International News

Saudi, US sign deals ‘in excess of $380 bln’: Saudi FM

  • RIYADH, May 20, (APP/AFP) – Agreements worth more than $380 billion have been signed between Riyadh and Washington on the first day of US President Donald Trump’s visit, the Saudi foreign minister said on Saturday. “The two countries signed a series of agreements,” Adel al-Jubeir told reporters at a joint press conference with US Secretary […]

  • Iran hands over 82 deportees to Pakistan

    NUSHKI, May 20 (APP): Iranian security force handed over 82 Pakistani nationals to Levies force on Pak-Iran border in Taftan area of Chaghi district on Saturday. According to Levies sources, these Pakistani workers were apprehended from different area of Iran because they were living there without traveling documents. They would be handed over to Federal […]

  • Hillary’s top aide Huma Abedin files for divorce from disgraced husband

    NEW YORK, May 20 (APP): Huma Abedin, who was a top campaign aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, has finally filed for divorce from the disgraced former New York congressman, Anthony Weiner, on the same day he plead guilty to charges of sexting a minor. Abedin, 40, a Michigan-born Muslim-American raised in […]

  • Turkey Kurd party elects fill-in for jailed leader

    ANKARA, May 20, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) replaced its jailed female co-leader Saturday as the party seeks to move forward while its MPs and officials remain imprisoned, accused of links to Kurdish separatists. Serpil Kemalbay was elected by delegates who convened for a special congress in the capital Ankara, where there […]

  • Saudi, US sign deals ‘in excess of $380 billion’: Saudi FM

    RIYADH, May 20, (APP/AFP) – Agreements worth more than $380 billion have been signed between Riyadh and Washington on the first day of US President Donald Trump’s visit, the Saudi foreign minister said on Saturday. “The two countries signed a series of agreements,” Adel al-Jubeir told reporters at a joint press conference with US Secretary […]

  • Qantas A380 turns back to LA after engine fails

    SYDNEY, May 21 (APP/AFP) – A Qantas A380 ferrying hundreds of passengers from Los Angeles to Melbourne has been forced to turn back after an engine failure, the airline said Sunday. The QF94 service was two hours into its trip on Friday evening when the pilot was forced to abort the flight, with passengers saying […]