Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut yesterday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of last month’s blast began to fade.

China has taken the most active role among countries seeking to interfere in the US election and has the biggest program to influence domestic politics, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Friday, without providing any details.

US President Donald Trump has ordered government agencies to end employee training sessions on fighting racism because they amount to “un-

The Taliban’s negotiating team has arrived in Qatar, a spokesman said yesterday, in a sign that long-delayed peace talks with the Afghan

US President Donald Trump said the United States must look “very seriously” into the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei

Russia has reassured India that it would not supply arms to Pakistan while promising to give priority to India’s needs for advanced military systems, according to defence sources.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has come under fire over reports that he mocked the country’s war dead as “suckers” and “losers”, with Joe Biden, his main opponent in the upcoming presidential election, declaring him “unfit” for the commander-in-chief role.

Rescue workers continued to dig through the rubble of a Beirut building for a third day on Saturday, still hoping to find someone alive more than a month after a massive port explosion shattered Lebanon’s capital.

International chambers of commerce have urged the Malaysian government to reconsider the blanket entry ban on citizens of countries with more than 150,000 Covid-19 cases.

Belarusian police arrested five university students in the capital Minsk, human rights activists have said, and videos posted on social media have showed chaotic scenes of those detained being dragged away by officers through crowded corridors.

A summer of street marches will culminate over the Labor Day holiday weekend with some rallies backing US President Donald Trump, while others continue protests against racial inequality and police violence across the country.

China has taken the most active role among countries seeking to interfere in the US election and has the biggest programme to influence domestic politics, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Friday, without providing any details.

Nato yesterday called for an international probe into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and demanded Moscow reveal its Novichok nerve agent programme to the global chemical weapons watchdog.

Russia is actively trying to undermine voters’ faith in the US electoral system and especially in voting by mail ahead of the November 3 election, according to a Department of Homeland Security analysis Thursday.

A far-left activist suspected of killing a right-wing protester in Portland was shot dead by police in Washington state as they tried to arrest him, local law officials said.

Bahrain said late Thursday it had agreed to allow UAE flights to and from Israel to overfly the kingdom, a day after a similar decision was announced by Saudi Arabia.

Rescuers resumed a search yesterday for possible survivors under rubble in Beirut, buoyed by faint hopes of a miracle a month after a monster blast ripped through the city’s port.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said nothing will come between the Chinese people and the Communist Party that has governed them for more than 70 years, setting a combative tone at a difficult moment in United States-China relations.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the closure of migrant detention centers in Libya, denouncing what he called rights violations committed there.

Russia’s “Sputnik-V” Covid-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published by The Lancet medical journal.