Новости за 22.08.2019

ISTANBUL: Syrian army advances in northwest Syria are putting Turkish troops in the firing line and threaten Ankara’s hopes of preventing a new wave of refugees on its southern border. The offensive around Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in Syria, has already forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee towards Turkey. It has […]

TEHRAN: Iran unveiled its new home-grown air defense system yesterday at a time of increased tensions with the United States. Iranian officials have previously called Bavar-373 the Islamic republic’s first domestically produced long-range missile defense system. Tehran began making Bavar-which means “believe”-after the purchase of Russia’s S-300 system was suspended in 2010 due to international […]

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday that there was not enough time to wholly rewrite Britain’s Brexit divorce deal before an Oct 31 deadline. Johnson met Macron at the Elysee Palace a day after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who challenged Britain to come up with alternatives […]

SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a decision that could escalate a dispute over history and trade and undercut security cooperation on North Korea. With the decision not to extend the pact, the political and trade disputes between South Korea and Japan now extend into some of the […]

NEW DELHI: India’s health ministry has proposed a ban on the production and import of electronic cigarettes, documents seen by Reuters showed, potentially jeopardizing the expansion plans of big firms like Juul Labs and Philip Morris International. The ministry has proposed that the government issue an executive order banning the devices in the public interest, […]

BANGKOK: When an Indian customer of online food delivery service Zomato tweeted that he had cancelled his order because it had been assigned to a non-Hindu worker, and his request for a Hindu denied, thousands weighed in. “Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion,” Zomato responded in a tweet that garnered about 95,000 […]

On a summer’s day in 1985 a seven-year-old boy sat alone at a crowded bus station in Seoul, sobbing as he waited desperately for his mother to return. Jo Youn-hwan was wearing a baseball uniform that his mother had bought him a few days before-the only gift she had ever given him. She told him […]

Taylor Swift has teamed up with Stella McCartney to release a line of ready-to-wear and accessories.  The 29-year-old pop star has joined forces with the British fashion designer – the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney – to create a collection of pieces to mark the debut of her new album ‘Lover’ after they […]

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