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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he wants to renegotiate a “ridiculous” water supply agreement with Singapore, the latest sign of fraying ties between the neighbours since last month’s shock election. The 92-year-old returned for a second time as premier after his opposition alliance scored an unexpected victory at the polls, toppling a long-ruling coalition that Mahathir himself once ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Every few metres someone—a newlywed couple, a group of young girls with balloons—stops Samar Almogren to cheer her on or flash her a thumbs-up. It’s midnight in Riyadh, and she’s making her way across the city she was born and raised in, finally in the driver’s seat of her own car. Saudi Arabia’s notorious ban on women ...

Marijuana will be legal nationwide in Canada starting October 17 in a move that should take market share away from organised crime and protect the country’s youth, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. The Senate gave final passage to the bill to legalise cannabis on Tuesday, legislation that will make Canada only the second country in the world to make ...

Three people, including a nine-year-old child, were killed and more than 200 others were injured when a severe earthquake struck on Monday morning in the western city of Osaka, Japan. The photographs on television show that the houses are moving and the water pipes are exploding and the water is gushing out of them. There has not been any more ...

India today rejected a UN report alleging human rights violations in Kashmir as “fallacious, tendentious and motivated”. In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the report is “overtly prejudiced” and seeks to build a “false narrative”. It violated the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, it said. In the report released today, the UN talked about alleged ...

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un signed a “very comprehensive” document after their historic summit today, with the US president saying that the process of denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula will begin “very soon” and the North Korean leader promising to leave the past behind. The two leaders had a one-on-one meeting, with translators only, followed by an expanded meeting including ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met US President Donald Trump this morning in Singapore in a historic summit that marked the first meeting between a US President and North Korean leader. Donald Trump earlier labelled the highly anticipated talks as a “one-time shot” at peace. The meeting marks a dramatic shift in relations between the two nuclear ...

India was the only country in the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation grouping which opposed China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that any mega connectivity project must respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries. A declaration signed by leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries, including Modi, at the end of a two-day ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today on a two-day visit primarily to attend the annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) which is likely to deliberate on several pressing global issues including future of Iran nuclear deal, the impact of US sanctions on Russia and situation in the Indo-Pacific region. It is Modi’s second visit to China in little ...

One of Central America’s most active volcano Volcan de Fuego erupted on Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 20 while a towering cloud of smoke blanketed nearby villages in heavy ash in Guatemala — authorities say the death toll could rise. The volcanic eruption spewed a river of red, hot lava and belched thick clouds of smoke nearly six ...