PARIS: Dior went back to nature in its Paris fashion week show Tuesday with Greta Thunberg plaits and a garden-inspired collection that seemed to spring straight from the earth. With climate change biting at the heels of the fashion industry, and the London shows hit by environmental protests, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri said she wanted to create clothes that “were …

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Tuesday gave a royal boost to South African surfers harnessing the power of the waves to promote mental health in poor communities. Help through sport — an issue famously close to the prince’s heart — marked the second day of their tour of southern Africa, the first official trip by the Duke and …

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday said “There is no sign of freedom of speech in Jammu and Kashmir”. He said this after visiting the Indian occupied Kashmir, where he was on his maiden six-day tour after the revocation of the valley’s special status on August 5. His three earlier bids to visit occupied Jammu and Kashmir, his home …

MONTREAL: Airlines´ efforts to reduce their carbon emissions will be front and center at the UN aviation agency´s annual conference, which opened on Tuesday days before a major climate protest in Montreal to be attended by teen activist Greta Thunberg. The International Civil Aviation Organization´s 193 member states will take stock of the implementation of a climate plan unveiled at …

NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has denounced the launch of an impeachment inquiry into him as “Witch Hunt garbage.” Reacting to the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of  formal impeachment inquiry against him, Trump tweeted: “Such an important day at the United Nations, so much work and so much success, and the Democrats purposely had to ruin and …

UNITED NATIONS: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that his US counterpart Donald Trump needed to restore trust before the possibility of a meeting. “We must create mutual trust,” Rouhani told Fox News, which Trump regularly watches, after the US leader criticized Iran before the UN General Assembly. “If the government of the United States of America is willing to …

WASHINGTON: Nancy Pelosi, already the most powerful woman in US political history, has just launched an extraordinary and turbulent process which — if it fulfills its goal — would oust a sitting American president. After resisting fellow Democrats´ calls to impeach Donald Trump from the moment she became speaker of the US House of Representatives in early January, the tough-as-nails …

UNITED NATIONS: French President Emmanuel Macron said that this week´s UN summit would be a “lost opportunity” if his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani does not meet US President Donald Trump. In a three-way chat with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a smiling Macron said that if Rouhani “leaves the country without meeting with President Trump, honestly this is a lost …

ANKARA: Five people were injured Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded as a bus carrying police drove by in the southern Turkish province of Adana, state media reported. The blast in Adana was either an “improvised explosive device or a different type of bomb”, the governor, Mahmut Demirtas, told Anadolu news agency. One of those hurt was a police officer, …

BEIJING: A futuristic new airport in Beijing, which is expected to become one of the busiest in the world, was opened by President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Xi declared the starfish-shaped airport open in brief remarks at a ceremony inside the huge terminal, days before the country holds a grand celebration to mark 70 years of Communist rule. Located 46 …