Seattle: A US judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries after Washington state and Minnesota urged a nationwide hold on the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country. US District Judge James Robart in Seattle on Friday ruled that the states had standing to challenge Trump’s…

In his first phone call to an Arab leader, US President Donald Trump discussed with Saudi King Salman bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud yesterday a full range of bilateral and regional issues, including extensive coordination in combatting terrorism, establishing safe zones in Syria and deepening Saudi-American economic ties. The call which according to a White House official occurred at at 1:30 p.m. Washington…

Macerata: Two moderate earthquakes, measuring 4 and 4.4 in magnitude, shook central Italy on Friday. There were no initial reports of casualties or damage. The quakes with epicentres between Perugia and Macerata in the Marche region were followed by two weaker tremors. The quakes struck at 4.47am and 5.10 am. Tremors of 3.1 and 3.8 magnitude whose epicentres were also in the province of Macerata were…

On CallFile Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Open Sydney: Australia on Friday was scrambling to come to terms with the realisation that decades as one of the closest of US allies may count for little in the “America First” vision of President Donald Trump. Australia…

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The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources…

Washington, US President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch as the new Supreme Court Justice, after the top court was evenly divided between Democrat and Republican appointees since Justice Antonin Scalia died last February. Gorsuch, a 49-year-old judge at the US Court of Appeals in Denver city of Colorado, is the youngest nominee in 25 years to the lifetime position. As expected, Trump’s…

A senior Russian intelligence officer who was arrested on suspicion of treason in December has been charged with passing secrets to the CIA, sources told the Russian news agency Interfax on Tuesday. Sergei Mikhailov was the deputy head of the information security department of the FSB, Russia's national security service. He was arrested along with Dmitry Dokuchaev, a cybersecurity expert who worked…

Beijing: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit Zhongba county in Tibet on Wednesday, authorities said. The quake shook parts of Tibet at 6:00 AM (local time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). The epicentre was at a depth of 8 kilometre, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. No casualties have been reported so far.   PTI

Dubai: Dubai carrier Emirates said it has adjusted its crews for flights to the United States following President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The new president faced mass protests and global outrage over the controversial bar on travellers from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, as around 300 people were stopped or detained…

TEXAS: An online donation drive to rebuild a mosque that was gutted by fire in Victoria in the US state of Texas has raised more than $900,000 in two days demonstrating the overwhelming goodwill from people in the city and beyond. The Islamic Center of Victoria was destroyed in early morning fire on Saturday when nobody was in the building in Victoria city, about 185-km southwest of Houston. The incident…

For the first time, the Trump administration has indicated that Pakistan could be included in a list of Muslim-majority countries from where immigration to the US has been banned by President Donald Trump. “The reason we chose those seven countries was, those were the seven countries that both the Congress and the Obama administration identified as being the seven countries that were most identifiable…

Washington, US President Donald Trump held telephonic conversations with the King of Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi to seek their support for the creation of safe zones in Syria and Yemen, a White House statement said. The calls on Sunday made no mention of Trump’s ban on the entry of citizens and refugees from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, the Politico…