war
OTTAWA: Canada’s opposition conservatives won a clear victory in provincial elections in oil-rich Alberta Tuesday, in a setback for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his environmental policies just six months ahead of national polls. The United Conservative Party won a large majority in the legislature, with its Jason Kenney set
BEIJING: A Chinese health activist has been detained for more than a month, her husband said Wednesday, after she participated in a protest over faulty vaccines – a re-occurring issue in China. According to police documents posted online by Li Xin, his wife He Fangmei is under “criminal detention” at
NEW DELHI: Indian election authorities have cancelled voting in a southern region of the country after seizing more than 110 million rupees they believe was meant to influence the outcome, officials said Wednesday. It is the first time a ballot has been cancelled in a national election over attempted vote-buying,
LONDON: One of the architects who helped restore Windsor Castle after a devastating fire said a shortage of craftsmen could hold up the reconstruction of Notre-Dame. “The supply of craftsmen with the skill to work so much stone, so much timber, so much lead, so much glass for the windows
A secluded mountain region thought to be free of plastic pollution is in fact blanketed by airborne microplastics on a scale comparable to a major city such as Paris, alarmed researchers reported Monday. Over a five-month period in 2017-2018, an average of 365 tiny bits of plastic settled every day
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday officially opened a massive wind farm in the Baltic Sea, calling it a project of “national significance” for Germany’s “energy transition” towards renewables. Here are three things to know about the Arkona wind park. Baltic’s largest wind park Arkona’s 60 turbines tower out of the
