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Trump vows ‘new vetting’ to weed out Islamic radicals
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping new executive order Friday to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough new controls on travellers from seven Muslim countries.Making good on one of his most controversial campaign promises, and to the horror of human rights groups, Trump said he was making America safe from...
Trump vows ‘new vetting’ to weed out Islamic radicals
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping new executive order Friday to suspend refugee arrivals and impose tough new controls on travellers from seven Muslim countries.Making good on one of his most controversial campaign promises, and to the horror of human rights groups, Trump said he was making America safe from...
Trump says only in early stages of considering lifting sanctions on Russia
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is only in the early stages of considering whether to lift US sanctions on Russia, as British Prime Minister Theresa May, other foreign officials and lawmakers at home voiced concerns that such a move would be premature. With Trump expected to speak on Saturday with Russian President...
Putin and Trump likely to discuss Ukraine sanctions: White House aide
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are likely to discuss the sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine when the two leaders speak by telephone on Saturday, a senior White House aide said. Trump has said in the past that, as part of a rapprochement he is seeking with...
Nuclear ‘Doomsday Clock’ ticks closest to midnight in 64 years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Atomic scientists reset their symbolic Doomsday Clock to its closest time to midnight in 64 years on Thursday, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trumps election as U.S. president.The timepiece, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the...
Tajik women train to shoulder work men left behind
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Wearing blue overalls, trainee mechanic Marjona Abdulloeva carefully examines a car chassis at a government-run training centre in Tajikistan, an ex-Soviet republic hit hard by the recession in Russia. The 20-year-old hopes to be the first woman to earn a car mechanic’s diploma at the Dushanbe centre, as a growing...
The formal launch of Cold War 2.0
As President Trump learns the ropes, Pakistan must maintain constant vigilance On January 20th, President-elect Trump took oath and become President Trump. Although it is hard to predict the policy approach of the new president, his rhetoric and cabinet pick shed some light on the possible future. In my view, January 20th was the launch of a cold...
NTC imposes 19% anti-dumping duty on CRC for next 5 years
The National Tariff Commission (NTC) has imposed anti-dumping duties in the range of 13.17 percent to 19.04 percent following the final determination in Anti-Dumping investigations against dumped import of Cold Rolled Coils (CRC) originating from China and Ukraine. NTC had initiated an anti-dumping investigation in July 2015 at the behest of an...
Obama to Trump: Keep Russia sanctions separate from nuclear talks
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama urged President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to keep separate the issue of economic sanctions on Russia from the pursuit of talks to reduce nuclear stockpiles. Trump, who takes office on Friday after winning the Nov. 8 election, said in an interview with the Times of London published on Monday that he would...
Trump shakes postwar order, in blow to Europe
BRUSSELS: Europe must pull together or risk being sidelined as Donald Trump signals the end of a postwar transatlantic partnership credited with keeping the peace for the past 70 years, analysts and officials say. Fears about the US president-elect’s isolationist stance became a reality this week when Trump challenged basic assumptions...
