Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, will lead the US delegation to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea on Sunday, the White House has said. Ivanka, also Trump’s advisor, was scheduled to have dinner on Friday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at his office in […]
The US economic growth rate will increase to 3.1 per cent in 2018 and remain above 3 per cent through 2020, according to President Donald Trump’s first official economic report to Congress. “The Trump Administration is the first since that of President Ronald Reagan to see positive economic growth exceed its first-year forecast,” said the […]
Brazil President Michel Temer has denied through his spokesperson Alexandre Parola, that the federal state of emergency declared about public safety in Rio de Janeiro had any political motivations. In a statement on Wednesday, Temer said that the electoral agenda “is not nor will be the cause” of the federal takeover of Rio de Janeiro, […]
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has turned down UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ offer to mediate between him and the opposition in the ongoing political crisis, Guterres’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said. “He offered to the President (Yameen) UN mediation but the President conveyed that mediation was not wanted at this stage,” Haq said on Wednesday. Asked […]
North Korea on Thursday said it would send a high-level delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics’ closing ceremony, the Unification Ministry confirmed here. Kim Yong-chol, head of the ruling party’s United Front Department, will lead the eight-member delegation for a three-day trip that will start on Sunday, reports Yonhap News Agency. The delegation also includes […]
Education Minister Rob Stokes has expressed his congratulations to inspiring Sydney maths teacher Eddie Woo for his recognition today as one of the top 10 teachers in the world. Mr Woo, a teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, has won widespread praise for demystifying maths through his videos – known as WooTube– watched more than […]
Brazil will intensify negotiations in a bid to enter the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an official statement said. Brazil will strengthen its delegation to the OECD from March to meet the requirements for being a full member, Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. At present, the US, Canada, Mexico and Chile are […]
Two Russians were sentenced to 12 years and four years in prison, respectively, for hacking computer networks of major companies in the US, the New Jersey District Attorney’s office said. Vladimir Drinkman, 37, and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, were members of a network of hackers who raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest cybercrime […]
A French court on Wednesday discharged Jawad Bendaoud, the landlord who provided his apartment to terrorists who killed 130 people here in November 2015. After a three-week trial, Bendaoud was cleared of “concealment of terrorist criminals” charges. According to the Paris criminal court, no evidence had been found to confirm the suspect knew he was […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that work on a new plan for achieving peace in the Middle East peace is “fairly well advanced.” The US official made the remarks in a press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi, where he stressed that the US was committed to making peace […]