US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior advisor Jared Kushner has occasionally used a private email account for correspondence with fellow administration officials, his lawyer confirmed. “Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. “Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned […]
US President Donald Trump has announced new travel restrictions for eight countries including North Korea, replacing the previous ban on six Muslim-majority countries, citing threats to national security posed by letting their citizens into Washington. Starting next month, most citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, Venezuela and North Korea will be banned from […]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has stressed on the importance of preserving the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, warning that its crumble would have spillover effects on non-proliferation and disarmament. “It is more important than ever that the international architecture for arms control and disarmament does not crumble. Existing treaties and agreements must not […]
Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L’Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed. A statement said she had died at home “peacefully” overnight, BBC reported on Thursday. With an estimated 2017 net worth of $40 billion, she was the world’s richest woman. She left the company’s board in 2012 and was rarely […]
US President Donald Trump is preparing to dismantle key former President Barack Obama-era limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefields, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. The changes would lay the groundwork for possible counterterrorism missions in countries where Islamic militants are active but the US has not previously tried to […]
Exercising its right of reply in the general debate at the ongoing UN General Assembly Session here, India slammed Pakistan for its support to terrorism, labelling it as “Terroristan”. “In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror,” Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said on Thursday […]
The Mexican authorities have raised the number of casualties to 139 after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook the centre of the country, an official said. The emergency services were carrying out rescue operations in the areas affected in the Tuesday disaster, Efe news reported. Mexico’s National Coordinator for Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente, confirming the toll […]
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said that her country does not fear the scrutiny of the international community as over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh after fleeing the ongoing violence in Rakhine state. “It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to abdicate responsibility. […]
s Apple gets ready to ship iPhone 8 and 8 Plus before it opens iPhone X for pre-orders, a top analyst with Taiwanese business group KGI Securities has warned that iPhone X will cannibalise iPhone 8 orders. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the most famous analyst with KGI Securities when it comes to Apple, it is […]
Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a public meeting here on Wednesday arranged by the the party’s overseas wing as part of its push to enlist Non-resident Indians (NRIs). On Monday in Washington, Gandhi, who is on a tour of the US, spoke at the pro-Democratic Party think tank, Centre for […]