India probe into bribery in toxic syrup tests nears completion
Reuters :India is close to finishing an investigation into a “comprehensive and exhaustive” complaint that a state drug regulator, in return for a bribe, helped...
International
Entire Gaza population facing hunger crisis, famine risk: UN-backed report
Reuters :The entire 2.3 million population of the Gaza Strip is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day...
Turkey carries out mass detention of ISIL suspects
Al Jazeera :Turkey has arrested hundreds of people suspected of having links to ISIS (ISIL).The roundup was carried out in operations across 32 provinces, Interior...
Russia blasts US on frozen assets as Ukraine bombardment persists
Al Jazeera :Russia has warned that it will react robustly to Western moves to seize its assets or deploy missiles.Moscow could sever diplomatic relations with...
Ethnic minority fighters seize northern town from Myanmar military regime
Al Jazeera :Pick-up trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state recently cleared of troops from the military regime,...
US, China top military officials speak for first time in over a year
Reuters :The top US military officer held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in the first such conversation in...
Trump says he hasn’t read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
AFP : Former US president Donald Trump, who has come under sharp criticism for attacks on immigrants which some say hark back to Nazi philosophy,...
China struggles to house quake victims for winter
AFP : Chinese authorities are facing a “race against time” to ensure victims of the deadliest earthquake in years can be sheltered from freezing winter...
Kim warns of ‘nuclear attack’ if ‘provoked’
AFP : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Pyongyang will not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if “provoked with nukes”, state media said...
Kuwait’s new emir Sheikh Mishal takes oath of office
Al Jazeera : Kuwait’s new emir, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, has been formally sworn in before parliament to begin his rule over the wealthy Gulf...
Trump disqualified from Colorado ballot
BBC Online : Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection clause....