A campaign for California state’s secession from the US has got the approval to start collecting signatures for its ballot initiative, officials confirmed. The state attorney general issued an official ballot measure title and summary on Tuesday, permitting the campaign to collect signatures. The document was released not on the state attorney general office’s official […]
Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s financial chief, appeared in person for a brief hearing at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. Pell will plead not guilty to all accusations of sexual assault against him, his lawyer has told the court, BBC reported. The 76-year-old Vatican treasurer was accused of historical assaults involving “multiple complainants”, […]
US President Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” with Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his recusal in FBI inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and called the healthcare procedural vote a ‘big step’. “I am disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself,” Trump said during a joint news […]
The Arab League (AL) warned against “the increasing waves of migration to the Arab region”, an official said. “The Arab countries hosted in 2016 more than 26 million Arab migrants compared to 26 million in 2015, without counting those passing through the region for short time until reaching Europe,” said AL Assistant General Secretary of […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has promised to build three new manufacturing plants in the US, President Donald Trump has said. Trump said this in an interview to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The US President said he had a phone conversation with Cook. “He’s promised me three big plants — big, big, big,” Trump […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its economic growth forecasts for the US to 2.1 per cent for this year and the next, down from the 2.3 per cent for 2017 and 2.5 per cent for 2018 that it had predicted in April, the media reported. The global financial institution cited the “uncertainty” over […]
Chinese and Russian commanders conducted a simulation exercise in Kaliningrad province for the ongoing joint military drills code-named “Joint Sea 2017” in the Baltic Sea. In the hours-long exercise on Sunday, two tactical assault groups, consisting of mixed warships from the Chinese and Russian fleets, simulated details of the drills on a map including ship-to-sea […]
US President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election, the newly-appointed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said. “He basically said to me, ‘Hey you know, this is, maybe they did it, maybe they didn’t do it,’” Scaramucci told CNN on Sunday night of a conversation he had with the […]
The attorney general of the US on Thursday said he planned to remain at his post despite harsh criticism from President Donald Trump. Trump has slammed the Justice Department head for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, Efe reported. “I have the honour of serving as attorney general. It’s something that goes beyond any thought […]
Colombia on Thursday celebrated 207th anniversary of their country’s independence with military parades involving thousands of troops and police officers in Bogota and other cities. The motto of the parades was “La paz segura” (A Secure Peace) in a reference to the role of the armed forces in keeping order and protecting public institutions after […]