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Imran Khan set to meet Donald Trump in New York

8:42 pm September 23, 2019

New York: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet Donald Trump here on Monday, a day after the high-profile “Howdy, Modi!” rally in Houston in which the US president and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a stage and showered each other with praise. Prime Minister Khan, who has declared himself an ambassador of Kashmiris, […]

Johnson says he’ll tell Trump: Hands off UK health service

3:09 pm September 23, 2019

New York: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he’ll tell US President Donald Trump that the UK’s state-funded health service will be off the table in any future trade negotiations. The Conservative prime minister also says the US will have to open its markets to British goods if it wants to make a deal. Johnson […]

EU’s Juncker says not too late for Brexit deal

7:56 pm September 22, 2019

Madrid: There is still time for London and Brussels to make a Brexit deal, outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published Sunday, as the clock runs down to a October 31 deadline. Juncker also told the Spanish daily El Pais that he wished the Commission had played a more active role in […]

UK prime minister Boris Johnson mulls early election over Brexit impasse

UK top court aims to rule next week on Parliament shutdown

9:16 pm September 19, 2019

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused by one of the country’s former leaders of obstructing Parliament by shutting down the legislature for five weeks, as a landmark Brexit case at the U.K. Supreme Court came to a head on Thursday. Meanwhile, the European Union and Britain announced new talks on an elusive divorce […]

Rights group says Bolsonaro gives ‘green light’ to Amazon illegal loggers

9:15 am September 18, 2019

Sao Paulo: Human Rights Watch has accused Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro of giving a “green light” to illegal loggers to destroy the Amazon and failing to protect those defending the world’s largest rain forest. Bolsonaro, whose anti-environment rhetoric and policies have been widely blamed for a spike in fires and land clearing in the Amazon this […]