British actress Emma Watson’s agent confirmed that she is not accepting any new acting assignments as she wants to give time to her personal life. She has been away from the glitzy world following her flick Little Women. Entertainment Weekly quoted United Entertainment manager Jason Weinberg as saying, “Emma’s social media accounts are dormant but her career isn’t.” Having been …

UNITED NATIONS: As senior military officials from India and Pakistan were discussing how to de-escalate tensions, Pakistan’s UN envoy reminded the Security Council that the United Nations charter does not allow the use of force to prevent ‘future’ and ‘anticipatory’ attacks. Pakistan used the Arria Formula, an informal arrangement, to convey the alarming message hours before senior military commanders from …

American media personality Scott Disick’s girlfriend, Amelia Hamlin defended her photographs with a clarification note after the social media users objected, calling into question her intention behind her tanned skin. The social media users reacted to her post with their negative comments in a post on her social media feed. Taking to her Instagram stories, she clarified the accusations of …

Fans were left amazed after Pakistani musician Atif Aslam shared his latest song Raat. Taking to Twitter, the vocal powerhouse teased fans for the release of the music video of the groovy song. “Wait no more! Dropping the glimpse of the most awaited track Raat,” he teased fans. It came to no surprise that fans from across the globe were ecstatic …

YANGON: Junta supporters wielding knives and slingshots clashed with anti-coup residents in Myanmar on Thursday, the first such showdown between opposing forces as the nation nears a month of military rule. The country has been gripped by a torrent of anger, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets nationwide to call for the release of civilian leader Aung San …

NEW YORK: New York prosecutors investigating former president Donald Trump’s finances have received his tax returns following a marathon legal battle, a spokesman said on Thursday. “Our office obtained the records on Monday,” Danny Frost, a spokesman for Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance, said. Vance’s office obtained the returns after the supreme court rejected a last-ditch bid on Monday by …

YEREVAN: Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused the military of an attempted coup and brought supporters to the streets on Thursday, as months of tensions over its defeat in last year’s war with Azerbaijan came to a head. Addressing some 20,000 supporters in central Yerevan, Pashinyan told military officers it was their duty to “obey the people” after top generals …

WASHINGTON: A declassified version of a US intelligence report, expected to be released soon, has observed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, four US officials familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The officials said the report, for which the CIA was the main contributor, assessed that the crown prince approved …

DUBAI: Bahrain’s crown prince spoke with the Israeli prime minister on Thursday about the return to nuclear talks with Iran, Bahrain’s state-run news agency reported, as the US administration tries to revive the tattered 2015 nuclear accord. Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, also the country’s prime minister, stressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the importance of …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday declared his country had achieved the “human miracle” of eliminating extreme poverty, though questions continue to surround the Communist Party’s criteria for making the claim. In a glitzy ceremony in Beijing, Xi bestowed medals on officials from rural communities, some wearing traditional ethnic-minority attire, and promised to share this “Chinese example” with other …