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Prince William The Duke of Cambridge is due to arrive in the region on June 25 to embark on a tour of Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. As part of that tour, the prince will visit the occupied Old City of Jerusalem. Kensington Palace has released a statement...

Melania Trump, the wife of US President Donald Trump, on Thursday visited children displaced by the country’s immigration crisis in Texas, only a day after Trump reversed course and ordered families to be kept intact when entering the United States illegally from Mexico. US first lady Melania Trump walks to...

SINGAPORE: Seven decades of antagonism and mistrust will shadow Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un as they sit down for their unprecedented summit in Singapore -- historical baggage that will weigh heavily on discussions over North Korea´s nuclear arsenal and how far Pyongyang is willing to go to meet US...

QINGDAO: President Mamnoon Hussain and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged pleasantries during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. President Mamnoon Hussain shakes hands with India´s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Reuters  The two leaders were photographed shaking hands after a press conference...

UNITED STATES:  U.S. President Donald Trump will host a dinner in the coming week in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, restoring a White House tradition that he had abandoned during his first year in office, a West Wing official said on Saturday. The dinner is expected to...

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump, in a complete reversal, said on Friday he would hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore in the latest twist in the high-stakes diplomacy over eliminating Pyongyang’s nuclear arms program. Eight days after canceling the unprecedented summit,...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the summit talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in Singapore will not take place as planned. Calling it a “missed opportunity” and “truly a sad moment in history”, Trump, in his letter to Kim, said it was inappropriate for the talks to take...

Florida police have released dramatic bodycam footage of their gun battle with a suspect at the Trump National Doral Golf Club Friday. Suspect Jonathan Oddi, 42, reportedly entered the lobby of the hotel and began shouting anti-Trump remarks before opening fire. Terrified patrons and employees of the hotel fled immediately....

MAKKAH: Part of a mobile crane being used for construction work at the Grand Mosque in Makkah toppled to the ground on Sunday. The driver of the crane was slightly injured in the incident, but no one else was hurt. The Makkah Governorate said the area of the Grand Mosque...

BEIJING: Washington and Beijing have agreed to abandon any trade war and back off from imposing tariffs on each other, Chinese state media reported Sunday. The announcement came after high-level talks in the US capital and followed months of tensions over what President Donald Trump has blasted as an unfair...

Makkah: For the first time ever, drones will be used to manage the crowd in Ramazan in Al-Haram Mosque, Saudi media reported. Saudi Gazette quoted Major General Mohammed Al-Ahmadi, the deputy commander of the Umrah forces, saying, this year's crowd management plan for Umrah involves security, organisational, and humanitarian aspects....

WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Cheering and waving British flags for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, crowds gathered outside the ancient walls of Windsor Castle on Saturday for a royal wedding that supporters hope will help recast the 1,000-year-old monarchy for the 21st century. Hours before the ceremony, Queen Elizabeth bestowed...