BRUSSELS: European powers yesterday insisted the 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions was working, as US President Donald Trump mulls reimposing sanctions on Tehran, reports AFP. The European Union and the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France put on a united front to defend the…

LONDON: Britain said yesterday it has denied a request by Ecuador to issue diplomatic status to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living…

Dubai: Ride hailing applications in Saudi Arabia are recruiting female drivers, after the Kingdom announced plans to lift the ban on women driving by…

TUNIS: A third night of unrest has shaken Tunisia where authorities said yesterday more than 600 people have been arrested this week as anger at austerity measures boils over on the streets, reports AFP. Tunisia is considered a rare success story of the Arab Spring uprisings that began in the North…

PARIS: French police have recovered some of the jewels worth over 4.0 million euros looted from the Ritz hotel in central Paris, a police source told AFP yesterday, as officers hunt for two robbers who remain on the run, reports AFP. The gang burst into the five-star hotel on the French capital’s…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States could “conceivably” return to the Paris climate accord, although he stopped short of signaling any move in that direction, reports AFP. “Frankly, it’s an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had…

MOSCOW: Russia yesterday denounced a US Senate report which accused the Kremlin of conducting disinformation campaigns in attempts to undermine democracies, calling it the latest “unfounded” claim, reports AFP. A report released by the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee,…