A souvenir wedding cake from US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania’s wedding is up for auction. The Los Angeles-based Julien’s Auctions house is currently accepting bids on a serving of the couple’s wedding cake, which was originally provided as a take-home souvenir for guests of their January 2005 nuptials, Fox News reported on […]
Pakistan on Saturday said it has received a response from India on Islamabad’s offer to allow alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet his wife and it was being considered. “Indian reply to Pakistan’s humanitarian offer for Commander Jadhav received & is being considered,” Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said. Pakistan last week announced that […]
The European Union (EU) delegation to the UN in Geneva has said it is intensifying its efforts on all fronts to “better manage migration together”. In a statement released in Geneva on Wednesday, the EU said it has spent two years dedicated to tackling, humanely and effectively, migration in Europe which it described as one […]
Security Council President Sebastiano Cardi says that his office and that of General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak are in touch about the next step in the world court judge’s election in which sitting judges Dalveer Bhandari of India and Christopher Greenwood of Britain are deadlocked. “We are consulting with the PGA’s (President of the General […]
In a startling revelation, a group of data scientists has found 156,252 Russian accounts on Twitter which mentioned #Brexit and posted nearly 45,000 messages related to the EU referendum in the 48 hours around the vote. According to a report in The Times on Thursday, “Russian Twitter accounts posted more than 45,000 messages about Brexit […]
The Russian international news network RT America has registered as a “foreign agent” in the US at the request of the Department of Justice, the outlet’s editor-in-chief has announced. “Between a criminal case and the registration we chose the latter. Congratulations to the US freedom of speech and all those who still believe in it,” […]
The General Assembly rallied around world court Judge Dalveer Bhandari on Monday in his bid for re-election, defying the Security Council where permanent members and their allies put up a fight to protect one of their own, Britain’s Christopher Greenwood. Bhandari steadily increased his votes from 110 to 121 in the Assembly during five rounds […]
Facing scrutiny over the presence of Russian ads on its platform during the 2016 US presidential poll, Facebook has agreed to support new limited federal rules on online political ads. The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has asked tech companies and campaigns to disclose the origin of political ads from now on. In its comments […]
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end “separatist havoc” in the northeastern region. He addressed a campaign event on Sunday on his first visit there since imposing direct rule on the region a fortnight ago, BBC reported. Defending his decision in Barcelona, he said he had […]
The Mexico City government has released 117.6 million pesos (over $6 million) for immediate use toward reconstruction after the September 19 earthquake, Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera has said. He added the city government had also received $750,000 for reconstruction from the US-based Rockefeller Foundation, Xinhua reported Providing a roundup on actions to help the city, […]