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Abe and Trump spoke by telephone a day after American and North Korean officials met at a border truce village to prepare for the summit. (Photo: AFP)World
Donald Trump, Shinzo Abe say 'imperative' to dismantle North Korean...

Trump said the summit could go ahead as planned following a more appeasing statement from Pyongyang and productive talks...

29 May 2018 8:59 AM IST

A.S. Dulat and Asad DurraniWorld
Ex-ISI chief barred from leaving Pakistan

Gen. Durrani has expressed dismay at his own people after facing a severe backlash over his recent book that landed...

29 May 2018 6:39 AM IST

US President Donald Trump with Chinas President Xi Jinping in Beijing, in October 2017. (Photo: AFP)World
Are we living in a multipolar world?

Referring to the threat of a Sino-US trade war, Paul Tucker, author of Unelected Power, opines that both Mr Trump and Mr...

29 May 2018 1:13 AM IST

The eldest daughter of President Donald Trump, who serves as an advisor to her father, posted the picture of her with her infant son on Sunday, with the caption: \MyWorld
Photo of Ivanka Trump cuddling son faces backlash amid migration woes

The outrage is growing over a federal government policy to separate the children of undocumented migrants from their...

28 May 2018 5:35 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi addresses the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: AP)World
Pak PM rejects opposition protest over Gilgit-Baltistan control order

India summoned Pak's Dy High Commissioner, lodged protest saying action to forcibly alter status of any part of the...

28 May 2018 4:06 PM IST

The job of the caretaker prime minister is to keep the country running between the dissolution of parliament and the new government being sworn in. (Photo: AFP)World
Ex-chief justice Nasir Mulk appointed as Pak's caretaker prime...

The announcement came after weeks of deadlock between PML-N, opposition over name of caretaker prime minister.

28 May 2018 3:32 PM IST

Most Rohingya refugees in the Bangladeshi camps also say they will not return to a state where their villages have been torched and where they allege atrocities by the army and ethnic Rakhine locals. (Photo: AFP)World
Rohingyas in Bangladesh afraid as monsoon poses serious threat to...

'Our families would be killed. We constantly fear that rain could trigger a landslide,' says 53-yr-old Rohingya Muslim...

28 May 2018 2:17 PM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures after delivering a televised speech in Tehran. (Photo: AP)World
Amid doubts on nuclear deal, China to host Iranian President Hassan...

Rouhani will pay working visit to China, attend summit of China, Russia-led security bloc, Shanghai Cooperation...

28 May 2018 1:24 PM IST

I did it because it was a child, the paper quoted Gassama saying. I climbed... Thank God I saved him. (Photo: Screengrab | YouTube video)World
Real-life 'spiderman' scales building to save child dangling from...

Mamoudou Gassama, a migrant from Mali, is being praised after he scaled a building to rescue a 4-yr-old dangling from a...

28 May 2018 12:36 PM IST

The 41st president was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Sunday morning, the day after the memorial service for Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years. (Photo: AP)World
Former American President George H W Bush hospitalised in Maine

Spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted just after 2 pm on May 27 that Bush will likely remain in hospital for few days.

28 May 2018 12:17 PM IST

Since the Winter Olympics in the South, Pyongyang and Washington have agreed to the unprecedented Singapore meeting. A woman walks by a huge screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Photo | AP)World
US team in North Korea to plan summit with Kim Jong Un: Donald Trump

Trump withdrew from planned June 12 Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un last Thursday, but quickly announced that it could...

28 May 2018 9:20 AM IST

Pakistan and India flag (Representational image)World
Forced to test nukes in 1998 due to 'hostile posturing' by India:...

India conducted a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions at the Pokhran in May, 1998, which was soon followed by...

28 May 2018 8:28 AM IST

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