Tag: blames

WASHINGTON: A leading Republican US senator on Sunday alleged that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the death of dissident...

ISLAMABAD: Senator Raja Zafar-ul-Haq on Monday blamed the spoils system for underachievement of Pakistan in cricket, hockey and squash. "Pakistan had a lot of talent...

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across...

DUBAI: Iran on Saturday blamed what it called Donald Trump's "arbitrary and conflicting policies" for global security threats, rejecting the US president's description of...

NEW DELHI: An Indian policeman who spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed said Tuesday that "spiritual powers" made him do it.

ANKARA/MIDYAT, Turkey: Kurdish militants appear to have been behind a car bombing that killed 11 people in central Istanbul on Tuesday, a Turkish presidential spokesman said, while a second bomb on Wednesday killed four people in the largely Kurdish southeast.

DHAKA: Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza on Sunday blamed the ICC's suspension of two of its key bowlers for illegal actions for his side's exit from the World Twenty 20.

ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for a suicide car bombing that killed 28 people in the capital Ankara, and he vowed retaliation in both Syria and Iraq.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Pervez Rasheed has said that the prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) had threatened that 'if the federal ministers came there then they would not return alive', ARY News reported.

ROME/ANKARA: Turkey's leading writer has warned the country could collapse into sectarian conflict and blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the climate of insecurity brutally illustrated by Sunday's deadly attacks in Ankara.

BEIJING: Concerns over a possible U.S. rate rise by the Federal Reserve may have sparked a global stock market rout rather than the devaluation of China's yuan currency, a senior Chinese central bank official told Reuters on Thursday.

RIYADH: A weak global economy is the main reason for "tensions" in world oil markets, Saudi Arabia's crown prince said on Tuesday, in a speech on behalf of ailing King Abdullah.

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia rejected on Monday the idea of any foreign interference in Iraq and blamed Baghdad's "sectarian and exclusionary" policies for a lightning...