US President Donald Trump will hold an official bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. Citing remarks by US National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton, CNN reported that the first in-person meeting between Trump and Putin and the first […]
South Korea and the US on Wednesday conducted joint ballistic missile exercises a day after North Korea declared a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a media report said. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement that the missile units of South Korea and the US carried out the joint […]
One person was killed and six others were injured after two armed men opened fire on a group of people in the French city of Toulouse, police said. The shooting took place on Monday night at around 9.00 p.m. (local time) in the city’s La Reynerie district. The attackers managed to flee on a motorcycle, […]
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin agreed to further boost bilateral ties and strengthen coordination on the Korean Peninsula and other major issues. China and Russia are comprehensive strategic partners of coordination, and it is quite important for them to intensify communication and coordination in dealing with major affairs, said […]
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, bringing back the first Chinese experiment ever to visit the orbiting laboratory. The unmanned spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 8:12 a.m. EDT — about five hours after leaving the space station. It wrapped up SpaceX’s 11th contracted […]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday pledged to lift “in this autumn” the state of emergency imposed in the wake of Paris attacks on November 13, 2015. “I will re-establish the freedoms of the French by lifting the state of emergency in this autumn, because these freedoms are the condition of the existence of a […]
Qatar has responded to a list of demands from Saudi Arabia-led Arab alliance, which gave Doha an extra 48 hours to decide, officials confirmed on Tuesday. The decision was made after Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Kuwait late Monday, reports Xinhua news agency. The minister was carrying a handwritten […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump may discuss arms control during their upcoming meeting later this week in Germany, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Monday. At a news briefing ahead of Putin’s trip to Germany, Ushakov confirmed that the Russian and US Presidents will meet on the sidelines of […]
North Korea on Tuesday launched a ballistic missile into the East Sea, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). “North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the East Sea from the vicinity of Banghyon, North Pyongan province, at around 9.40 a.m.,” Yonhap News Agency quoted the JCS as saying. Army Col. Roh […]
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi Full of strange facts and objects, our museums and history books carry some very interesting stories from bygone times. But one peculiar piece that doesn’t find space anywhere is about a French monarch’s struggle with constipation that led him to have a commode built under his throne. Height of glory […]