Apprehensions of families illegally crossing into the US from Mexico reached a record monthly high in October, the first month of the fiscal year, according to new Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. The date published on Friday said the number of family members apprehended in October was 23,121, up almost 39 per cent from […]
India has declared that nuclear energy is vital for meeting the challenge of climate change and suggested supporting efforts to promote its public acceptance amid growing opposition to nuclear power and plans by some countries to phase out their atomic generation plants. “Nuclear power remains an important option to meet the challenges of increased energy […]
The White House has withdrawn the permanent credential from CNN journalist Jim Acosta for confronting US President Donald Trump at a press conference following the mid-term results. The CNN journalist at the White House on Wednesday engaged in a tense tug-of-war with Trump, who after answering several of his questions, said “That’s enough. Put down […]
Afghan forces killed 16 Taliban militants and injured 19 others while evicting them from several villages in Dand-e-Ghori area in Baghlan province, police said Thursday. “The security forces have recaptured several villages including the main base of Taliban rebels over the past four days,” police chief Ekramudin Sari told Xinhua news agency. Dand-e-Ghori was captured […]
The UN has launched a strategy to deal with workplace mental health issues and ways to maintain well-being of its staff by dealing with the stigma attached to it. UN staff struggling with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or other circumstances have reported feeling isolated and ashamed, with no-one to turn to for help, said […]
A train derailed on Tuesday in northern Morocco, killing seven passengers and injuring 125 others, the media reported. The train, which connects northern cities of Casablanca and Tangier, derailed at 10.10 a.m. in Sidi Bouknadel, a small town situated between the cities of Salé and Kenitra, Xinhua reported. Causes of the accident are still unknown, […]
Anna Burns from Northern Ireland has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel “Milkman”. She won the much coveted 50,000 pound award for her timely, troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed by a powerful man. Burns, 56, became the first Northern Irish winner of the award and accepted the […]
Cuba has rejected a human rights “defamatory” campaign staged at a UN event in the New York headquarters denouncing alleged political prisoners situation in the island nation. In a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said this new action was part of a “sequence of declarations” by US high-ranking officials, which showed the […]
Canada has become the second country after Uruguay to legalise possession and use of recreational cannabis. The nationwide market for cannabis opened Wednesday at midnight amid lingering questions about the impact on health, the law and public safety, the BBC reported. Shops in the province of Newfoundland, the most easterly time zone in Canada, opened […]
Missing Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his own death as he turned on the recording function of his Apple Watch before walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, a Turkish daily reported on Saturday. The moments of his “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both […]