Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Dutch Prime Minister Rutte won the elections but lost a friend like Turkey, media reports said. “Rutte, you might have finished the elections as the first party, but you should know that you lost a friend like Turkey,” Xinhua news agency quoted Erdogan as saying at a rally […]
The US intelligence community and defence officials are anticipating that North Korea will soon carry out a new round of testing of its missile and nuclear programme, a media report said on Friday. The officials are closely monitoring the regime’s programmes and there are growing intelligence indicators of fresh and concerning activity inside North Korea, […]
Around $120 will be shaved off the average Green Slip for motorists across the State under the NSW Government’s fairer and more affordable CTP reforms, Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Finance, Services and Property Victor Dominello have announced. Under the new model, there will be a new safety net allowing all injured road users […]
Based on current growth trends, international student enrolments across NSW will hit 300,000 in 2017, after a record year in 2016 when enrolments grew by 11.1% to 268,500. NSW’s higher education sector saw the biggest enrolment growth nationwide in 2016 at 15.3% year on year, and remains the most popular destination with 106,160 enrolments. Minister […]
Opposition to the Republican health care bill strengthened, as key industry groups that had supported Affordable Care Act (ACA) or the ‘Obamacare’, said its replacement could harm vulnerable Americans, the media reported. The American Medical Association, which bills itself as the largest organisation of doctors in the nation, in a letter on Wednesday, detailed its […]
China on Thursday published a report on the human rights situation in the United States. The report, titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016”, was released by the Information Office of the State Council, in response to “The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016” issued by the US State […]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday asserted that the Centre has taken very serious note of the hate crimes against Indians in the US and said the Narendra Modi government will come out with a statement on the issue. “Want to assure the house, that the government has taken up incidents against Indians in […]
The US has started the process to deploy an advanced missile defence system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) in South Korea to better counter growing threats by North Korea, Seoul’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday. Parts of the anti-missile system arrived on Monday at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his executive order on immigration, that places a 90-day ban on people from six predominantly Muslim nations. The new order, which excludes Iraq from the original list of seven countries, will go into effect from March 16. The executive order bars citizens from Sudan, […]
Washington Adolf Hitler’s personal phone, recovered from the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin after the fall of the Nazi regime, sold at an auction in the US for $243,000, a media report said. The Alexander Historical Auctions house sold the device to an anonymous highest bidder in Maryland. The phone was kept in a briefcase in […]