Agency, New Delhi :In the middle of a bitterly-fought national election, the Congress and the BJP have joined hands for...
AFP, Moscow :Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called for an OSCE investigation into who was behind the deaths of dozens of people in Kiev last month in attacks by snipers, saying the truth could no longer be “covered up”.Lavrov’s comments came after Estonia’s top diplomat told EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a phone call leaked this weak that the then-Ukrainian opposition to president Viktor Yanukovych may have been involved in the attacks.“The latest information about the...
AP, Jerusalem :Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that eight months after a bloody war in the Gaza Strip...
Taiwan calls Chinese military drills a threat to regionAP, Beijing Taiwan’s government said Thursday that recent Chinese military drills aim to intimidate the island and are a threat to regional peace and stability.China’s attempts to “pressure and harass Taiwan and seek to raise tensions between the sides and in the region,” the Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said on its website. Indonesia quake kills 3AP, JakartaA shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes,...
AFP :A court in the Philippines on Wednesday acquitted Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa of four tax evasion charges, alongside her...
AFP. Florida :A darkly angry, sometimes swearing President Donald Trump vowed to win landslide reelection at a Florida campaign rally...
Junior doctors in England started their first ever all-out strike Tuesday in a bitter, deadlocked row with Prime Minister David...
AP, Cairo :Egypt’s powerful intelligence chief, a longtime mentor of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, was removed and replaced by his deputy, security officials said SaturdayGen. Mohammed Farid el-Tohamy, in his mid 60s, was seen as a hardliner in the government crackdown against Islamists and secular dissidents.El-Tohamy was put in charge of the general intelligence agency immediately after el-Sissi, then head of the military, led the ouster of the elected President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 following massive protests against his Islamist...
Reuters, Beijing :Chinese police shot dead six people during a “terrorist” attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang and six more died when explosives they were carrying detonated, state media said, as officials accused a prominent academic of aiding militants.Police came under attack on Friday by a group throwing explosive devices in Xinhe county, the official news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing regional authorities, the latest violence to jolt an area with a large Muslim population.Five suspects were...
Reuters, New York :US President Donald Trump faced legal challenges from women on two fronts on Tuesday as a defamation...
BSS :About two dozens of Afghan women chanting “bread, work, freedom” protested in the capital on Sunday against the Taliban’s...