BRASILIA: Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline, was sworn in as Brazil’s president on Tuesday. The former Army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to became Brazil’s first far-right president since a military dictatorship gave way …

BERLIN: A man injured four people in Germany after driving into a group celebrating the New Year, in what police described on Tuesday as an anti-migrant attack. “The authorities think that this is a targeted attack, motivated by the driver’s hostility to foreigners,” said the Essen prosecutors office and Muenster police. They also said they thought the 50-year-old suspect has …

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s first tweet of 2019 is a happy New Year message for all, unlike 2018 when he targeted Pakistan in his first tweet. But even his New Year message was not free of derision and mockery that Mr Trump often uses in his tweets. “Happy New Year to everyone, including the haters and the fake news media,” he …

WASHINGTON: US Strategic Command apologised on Monday for a joke in “bad taste” after tweeting it was ready to drop something “much bigger” than the traditional Times Square crystal ball at New Year. In a message posted, and later deleted, on Twitter, the military force that controls the US nuclear arsenal released a video in which B-2 bombers drop bombs, …

Netflix confirmed Tuesday that it removed an episode of a satirical comedy show that criticizes Saudi Arabia, after officials in the kingdom reportedly complained. The move raises new questions about the limits of free online expression. In the episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, the American-born Muslim lashed Saudi Arabia after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in …

MANCHESTER: A British police probe into a triple stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year’s Eve which injured three people is now being treated as “a terrorist investigation”, the city’s top officer said on Tuesday. Counter-terrorism police have arrested a 25-year-old man who remains in custody, and are searching an address where he recently lived in the northwestern …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s neighbours, caught off-guard by reports of US plans to withdraw thousands of troops, have begun preparing for the risk that a pullout could send hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across their borders, diplomats say. Alarmed by the possibility of a chaotic withdrawal, diplomats from neighbouring countries who have been in talks with US officials in Kabul said they …

China has started building an advanced warship that would be exported to Pakistan under a defence agreement between the neighbouring countries, China Dailyreported on Wednesday. The newspaper, that quoted China State Shipbuilding Corp — one of the largest state-owned defence contractor — said that the construction of the ship had started in the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai and is a version of …

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested a child pornographer who was involved in this heinous crime in the Badami Bagh area for quite some time and recovered video clips from his mobile phone. The authority was moved into action after a video clip of the 45-year-old suspect (name withheld) with a child had gone viral on social …

ISLAMABAD: As many as 94 journalists and media staff were killed in work-related incidents around the world last year, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Out of the 94 people killed, five were from Pakistan. The new death toll marks a slight increase, up from 82 killings recorded the previous year and represents a reversal of the downward …