TMC set to sweep West Bengal assembly bypolls
PTI, Kolkata :West Bengal’s ruling TMC on Thursday looked set to win all the three assembly seats bypolls for which were held on Monday, bagging...
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Macron, NATO chief hold talks in ‘brain death’ row
AFP, Paris :NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will on Thursday confront Emmanuel Macron in Paris over the French president’s claim the alliance is suffering “brain death”,...
New Zealand PM apologises over 1979 air disaster
AFP, Wellington :Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offered an official apology Thursday on the 40th anniversary of New Zealand’s worst peacetime disaster, the Mount Erebus air...
UK election poll predicts Conservative majority
AFP, London :Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party would win a comfortable majority in Britain’s parliament if the upcoming election were held this week, according to a...
China slams ‘selfish’ US Middle East policies
AFP, Beijing :China on Wednesday denounced US policies in the Middle East as “selfish”, as it blamed Washington for destabilising the fraught region where Beijing...
Egypt uses prosecution branch to crush dissent: Amnesty
AP, Cairo :Egypt’s government is using a secretive judicial agency designed to fight terrorism to detain peaceful protesters, journalists and critics on trumped-up charges without...
‘Bleak’ UN report finds world heading to climate catastrophes
The New York Times :Four years after countries struck a landmark deal in Paris to rein in greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to avert...
Some of US journalists most corrupt people in world’: Trump
AFP. Florida :A darkly angry, sometimes swearing President Donald Trump vowed to win landslide reelection at a Florida campaign rally Tuesday ahead of a Thanksgiving...
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Albania mourns as earthquake search for survivors continuesAFP, Thumane, Albania Albania was in national mourning Wednesday as emergency workers continued to pull bodies from the ruins...
Iran supreme leader claims protests a US-backed ‘conspiracy’
AP, Dubai : Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday claimed without evidence that recent protests across the Islamic Republic over government-set gasoline prices rising were part of...
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Armed men hijack Papua New Guinea plane, steal baggageAFP, Kokopo A charter airline in Papua New Guinea said armed men hijacked one of its planes...
In violent protest, Mexican women demand action on femicide, rape
AFP, Mexico City :Demonstrators smashed windows, spray-painted monuments and clashed with riot police Monday on Mexico City’s main avenue to protest Mexican authorities’ failure to...