Canadian PM Trudeau likely to resign this week: report
NN Online: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to announce his resignation this week as he faces mounting dissent within his Liberal Party, newspaper...
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Hania Aamir refers to India and Pakistan as ‘distant cousins’
NN Online: Renowned Pakistani actress Hania Aamir recently described the relationship between India and Pakistan as that of “distant cousins” in an interview with CNN....
Winter storm hammers across US-UK
Agency : A severe winter storm has hammered the United States, with meteorologists warning more than 60 million people in the country’s east faced blizzard...
Bird flu outbreaks strike Japan farms
AFP : Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region.It is the...
US plans $8b arms sale to Israel
BBC : The US Department of State has notified Congress of a planned $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel, an American official has confirmed to...
Wars trigger record number of children
Deutsche Welle : More children than ever before are estimated to be living in conflict zones or forcibly displaced, the United Nations children’s agency Unicef...
Thousands in S Korea brave cold to protest for-against Yoon
Deutsche Welle : Thousands of protesters took to the snowed-in streets of South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday to rally both for and against the...
India flags concern China’s plan for world’s largest dam on Brahmaputra
Agency : India has expressed its concern over China’s plan to construct the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra, which is known as Yarlung-Tsangpo River...
China redoubling efforts to undermine democracy
UNB : Taiwan ‘s government says China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island’s democracy and close ties with the United States...
Hundreds of animals killed in Dallas fire
UNB : A fire that broke out at a shopping center in Dallas on Friday morning killed more than 500 animals, most of which were...
Syria’s FM to heads UAE, Qatar, Jordan to ‘build partnerships’
Al Jazeera : Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud shakes hands with Syria’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-ShaibaniSyrian Foreign Minister Asaad...
World’s oldest person dies at 116
Agency : Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said...