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NEW YORK – China on Thursday slammed the United States for its criticism of the novel coronavirus, with Beijing’s envoy to a high-level United Nations meeting saying: “Enough is enough!” Two days after US President Donald Trump used his annual address to the UN General Assembly to attack China’s record, …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday made a passionate appeal to the international community to take decisive action and work to stop white-collar criminals from “bleeding” developing countries dry. In a speech to the United Nations International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity (FACTI), Pakistani Prime Minister Imran …

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia was elected in place of Iran to lead the central committee of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during its 64th session which is currently being held in Vienna. Seventy out of 112 countries voted for Saudi Arabia, while 37 abstained. Differences …

TEHRAN – Advanced crewless aerial vehicles operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) managed to capture surprisingly close footage of an American strike group, led by USS Nimitz, just before it passed through the Gulf Persian across the Strait of Hormuz. The video was released on Thursday by IRGC-affiliated …

ANKARA – The head of a significant trade association in Turkey praised the country’s central bank for its recent measures, in particular, its interest rate hike on Thursday, calling for measures to “ensure full market confidence”. Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD) President Simone Kaslowski told a video conference that …

GENEVA – World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the primary health organization had no guarantees whether a single Covid-19 vaccine currently in development would work. In a virtual press conference, the WHO chief said: “We have no guarantee that a single vaccine currently in development will work.” …

JEDDAH: – Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince, Turki al-Faisal, has said US President Donald Trump is not an honest broker between the Arab world and Israel. Speaking to US business news channel CNBC on Wednesday night from Jeddah, Faisal said his father, King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, was “disappointed” by …

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 3 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and has said he expects the electoral battle to end before the Supreme Court. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Current Account (CAB) balance turned into a surplus for the second consecutive month in August 2020, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) revealed in its latest data on Wednesday. According to SBP, the CAB surplus was driven by impressive growth in workers’ remittances and a drop in …

NEW DELHI – Former Chief Minister of Occupied India Kashmir (IoK) Farooq Abdullah, in a passionate interview with an Indian publication, said that at present, the citizens of occupied Jammu and Kashmir by India would instead be ruled by China than part of India. Jammu and Kashmir’s most prominent “pro-India” …