Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
China expands nuclear facility to Pakistan, other countries
BEIJING: China General Nuclear Power Group is building two Hualong One nuclear station in Karachi and will build another one in Argentina starting in 2020. This is the part of the world’s first AP1000 third-generation nuclear unit started fueling in east China’s Zhejiang Province, a much-awaited landmark in China’s actualisation...
New Secretary of State Pompeo arrives in Brussels to meet NATO allies
BRUSSELS: A day after being sworn in as the new US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo landed in Brussels for talks with key allies in Europe on heightened Russian aggression and ways to strengthen the NATO military alliance. Pompeo, a former Army officer who was a Republican congressman, is regarded as a loyal supporter of US President Donald Trump...
Salah shines again as Liverpool beat Roma 5-2
LIVERPOOL: Inspired by two-goal Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Liverpool took a big step towards the Champions League final with a 5-2 win over AS Roma in their semi-final, first leg at Anfield on Tuesday. Two late Roma goals, however, will give the Italians, who came back from 4-1 down to beat Barcelona in the previous round, some hope of an upset in...
China’s first home-built aircraft carrier looks set to start sea trials
BEIJING: China first domestically developed aircraft carrier looks set to begin sea trials after pictures appeared on the Chinese internet on Monday of it leaving its dock in the northeastern port of Dalian. The still-unnamed carrier was launched this time last year but since then has been undergoing fitting of weapons and other systems and has...
German minister urges Russia to cooperate in solving Syria crisis
BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Saturday urged Russia to help solve the Syria crisis as he set off for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations in Toronto. The Syrian conflict has badly damaged already strained relations between the West and Russia, which backs President Bashar...
Watch: Russia’s latest weapons for future ‘new’ cold war
MOSCOW: Tensions between Moscow and the West have reached their highest point since the end of the Cold War due to the war in Syria, Russian annexation of Crimea, Salisbury attack in the UK and alleged Russian interference in the US Presidential elections of 2016. Analysts in the West have described Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war...
A cornered Trump
And a desperate Israel What’s new about America’s attack in Syria, its aftermath and the reaction it has received globally? America has spread its laser-guided democracy and humanitarian missions since long now, so that’s definitely not new. In its self-appointed role of moral policing of the world, America has never cared for...
Top Russian, NATO generals hold rare face-to-face meeting
MOSCOW: The head of Russia’s military general staff and NATO’s supreme allied commander held a rare face-to-face meeting on Thursday to try to ease the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War. US Army General Curtis Scaparrotti and Valery Gerasimov met in Baku, Azerbaijan, less than a week after the United States, Britain and...
Trump’s former campaign chief Manafort to seek dismissal of charges
WASHINGTON DC: Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, will try on Thursday to convince a judge to throw out charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, arguing Mueller has overstepped his authority. Manafort, hit with two indictments accusing him of conspiracy against the United States and other crimes,...
EU threatens new Syrian sanctions but no clear Russian target
LUXEMBOURG: European Union foreign ministers threatened on Monday new sanctions on Syria over what the West says were chemical attacks on its own people, but held off from joining expected new US punitive measures against Russia. After Britain and France joined the United States in missile salvoes meant to knock out Syrian chemical arms...
