Brazil threatens striking police with prosecution as death toll tops 120
Reuters, Vitoria :Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo threatened striking police officers with criminal charges on Friday as the federal government sent in...
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Modi faces election test as voting begins in Uttar Pradesh
AFP, Muzaffarnagar :Voting got underway on Saturday in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh in a contest seen as a key test for Narendra Modi...
Assad rejects Trump’s call for ‘safe zones’ inside Syria
Agencies, Damascus :Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News, rejected President Trump’s idea to create “safe zones” inside Syria as “not...
Iraq won`t take part in regional conflict, Abadi says after Trump phone call
Reuters, Baghdad :Iraq won’t take part in any regional or international conflicts, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday.The comment came after Abadi had spoke...
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Erdogan approves voting on powerful presidencyAP, AnkaraTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved holding a national referendum on constitutional reforms that would usher in a...
Syria war seethes despite cease-fire
AP, Beirut :Syria’s fronts are on fire despite a cease-fire reached in December between the rebels and the government.Though the two sides sat face-to-face in...
Trump border ‘wall’ to cost $21b, says report
Reuters Washington: US President Donald Trump wants to build ‘wall’ along US-Mexico borderWall would cost over $21 billion, take 3 years to construct, says reportEstimated...
Hillary trolls Trump over travel ban ruling
NDTV , Washington :Hillary Clinton trolled US President Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reinstate a temporary ban on citizens...
Afghan military would support more foreign troops
Reuters, Kabul :The Afghan Defence Ministry welcomed on Friday suggestions by the commander of international forces in Afghanistan that more troops were needed to train...
In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty
Reuters, Washington :In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps American and Russian deployment of...
UK govt ‘does not believe’ in second Scottish referendum
AFP, London :The British government “does not believe there should be a second referendum” on Scottish independence, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokeswoman said Wednesday, following...
9/11 mastermind`s note, delivered now, calls Obama `head of the snake`
AFP, Washington :The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wrote to former president Barack Obama to tell him 9/11 was a direct result of...