WASHINGTON (AFP/Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump hailed his “great friendship” with Xi Jinping on Thursday as he gave the Chinese leader a lavish welcome to the White House for a historic state visit.“President Xi and I have forged a friendship — a truly great friendship, actually — built […]
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LWASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington on Wednesday for a three-day visit that will test relations between the superpowers as tensions simmer over trade, technology, Taiwan and Iran.Xi’s first trip to the US in nearly three years was not expected to deliver […]
NEW YORK UNS- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused the United States and Israel of waging war against Iran and targeting civilians, as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. At the beginning of his speech, Pezeshkian displayed images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and children killed in a US strike […]
By Qamar Bashir Press Secretary to the President (Rtd) Former Press Minister, Embassy of Pakistan to France Former Press Attaché to Malaysia Former MD, SRBC | Michigan, USA Trump’s UN address and the international rejection surrounding Netanyahu exposed a world increasingly divided between the rule of law and the unrestrained exercise of power. The United Nations was created after the Second World War to restrain power through law, replace war with diplomacy and give sovereign countries a voice. President Donald Trump’s address to the 81st General Assembly on September 22, 2026, presented a different conception of international order—one in which military dominance, economic control and national power appeared to take precedence over multilateral accountability. Trump again credited himself with settling eight wars. Fact checkers found the claim exaggerated: several cases involved temporary ceasefires, while at least two were not wars during his presidency. The continuing US–Iran conflict further complicated his peacemaking claim. His assertion of […]
NEW YORK -UNS: US President Donald Trump gave Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a special mention during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, calling him a “terrific man” while again claiming a role in ending the 2025 military conflict between Pakistan and India. Trump also described Pakistan […]
WASHINGTON -UNS: The United States plans to reopen a former Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland and establish a military presence at an eastern outpost currently used by Denmark’s Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, according to three people familiar with the matter. The proposed agreement between the United States, Denmark […]
MOSCOW- AFP:Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party won a large majority in the country’s parliamentary elections, marked by cyberattacks and a barrage of Ukrainian drone strikes, according to results published by state media early Monday. The election, held to elect members in all seats of the lower house State Duma, […]
Riyadh’s withdrawal from the China-led digital payments project has revived questions over the Kingdom’s strategic balancing between Beijing and Washington.
Pakistan says militant hideouts were targeted; Taliban authorities report three civilian deaths
WASHINGTON- UNS:The US State Department has introducesd new travel restrictions for its personnel in Saudi Arabia, requiring prior authorisation for both official and personal travel to the cities of Taif and Yanbu. In an update issued by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the department said the measures were prompted by […]