Seoul, June 1 (IANS) Barely weeks after North Korea announced its first launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, South Korea and the US conducted their biggest joint anti-submarine naval exercise, the Seoul government announced on Monday. The five-day military drill on South Korean waters close to Jeju island began on Saturday with the […]
Kabul, June 1 (IANS) At least 25 militants were killed in clashes that erupted after attacks on several security check posts in Afghanistan’s restive Kandahar province, media reported on Monday. According to officials, Taliban militants attacked security check posts in Kalamshah, Surkh Abad, Rud Kala and Enzar Kala areas of Marouf district leading to heavy […]
New York, June 1 (IANS) A young mother, shocked to find her picture of publicly breastfeeding her son on Facebook, has shot a furious letter to the person who had posted the picture. The person, stranger to the woman, had clicked the photo while she was feeding her child in public and posted it on […]
Washington, May 31 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the US on Sunday after fracturing his leg in a cycling accident in France earlier in the day, the State Department said. Kerry broke his right femur in the accident and, given the injury is near the site of his prior hip […]
Islamabad/New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) India’s objections to the 3,000 km-long Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC) notwithstanding, Islamabad was firmly committed to the $46 billion project and would not permit any attempt to sabotage it, a key advisor to the prime minister said. Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs and national security advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
Washington, May 30 (IANS) As China rapidly builds new artificial islands in the South China Sea to expand its territorial claims there, Washington is adamantly refusing to recognise those claims. On Saturday, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter called on Beijing to stop amid fresh tensions, CNN reported. Last week, a US surveillance plane swooped over […]
Cairo, May 30 (IANS) Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a son of a leading member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group after the Egyptian-American man gave up his Egyptian nationality, official MENA news agency reported. Mohamed Salah Sultan was sentenced to 25 years in jail over violence and terror charges after he was arrested following […]
Paris, May 30 (IANS) Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who is also the boss of the right-wing newly renamed Les Republicains party pledged on Saturday to restore the confidence of discontented voters. “It is not a dream, it’s just our ambition, the Republic of confidence. That’s why we became Republicans,” Sarkozy said, Xinhua reported. “We […]
Colombo, May 30 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government on Saturday said that it is in talks with China to extend a highway linking the capital and the deep south. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government is having talks with China to fund the project connecting Colombo and Hambantota in the south, Xinhua reported. […]
A high-intensity earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred in the sea off the east coast of Japan on Saturday, the USGS said. The quake struck 189 km west-northwest of Chichi-shima, and 874 km south of Tokyo, the US Geological Survey said. It said the temblor occurred at a depth of 677.6 km. Meanwhile, […]