*BEIJING: * China will deliver "a proper and necessary" response to new curbs by the State Department on its envoys to the United States, the foreign ministry said Thursday. America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo introduced the restrictions on Wednesday, including mandating Chinese diplomats to ...

ISLAMABAD- In Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), the authorities have further tightened restrictions in Srinagar city’s commercial hub of Lal Chowk and adjoining areas to disallow Muharram processions on Friday. The curbs were imposed in areas falling under eight police ...

ISLAMABAD-In occupied Kashmir, dozens of journalists staged a protest demonstration in Srinagar against crippling restrictions, imposed by India on Kashmiri journalist fraternity in the name of new media policy. The journalists gathered outside Press Club in Srinagar and shouted slogans against ...

ISLAMABAD-China threatened Tuesday to retaliate against new US restrictions on Chinese state media, escalating tensions between the two superpowers as they crack down on each other's news outlets. China has already expelled more than a dozen American journalists as part of the row. On Tuesday ...

Turkey plans to send a fourth ship to waters off Cyprus to search for gas and oil despite European Union moves to curb contacts and funding for Ankara over the issue. Turkish Foreign Ministry said today (Tuesday) that the decisions will not affect in the slightest our country’s determination ...

TEHRAN: Iran said it will further free itself from the 2015 nuclear deal in defiance of new American sanctions as US President Donald Trump warned the Islamic republic of “overwhelming” retaliation for any attacks. Tensions between Iran and the US have spiralled since last year when ...

ISLAMABAD: The Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Indian Occupied Kashmir has denounced the occupation authorities for placing the Mirwaiz under house arrest and imposing curfew across downtown, Srinagar, to prevent a march towards the Martyrs’ Graveyard at Eidgah in the city on ...

In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has denounced the arrest spree by India’s National Investigative Agency and curbs on political expression in the territory. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar said that curbs, arrests and other ...

In Myanmar, hundreds of people have marched through Yangon to oppose changes to a protest law limiting free speech. Nearly 190 Myanmar civil society groups have signed a petition against the amendment. Amendments to the 2011 Law will bring three-year prison terms for supporting a demonstration that ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States, (APP/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Thursday that China's central bank has ordered the country's banks to curb trade with North Korea, as he announced new US sanctions against the Pyongyang regime. The Chinese move, which Trump described as "very bold" and ...