Tehran, March 9 (IANS) European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton arrived in Iran’s capital Tehran Saturday for talks on Iran’s nuclear issue and the relations between Iran and Europe, media reported. Ashton is scheduled to meet with Iran’s president, foreign minister and parliament speaker during her stay in Tehran, Xinhua reported. Senior Iranian nuclear […]
Washington, March 9 (IANS) The US Navy said Saturday that it has dispatched a warship to assist in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The USS Pinckney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is en route to the southern coast of Vietnam to aid in the search for flight MH370, Xinhua quoted the US […]
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) It couldn’t have been a better day for their victory – Raagini Makkar and her troupe Naadyog picked the “India’s Got Talent 5” trophy here on International Women’s Day Saturday. Raagini is a housewife and a kathak dance teacher and she runs her family institute called Naadyog, which is 25 years old […]
Sanaa, March 8 (IANS) Three members of the Yemeni armed forces were killed in an Al Qaeda attack Saturday, a provincial police source said. The three, belonging to the 115th Armoured Army Brigade, were killed when unidentified gunmen, believed to be from Al Qaeda, attacked their base in the district of Lowder in southern Abyan province, […]
Kuala Lumpur, March 8 (IANS) Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said here Saturday that no signs had been found that a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, had crashed,. He said no sign of any plane wreckage was found and denied earlier media reports that the plane had crashed south of an island off […]
Kabul, March 8 (IANS) A bomb blast in Jalalabad city in Afghanistan Saturday killed a district governor and injured five others, a local official said. “A bomb blast targeted the vehicle of Nazian district governor this morning killing him on the spot and injuring five others”, Xinhua quoted the unnamed official as saying. “The bomb was […]
Dubai, March 8 (IANS) An Indian in Dubai has been jailed for six months followed by deportation from the United Arab Emirates for molesting a five-year-old girl. The Dubai Court of First Instance passed the sentence after the 23-year-old delivery man earlier admitted that he had grabbed the girl by her hand, and hugged, kissed and […]
Baghdad , March 8 (IANS) A total of 28 people were killed and 38 others wounded in separate violent attacks, mainly targeting security forces, across Iraq Saturday, police said. The deadliest attacks occurred in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, leaving 18 security personnel dead and 25 others wounded, including three gunmen, Xinhua reported. In one of […]
Cairo, March 8 (IANS) Egypt’s interim President Adli Mansour has approved and issued a long-waited new law regulating the country’s upcoming presidential election, officials said Saturday. The law, consisting of 60 articles in seven chapters, requires that presidential candidates must be Egyptian and born to Egyptian parents. Neither the candidate nor any of his or her […]
Jerusalem, March 8 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would agree to give up “some settlements” in the occupied West Bank in order to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians. “Obviously some of the settlements won’t be part of the agreement, everybody understands that,” Xinhua quoted the prime minister in an interview […]