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Pakistan’s UN envoy call British PM Boris Johnson ‘Foreign Minister’

5:38 am September 24, 2019

United Nations: In a major goof-up, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Monday called British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “Foreign Minister” on Twitter. “Prime Minister Imran Khan met British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson this morning,” Lodhi tweeted as she put out a picture of the meeting. She deleted the tweet after around […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Russia joins Paris climate accord

5:22 am September 24, 2019

Moscow: Russia’s prime minister on Monday gave formal support to the Paris climate agreement, just hours ahead of a key summit trying to tackle ever increasing gas emissions. The document signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia is formally accepting the 2015 Paris agreement and will now “allocate financial resources… to developing countries […]

President Donald Trump says US troops ‘largely out’ of Syria region

Trump complains he deserves Nobel peace prize

5:10 am September 24, 2019

United Nations: US President Donald Trump aired one of his oldest grievances at the United Nations on Monday: that it’s unfair he never got the Nobel peace prize. “I would get a Nobel prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don’t,” he complained. Trump went on to raise […]

No breakthrough as EU’s Tusk, Britain’s Johnson meet in New York

5:03 am September 24, 2019

United Nations (US): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated a call for “flexibility” from the EU in Brexit talks during a meeting with Council President Donald Tusk in New York on Monday that failed to yield a breakthrough. Johnson and Tusk met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly as Britain races towards its […]

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, […]