Hong Kong on Sunday began voting for the first Legislative Council election since the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy movement. Chief Executive CY Leung and other government officials in his administration urged the public to come out to vote as polling stations opened at 7.30 a.m., and are due to close 15 hours later, the South China […]
US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged China to abide by its obligations under an international treaty in its activities in the South China Sea. He made the comments during a “candid exchange” with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, here in China before the G20 summit, the BBC quoted the White House as saying. In […]
The UN Security Council is slated to hold a high-level meeting on Syria on September 21 aimed at achieving a political resolution of the ongoing conflict. Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key will chair the high-level discussion which is considered necessary to ensure the peace process in Syria gets back on track, according to […]
Indian tennis stars Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna began their US Open campaign on a sound note, winning their respective opening round matches at Flushing Meadows here. Bopanna kicked off India’s day with a sweat-inducing 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3 win with his Danish partner Frederik Nielsen over 16th seeds Radek Stepanek and Nenad […]
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s image is at its record low with Americans in her 25-year national public life, according to a new poll. According to the Washington Post/ABC News poll on Wednesday, 56 per cent of Americans now hold unfavorable views of Clinton with 41 percent regarding the former secretary of state with […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has stated clearly that there would be “no amnesty” for undocumented immigrants living in the US and would be deported if he was elected in the November 8 elections. “For those here illegally today who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only. To return […]
Ahead of the US-India-Afghanistan trilateral talks scheduled at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in September, Washington said it wanted New Delhi to continue its constructive role in Afghanistan. After visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry announced in New Delhi on Tuesday the restart of the trilateral talks following the Second India-US […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in New Delhi on a wet Monday evening and there were reports that his cavalcade got stuck in a traffic jam on a road from the IGI airport to the city. Though there was no official confirmation of the incident but officials at the traffic control room admitted […]
Ten people were killed when a bus overturned on a highway in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang region on Sunday. The bus driver was among those killed, police said. The accident occurred at around 10 a.m. in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, when the 47-seat bus was approaching its destination. Another 32 people were injured, five of […]
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously condemned the recent missile launch by North Korea and agreed to adopt “significant measures” in addition to existing sanctions against the communist state. The condemnatory text was approved by the 15 UNSC members, including China, a North Korean ally, EFE news reported. The council held a closed-door meeting […]