A five-year-old girl has become the youngest reported victim of the war on drugs in the Philippines, a media report said on Saturday. Danica May Garcia was shot to death in her family’s store by two men on motorcycles, CNN quoted the police as saying in Dagupan in Pangasinan province. According to local officials, the […]
A US Navy patrol craft fired three warning shots at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boat after American officials said it had harassed the vessel, a media report said on Friday. Another US patrol craft and a Kuwaiti Navy ship were also harassed in the incident, which took place in the northern end of the […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants in the US. However, the Manhattan real-estate mogul has declined to clarify whether he would still forcibly deport the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US — a major tenet of his immigration platform — after he suggested earlier […]
Cuban authorities have confirmed that direct commercial flights from the US would resume on August 31 after more than 50 years of suspension. “The start of regular commercial flights from the US is a positive step and a major contribution to better relations between the two countries,” Eduardo Rodriguez, Cuba’s deputy minister of transportation, said […]
An assassination attempt on German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly been foiled here as Czech police detained an armed man who tried to join her motorcade during visit to the capital. “The perpetrator has been detained,” the Mirror quoted police spokesman Josef Bocan as saying on Thursday. “He is suspected of attempting to cause a […]
Containing India to 353 in the first innings after Ravichandran Ashwin and Wriddhaman Saha hit centuries in the post-lunch session, West Indies fought back to score 107-run for 1 on the second day of the third Test match at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday. At stumps, KC Brathwaite at 53 not […]
Myanmar’s House of Representatives (the Lower House) has adopted an anti-corruption proposal where measures will be introduced in accordance with the directives of the government, parliament sources said on Thursday. Parliamentarians stressed the need to end corruption which remains the country’s biggest impediment to achieving modern development, expressing support for the motion which called on […]
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that her Republican rival, Donald Trump incited violence when he said gun rights supporters could stop her from winning.. “Words matter, my friends. And if you are running to be president or you are president of the US, words can have tremendous consequences,” the former US secretary of state […]
Turkish President Recep Tayip Ergodan on Tuesday met Russian President Vladimir Putin to give a fresh start to the bilateral relations of the two countries which nosedived after Turkish military downed a Russian fighter jet last November. This was the two leaders’ first meeting since the downing of the Russian fighter jet by Turkey on […]
Tension gripped the Arunachal Pradesh capital on Tuesday after former Chief Minister Kalikho Pul, unseated on July 13 by a Supreme Court ruling, committed suicide, police said. Pul, 47, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his official residence. Incumbent Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein confirmed to IANS that Pul had committed suicide. “We […]