A bomb was found on Monday morning near the US embassy in the Philippines capital, Manila, according to media reports. Police closed the southbound lane of Roxas Boulevard in front of the embassy at around 7.30 a.m. local time, Xinhua news agency reported. The Manila Police District’s bomb squad unit detonated the bomb around 8 […]
US President Barack Obama said on Saturday in a statement on Fidel Castro’s death that history would be the judge of the Cuban revolutionary leader’s “enormous impact”. In a statement on the White House’s website, Obama also noted that the United States was extending a “hand of friendship to the Cuban people” at the time […]
Cuban dissidents said on Saturday that the death of ex-President Fidel Castro does not mean there will be any political changes in Cuba, given that he left power 10 years ago, though they do fear more repression during the nine days of national mourning. “Nothing is changing here. The only good news is that we […]
Canadian Conservative Party leaders have ripped Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the condolence message he sent following the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro. The Canadian leader, following Fidel Castro’s death on Friday night at the age of 90, said in his condolence statement on Saturday that his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, […]
UN Secretary-General Ban-ki-Moon expressed serious concern over the prevailing situation at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, an official statement said on Friday. The Secretary-General said he was “deeply concerned about the deterioration of the situation along the Line of Control in Kashmir in recent days,” a statement issued by his office said. […]
US 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has garnered 64,223,958 tallied votes by Wednesday morning, over two million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, according to data released by the non-partisan Cook Political Report. With new votes tallied from New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland and California, Clinton’s popular vote lead reached 2,017,563 overnight. Trump so far […]
The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose Paris offices were targeted by the jihadists in January 2015, will launch a German edition in December. The French magazine will print 200,000 copies in German next week to recognise the support it received after the 2015 attacks that killed its Paris editorial staff, a spokeswoman said on […]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Wednesday ratified the life sentence on the last alive Khmer Rouge leaders for their crimes against humanity. It rejected the appeal against the sentence issued in 2014, Efe news reported. The defendants are the former number two and ideologue of the communist party, Nuon Chea, 89, […]
Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Wednesday said it has entered into an agreement to acquire Russian pharma company JSC Biosintez for $24 million. The Indian company will also assume Russian company’s debt of $36 million, Sun Pharma said in a statement. The total deal size works out to $60 million ($26 million for […]
The US Ministry of Defense on Tuesday confirmed that a senior Al Qaeda leader was killed in a US air strike near Sarmada, Syria, last week. Abu Afghan Al-Masri, an Egyptian who joined Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and later moved to Syria, died on November 18, Xinhua quoted Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook as saying. “He […]