12 Dec 2018 | 11:22 AMWASHINGTON: Two top American organisations in the field of higher education have urged the Trump administration to immediately withdraw its proposed public charge policy on issuing green cards or legal permanent residence status to foreign nationals.
12 Dec 2018 | 1:37 AMBERLIN/STRASBOURG:Prime Minister Theresa May sought Angela Merkel’s support on Tuesday to save her floundering Brexit deal but the European Union ruled out renegotiating the divorce treaty, after May postponed a parliamentary vote she admitted she would lose.
12 Dec 2018 | 1:37 AMISLAMABAD:Probably for the first time, Pakistan has acknowledged that India has stakes in Afghanistan and its cooperation is necessary for the peace process in the war-torn country.
12 Dec 2018 | 1:37 AMKABUL:At least four members of the Afghan security forces and eight civilians, including two women and a child, were killed on Tuesday in a suicide car bombing by the Taliban targeting a military convoy in a district of Kabul province.
12 Dec 2018 | 1:37 AMNEW YORK:Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country’s Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” Tuesday, an honour he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as “guardians” of the truth.
Globe Trot12 Dec 2018 | 1:37 AMThe US on Tuesday returned three church bells seized by American troops from the Philippines as war trophies over a century ago.
11 Dec 2018 | 10:37 PMSAO PAULO: A gunman entered a Catholic cathedral in the Brazilian city of Campinas on Tuesday and fatally shot four people attending midday mass before killing himself at the altar, fire department officials said.
11 Dec 2018 | 8:59 PMNEW YORK: Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Tuesday, an honour he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as "guardians" of the truth.
11 Dec 2018 | 5:21 PMNEW YORK: Incredulous things do happen! Nine years after a New Jersey woman accidentally flushed her gold wedding ring, encrusted with several diamonds, down her toilet, she recently got it back from the public works department.
11 Dec 2018 | 4:31 PMATLANTA: At least three people had died and thousands of homes were left without power in the Carolinas and Virginia early on Tuesday after a storm dumped up to two feet of snow in parts of the southeastern United States.
11 Dec 2018 | 5:21 PMMOSCOW: Two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers arrived in Venezuela on Monday, a deployment that comes amid soaring Russia-US tensions.
11 Dec 2018 | 3:41 PMUNITED NATIONS: Trillions of dollars—equivalent to more than five per cent of global GDP—are paid in bribes or stolen through corruption every year, according to the United Nations.
11 Dec 2018 | 3:21 PMTOKYO: Japan aims to boost defence spending over the next five years to help pay for new stealth fighters and other advanced US military equipment, a source with knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday.
11 Dec 2018 | 3:12 PMBEIJING: Apple has appealed against a Chinese court ruling that banned the sale and import of most iPhone models after granting Qualcomm an injunction against Apple, a stunning decision that comes amid the trade war between the US and China, CNBC reported.
11 Dec 2018 | 2:59 PMWASHINGTON: A top US Congressman has alleged that nearly 100 American children have been abducted to India and sought "real action" from the Trump administration to bring them back to the country.
11 Dec 2018 | 1:16 AMLONDON:British Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal on Monday, throwing Britain's plan to leave the European Union into chaos after admitting that she faced a rout.
11 Dec 2018 | 1:16 AMMARRAKESH:A United Nations conference adopted a migration pact in front of leaders and representatives from around 150 countries in Morocco on Monday, despite a string of withdrawals driven by anti-immigrant populism.
11 Dec 2018 | 1:16 AMISLAMABAD:Pakistan on Monday assured China that the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was a “national priority” as top diplomats of the two countries agreed to further expand the developmental projects to new areas.
11 Dec 2018 | 1:16 AMWASHINGTON:US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed hush payments to alleged former lovers before the 2016 presidential election were legal, pointing to a “simple private transaction.
Globe Trot11 Dec 2018 | 1:16 AMYEREVAN: Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, results showed on Monday, cementing his authority months after sweeping to power in a peaceful revolution.
10 Dec 2018 | 10:19 PMLONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said she would delay a crucial vote on her Brexit deal scheduled for Tuesday, saying she had listened to the concerns of critics.
10 Dec 2018 | 5:42 PMOSLO: Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, an IS sex slave survivor, will be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Monday, as they challenge the world to combat rape as a weapon of war.
10 Dec 2018 | 5:29 PMISTANBUL: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi repeatedly told his killers "I can't breathe" during his final moments in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, CNN reported on Monday.
10 Dec 2018 | 3:24 PMBAGHDAD: Nadia Murad survived the worst of the cruelties and brutality inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, by the Islamic State group before becoming a global champion of their cause and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:58 PMMARRAKESH: More than 150 countries will join a United Nations conference to adopt a global pact to better handle migrant flows, a senior UN official said on Sunday, less than the number that initially worked on the plan.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:54 PMBUKAVU: A rapper critical of President Joseph Kabila was abducted in the eastern DR Congo overnight, his father said Sunday amid rising tensions two weeks ahead of landmark elections.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:35 PMWASHINGTON: Americans will begin feeling the effects next year of a marked slowing in world economic growth but should be spared a new recession, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund said in remarks published on Sunday.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:31 PMSEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is unlikely to visit Seoul in the final three weeks of this year, South Korean TV channel YTN said on Monday, citing an unidentified official in the South Korean presidential office.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:29 PMSYDNEY: Australia’s competition watchdog on Monday recommended a new regulatory body be set up to monitor tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google and their dominance of the online advertising and news markets.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:25 PMBAN NAPIA: With a long-stemmed ladle, Vanthon pulls shiny, molten metal from a kiln and deftly pours it into a mould carved in a wooden block.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:20 PMCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has described the ongoing political crisis in the country as one between foreign and local values.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:10 PMWASHINGTON: Nick Ayers, Donald Trump’s top choice to be his next Chief of Staff, is no longer in the running and the US president is now considering at least two other candidates, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, the latest sign of a chaotic White House staff shake-up.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:04 PMBEIJING: China summoned the US ambassador to Beijing on Sunday to protest the detention of a senior executive of Chinese electronics giant Huawei in Canada at Washington’s behest and demanded the US cancel an order for her arrest.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:00 PMTORONTO: Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is fighting to be released on bail after she was arrested on December 1 in Vancouver at the request of the United States.
10 Dec 2018 | 1:48 PMYEREVAN: Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, bolstered his authority as his political bloc won early parliamentary elections in the former Soviet country on Sunday, the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) results showed.
10 Dec 2018 | 11:10 AMJAKARTA: Lion Air said on Monday passenger numbers dropped by less than 5 percent in November compared to a year earlier, after one of its Boeing Co 737 MAX jets crashed in late October killing all 189 people on board.
10 Dec 2018 | 3:08 PMBELGRADE: “Give birth, don’t delay!”, says a rousing call by the Serbian state to young couples. However, Women say they need better support and not words of encouragement to grow the country’s population.
10 Dec 2018 | 11:04 AMLONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a fight for her political life this week in a parliamentary vote that will decide the fate of her Brexit divorce deal.
10 Dec 2018 | 10:49 AMNEW DELHI: Some rights and advocacy groups have opposed President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate chief State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as America’s next envoy to UN.
10 Dec 2018 | 11:05 AMNEW YORK: Pakistan continues to harbour terrorists that turn around and kill American soldiers, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said, asserting that Washington should not give Islamabad even a dollar until it addresses the issue.
10 Dec 2018 | 12:54 PMWASHINGTON: Jamal Khashoggi’s final words were “I can’t breathe,” CNN said on Sunday, citing a source who has read the transcript of an audio tape of the final moments.
10 Dec 2018 | 1:30 AMPARIS:Workers in Paris swept up broken glass and towed away burnt-out cars on Sunday after the latest violent “Yellow Vest” protest while the government announced that President Emmanuel Macron would address the nation in the next few days.
10 Dec 2018 | 1:30 AMSAN FRANCISCO:A dog that survived the catastrophic wildfire in Northern California apparently protected the ruins of his home for almost a month until his owner returned.
10 Dec 2018 | 1:30 AMLONDON:Thousands of protestors marched through London in support of Brexit on Sunday amid tight security measures in place by Scotland Yard.