The fundamental mutual interests of Moscow and Washington, including fighting terrorism, will help to improve their relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Addressing a plenary session of the Russian Energy Week (REW), which kicked off in Moscow on October 3, Putin said the two countries share fundamental interests, including energy policies, fighting cybercrime, […]
Amid rumours of rift between himself and US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he never considered leaving his post and was committed to Trump’s foreign policy goals. The news came out after NBC News reported that Tillerson almost resigned after he had called the President a “moron”. “I’m not going […]
The governments of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay launched a joint bid to host the 2030 Football World Cup in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Presidents Mauricio Macri of Argentina, Tabare Vazquez of Uruguay and Horacio Cartes of Paraguay met at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, along with FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the president of […]
The girlfriend of Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas gunman who killed 59 people in one of the deadliest mass shootings in history, has said that she had no prior knowledge of the attack, the media reported. In her first public statement since the Las Vegas massacre took place on Sunday night, Marilou Danley, 62, on […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that he has no plans to resign and will not do so and reaffirmed his commitment towards President Donald Trump, the media reported. At a State Department press conference on Wednesday, Tillerson also denied reports that Vice President Mike Pence had to urge him to stay in the […]
By Papri Sri Raman London Going around is a British invention, not improbable in the land of the cartwheel penny, but the London Eye tops it all. It earns 25,000 pounds every day. This millennium marker was supposed to last just five years but has gone around for 17. The slowly moving Ferris Wheel takes […]
At least 58 people were killed and more than 515 others wounded on Sunday night in a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in the US state of Nevada, the worst in US history. In recent years, deadly shootings have been occurring more frequently in the United States, where over 57,000 incidents […]
The death toll from the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert has increased to 59, while 527 others were injured, police said. Clark county Sheriff Joe Lombardo confirmed the latest casualty figures at a press conference on Monday night, reports Efe news Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire with automatic weapons on some […]
The new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus went on sale at Telstra on Friday with thousands of Australians visiting stores across the country to get hands-on with the new phones. Telstra is also offering the new Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular), which adds built-in mobile connectivity to the world’s number one watch. […]
Long thought to be a carbon sink, the world’s tropical forests now release more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere than they remove from it, thanks to their continued deforestation and degradation, warns a new study. The study published in the journal Science, analysed the carbon density of woody live vegetation across tropical America, Africa […]