US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly will visit Mexico next week, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced. The two chiefs “will meet with various federal government officials”, the ministry said on Wednesday, adding it would release more details of the agenda in coming days, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
he Manhattan US Attorneys office is conducting a criminal investigation into Fox News, informed sources told ABC News. Judd Burstein, an attorney representing former Fox News personality Andrea Tantaros, said during a hearing on Wednesday that one of his clients had received a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the use of […]
A Russian spy ship sits 30 miles off the US coast of Connecticut, according to an American defence official. This is the farthest north the Russian spy vessel has ever ventured, the official told CNN on Wednesday. The Leonov, which conducted similar patrols in 2014 and 2015, was off the coast of Delaware, but typically […]
Around 9,000 soldiers from the Brazilian Army were deployed here ahead of a potential police strike, the Ministry of Defence announced, a media report said on Wednesday. Minister of Defence Raul Jungmann told a press conference on Tuesday that the soldiers would patrol here and the nearby cities of Niteroi and Sao Goncalo until February […]
Days after Twitter revealed its fourth-quarter earnings that missed company’s revenue estimates, CEO Jack Dorsey has bought $7 million worth of Twitter stock, media reports said. According to a report in Recode on Tuesday, the documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Dorsey made two separate purchases — he bought about $1 million […]
One militant was killed and six people were injured on Tuesday during a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police said. The incident took place when security forces launched a search operation in Parraypora village after getting information about holed-up militants. The militants opened fire leading to the gunfight, the police said. The injured […]
The Lahore High Court has allowed private channels to show Indian movies as per their terms of agreements with Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). The court on Monday granted permission in the light of Pemra’s 2002 ordinance that television channels were allowed to run Indian films, The News International reported. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali […]
Michael Flynn’s position as US President Donald Trumps national security adviser appeared to be “fluid”, after the White House said that the president was “evaluating the situation”, the media reported. Reports have surfaced that the Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador […]
At least 30 houses and some 50 other buildings were destroyed by bushfires over the weekend in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state, authorities said on Tuesday. The most serious damage was in the Sir Ivan reserve, where the fire destroyed 23 houses, including five in the town of Uarbry, located some 380 km northwest […]
International law is not prepared to deal with cyberattacks even as the interconnected world faces threats on a scale never seen before, India has told the Security Council. The world body is not ready to act on an anti-terrorism treaty dealing with cyber terrorism and even the Security Council’s decisions that impose binding duties on […]