Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday vowed that his country will not develop at the expense of other nations, in a speech marking 40 years of reform. In his speech from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Xi said despite China’s growth, it would “never seek global hegemony” and also highlighted […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he hoped that the Islamabad-backed US-Taliban negotiations which was held a day earlier in the UAE, could bring an end to “almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people”. “Pakistan has helped in the dialogue between Taliban and the US in Abu Dhabi,” Khan tweeted. […]
The US Senate has passed a resolution blaming and condemning Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump who has aligned himself with the Saudi kingdom in the aftermath of the ghastly killing. The Senate on Thursday delivered back-to-back rebukes of the […]
Video-sharing giant YouTube has removed as many as 7.8 million videos between July and September, in its attempt to address violative content on the video platform. According to YouTube’s latest “YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement” report, 81 per cent of these videos were first detected by machines while out of those detected by machines, 74.5 per […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be on a four-day India visit from December 21 to attend the first people-to-people exchange agreed between Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their icebreaking meet in Wuhan earlier this year. After witnessing chill in their ties over the military stand-off in Doklam last year, the two […]
The UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members, the European Court of Justice ruled on Monday. The court in a statement said: “When a member state has notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the EU, as the UK has done, that member state is free […]
The Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements to count the polled in the Mizoram Assembly polls on Tuesday, an official said on Monday. Polling for the 40-seat Assembly was held on November 28, with 81.64 per cent of the 774,758 electorate voting. There were 209 candidates. Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra told the media that […]
A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former policeman, described as the country’s “most prolific mass murderer in modern time”, to a second life imprisonment for committing 56 murders, while he is already serving one for killing 22 women, the media reported. Mikhail Popkov, 53, was found guilty of murdering 56 women near the […]
China on Thursday demanded the immediate release of Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of tech giant Huawei, whose arrest could escalate into a major diplomatic incident. Calling Meng’s detention a “rights abuse”, Beijing urged both Ottawa and Washington to clarify their reasons for the action. She was arrested in Vancouver on Saturday and […]
The British High Commission on Thursday sought consular access to Christian Michel, who was extradited from the United Arab Emirates. The CBI said it had received the request. The agency said Michel was being questioned “round the clock”. “The CBI has a lot of material to confront him (Michel),” an official source said. Michel is […]