MEXICO CITY: US Vice President Kamala Harris held talks with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday during a visit to the region aimed at tackling the “root causes” of a surge in migrant arrivals. The two leaders witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between their countries on cooperation in aid and development in Central America. “We’re …

PARIS: G7 states have found a way to include Amazon, one of the world’s biggest companies, on a list of 100 set to face higher taxes in the countries where they do business by targeting its more profitable cloud computing unit, officials close to the talks said. Some European countries had concerns that Amazon may fall out of scope of …

NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council backed Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday for a second term, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for another five years from Jan 1 of next year. Estonia’s UN Ambassador Sven Jrgenson, council president for this month, said the General Assembly was likely to meet to make the appointment on June …

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a group of Muslim Americans who accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of illegally targeting them for surveillance. On Monday, the court issued a statement saying that it will look at the FBI’s use of an informant to collect information from several Los Angeles and Orange County …

WASHINGTON: The US pullout from Afghanistan is more than 50 per cent complete, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, as it approaches its Sept 11 deadline to remove troops. Since President Joe Biden ordered the departure from Afghanistan in April, the Department of Defence has withdrawn the equivalent of approximately 500 C-17 loads of material, the US military’s Central Command (Centcom) …

THE HAGUE: United Nations war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, rejecting all grounds of appeal against a lower tribunal’s verdict. Mladic, 78, led Bosnian Serb forces during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. He was convicted in 2017 on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes including …

KARACHI: A shutter-down strike was observed and protest rallies were held in many cities and towns of Sindh on Tuesday in response to a call given by Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) against the arrest of its chairman Sanan Khan Qureshi and many of his party colleagues a day earlier. In Karachi, markets, bazaars and shops were closed in Gulshan-i-Hadeed …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is mulling over new legislation to give legal cover to members of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) board. Last month, the government got an extension to the presidential ordinance under which the incumbent members had been appointed. According to the existing CDA Ordinance 1960, a civil servant cannot be appointed as a member of the board. …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court acquitted on Tuesday seven leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in cases pertaining to facilitating and listening to the alleged hate speech of London-based party founder Altaf Hussain. Senior leaders including Dr Farooq Sattar, former Karachi mayor Wasim Akhtar, Rauf Siddiqui, Khawaja Izharul Hasan, Salman Mujahid, Qamar Mansoor, Rehan Hashmi along with nearly 200 unidentified …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday stressed the need for strengthening the judiciary and judges instead of demolishing the same by encouraging angry expressions. “The strength of the judge is always his judgement and the clarity of thought while sticking to the already set high principles,” the Supreme Court judge obser­v­­ed, emphasising that the judges should be polite even …