Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Putin says liberalism ‘eating itself,’ migrant influx wrong
OSAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin fired a new broadside against Western liberalism at the Group of 20 summit in Japan, saying that policies such as welcoming migrants have hurt people’s interests. Speaking after the summit in Osaka concluded on Saturday, Putin charged that Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential...
Putin uses G-20 to strengthen alliances, soothe tensions
OSAKA, Japan: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin used a series of talks with global leaders at the Group of 20 summit on Friday to strengthen old alliances and try to soothe tensions with rivals. Putin used his meetings with the leaders of China and India to find common ground on issues such as opposing protectionism, while his long-delayed...
German Chancellor Merkel suffers new trembling spell on eve of G20
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seen shaking as she met President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday, her second such bout within two weeks, but her spokesman said she was fine and she continued with her duties. The shaking went on for about two minutes, according to a DPA photographer who was present. Standing next to Steinmeier as...
Feisty Trump sets tone as stormy G20 looms
OSAKA: US President Donald Trump set the tone Thursday for what promises to be a stormy G20 summit by lashing out at friends and foes alike over trade tariffs and foreign policy. The long-running US-China trade war looked set to dominate the two-day meeting of world leaders in Osaka from Friday but clashes also loomed over climate and hotspots...
NATO calls on Russia to destroy new missile, warns of response
BRUSSELS: NATO urged Russia on Tuesday to destroy a new missile before an August deadline and save a treaty that keeps land-based nuclear warheads out of Europe or face a more determined alliance response in the region. NATO defense ministers will discuss on Wednesday their next steps if Moscow keeps the missile system that the United States says...
Uncertainties deepens about upcoming Trump, Putin meeting
NEW YORK: The shadow of Helsinki lingers. Uncertainties about Russia’s past and future election interference continue. And tensions are high over hot spots from Iran to Venezuela. When President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet this week on the sidelines of an international summit in Japan, it will mark a new chapter...
Airlines avoid parts of Iran-controlled airspace after U.S. regulator’s order
Some global airlines are re-routing flights to avoid Iran-controlled airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman, they said on Friday, after the U.S. aviation regulator barred its carriers from the area until further notice. Thursday’s emergency order from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) came after Iran shot down a...
Putin bans Russian flights to crisis-hit Georgia
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia, starting in July, after violent clashes in the neighbouring country over a Moscow lawmaker speaking in parliament in Tbilisi. “From July 8, 2019, Russian airlines are temporarily banned from undertaking flights from the territory of the...
Russians to prod Putin on poverty, personal life as ratings fall
MOSCOW: Russians are set to ask President Vladimir Putin about growing poverty at home and tensions abroad during an annual televised phone-in Thursday, which comes following a fall in his approval ratings. The leader is also likely to face a degree of grilling on his personal life, according to questions submitted by the public online ahead of...
Pakistan’s population to hit 403 million by 2050: UN
LAHORE: Pakistan’s population is expected to climb to 403 million by 2050, a United Nations (UN) report released Monday said. The earth’s population is expected to rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ “World Population Prospects” report....
