Jerusalem, Nov 14 (IANS/EFE) Israel Friday lifted an age ban prohibiting younger Muslims from accessing the Temple Mount compound and the Al Aqsa mosque. The restrictions, which were applied to men and women under the age 35, were lifted a few hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Amman to hold talks with Jordan’s […]
Washington, Nov 14 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel Friday announced an action plan to reform the country’s military nuclear enterprise. According to a statement released by the US defence department, following a series of events involving the nation’s nuclear forces and their leadership, Hagel directed this February both an internal and external review of […]
London, Nov 13 (IANS) A British woman has been told that she faces up to 12 years in an Italian jail for falsely claiming that she was raped in a toilet on a college trip to Florence. Fashion student Serena Bowes, 21, who has waived her right to anonymity, was on an undergraduate visit to […]
London, Nov 12 (IANS) He was once nicknamed “the poorest president in the world” but Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica has received a $1 million offer for his blue Volkswagen Beetle from an Arab Sheikh, media reports here said. The Sheikh offered $1 million for the 1987 model – that has become a symbol of his […]
Cairo, Nov 12 (IANS/EFE) A man died and another was wounded Wednesday when a bomb they were carrying went off as they rode a motorcycle on a Cairo highway, security sources told Efe news agency. The wounded man, 27, was apprehended when he tried to flee the scene. The incident came six days after three […]
Kiev, Nov 12 (IANS/EFE) A soldier was killed and two others were injured in gunfire in eastern Ukraine, where the exchange of artillery fire continues between the separatists and the Kiev army. The clash, reported by the military on Facebook, occurred near the town of Schastye in the rebel region of Lugansk. The insurgents also […]
Moscow, Nov 11 (IANS/EFE) US television network CNN will end its transmissions in Russia by the end of the year and it has notified its local cable distributor of the move, Russian media reported Tuesday. A representative of Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited, a division of Time Warner, the owner of CNN, told the Russian […]
Tehran, Nov 11 (IANS/EFE) Iran’s Abbas Araqchi, deputy chief negotiator at the country’s nuclear talks with world powers, has said it would be “very difficult” for both sides to reach an agreement on the issue before a Nov 24 deadline. Araqchi told the state-run, English-language channel Press TV late Monday that no progress had been […]
Beijing, Nov 10 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday held a meeting ahead of the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Beijing. Xi told Abe that China hopes that Japan continues to follow the path of peaceful development and adopt prudent military and security policies, Xinhua […]
Agartala, Nov 10 (IANS) Arms and drug smuggling, terrorism, circulation of fake currency notes and border crimes are among the issues to be discussed when border guards of India and Bangladesh meeting Nov 17, an official said here Monday. “The BSF (Border Security Force) officials would ask the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) officials to dismantle […]