UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed a call from US president-elect Donald Trump for unity after what has been described as a bitter and divisive presidential campaign. In a phone call on Friday afternoon when anti-Trump protests were underway across the United States, Ban congratulated Trump again on his election as the forty-fifth President of the […]
Hillary Clinton told donors that the FBI delivered a double whammy to her presidential candidacy in the final days of the campaign by taking another look at emails related to her private server before abruptly saying he found no wrongdoing. A member of her national finance committee who was on the call on Saturday told […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he was aware of the hardship people were facing in India because of the demonetisation move, but emphasized that it was necessary in the larger interests of the nation. Addressing the Indian diaspora in Japan, Modi said people back home were hailing his decision of rendering Rs 500 […]
Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff said here on Friday that she fears the current effort in Brazil to roll back social programmes is part of a region-wide trend threatening the progress made by left governments in diminishing inequality. During the last 15 years, Latin America has experienced rising incomes for workers and the poor, […]
US President Barack Obama said that Republican nominee Donald Trump does not share the values of most Americans and is “uniquely unqualified” to hold the nation’s highest office. Obama on Friday travelled to North Carolina for the second time in three days to rally support for Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, Efe news reported. “Don’t choose […]
The Pentagon has confirmed that Al Qaeda’s top leader in Afghanistan, Faruq al-Qatani, was killed in a US strike. The airstrike was carried out on October 23 in Kunar province, located 230 km east of Kabul and along the border with Pakistan, the Pentagon announced on Friday. “This successful strike is another example of US […]
By Vikas Datta The venerable sages of India, the Buddha, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak — the founders of all major religions — were all known to spurn material comfort and stress compassion for the weak and safeguarding nature, but not many of their followers emulated them. One who did unreservedly was this Christian saint, […]
Researchers have uncovered a stone slab in Jerusalems Church of the Holy Sepulchre venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ, a media report said. The slab, which has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 A.D., has been exposed as part of a major restoration project at the church, according to the […]
The Democratic Party has accused the Republican Party of coordinating efforts, along with their presidential nominee Donald Trump, to intimidate minority voters intending to cast ballots in the November 8 elections and has filed a court motion on the matter. Sources on Thursday confirmed that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has filed a motion in […]
Russia described the latest report by the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) in Syria as “unconvincing,” saying that the report is “not substantiated by sufficient testimonial basis”. “We can say now that in most cases they are not substantiated by sufficient testimonial basis, first of all material proof, they are full of contradictions and therefore, […]