Yangon, Feb 10 (IANS) Fighting continued in Myanmar’s Kokang region Tuesday with the government forces combing the areas where troops of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) were retreating, media reported. Clashes took place four times between the two sides during the day, Xinhua news agency reported citing state radio and TV. According to […]
Cairo, Feb. Feb 10 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to build a nuclear power station in Dabaa city in Egypt’s coastal Matrouh province. “I attended with President Putin the ceremony of signing a memorandum of understanding to establish a nuclear power station in Dabaa,” Xinhua news […]
Paris, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) Former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said he was unaware that the women attending the orgies he helped organise were prostitutes, when testifying Tuesday at his trial on procurement charges. Strauss-Kahn is being tried, along with 13 other individuals, by Lille’s Correctional Court on charges of “aggravated procurement” […]
Beijing, Feb 10 (IANS) A man who killed three children in a primary school knife attack in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region three years ago was executed Tuesday. Wu Yechang was found guilty of the triple murder and sentenced to death by the Guigang Intermediate People’s Court in January 2014, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]
London, Feb 10 (IANS) An Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Egypt has released a video purporting to show the beheading of eight Bedouin Arab men it accused of working for the Egyptian and Israeli armies, media reported Tuesday. The video, posted on the Twitter account of the jihadi group known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis’ late […]
Dubai, Feb 8 (IANS) A 26-year-old Indian waiter was sentenced to a one-year jail term in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for setting his ex-girlfriend’s shoe and bed on fire, media reported Sunday. The accused admitted that he got drunk before he visited his Filipina ex-girlfriend’s residence and set her shoe and bed on fire, […]
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Heir to the British throne Prince Charles has said that young people in Britain were being radicalised at an “alarming” rate, for which he partly blamed “crazy” content on the internet, a media report said Sunday. “The frightening part is that people can be so radicalised either by contact with somebody […]
Kiev, Feb 5 (IANS) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday discussed the crisis in Ukraine, stressing the need for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict in the eastern regions. Speaking at a joint press briefing following their talks, Poroshenko pledged continued efforts to seek a peaceful settlement […]
Beijing, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Pseudonyms such as “Obama” and “Putin” will no longer be available to Chinese citizens who wish to hide their identity on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, following new internet restrictions implemented by the country’s authorities, the official newspaper China Daily reported Thursday. Internet accounts that use names impersonating known personalities, […]
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) Saudi Arabia has dismissed claims by a convicted terrorist that it had a role in the 9/11 attacks in the US. While dismissing the claims made by Zacarias Moussaoui, sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 9/11 attacks, the Saudi embassy in Washington in a statement also pointed out […]