US President Donald Trump has said there has been a lot of progress in the Middle East since he announced last month that he would withdraw his country from the international accord on Iran’s nuclear programme. “A lot of progress has been made in the Middle East. A lot. And it really started with the […]
An eight-year-old boy from Pakistan mistakenly crossed the Line of Control (LoC) into Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. The boy was apprehended by the Army in Digwar area in Poonch on Sunday evening. He will be handed over to the police and would be returned to Pakistan after completion of formalities, police said. Two Pakistani […]
Australia skipper Tim Paine has rated England’s Jos Buttler as the “best white-ball wicketkeeper-batsman in the world” and even went on to hail the Englishman as better than India’s World Cup winning former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Buttler is in the form of his life having single-handedly rescued England from a precarious position with a […]
The Finance Ministers of the Eurozone, the Eurogroup, has reached an agreement that will put an end to Greece’s third bailout program, the French Finance Minister said. The agreement will end the eight-year debt-relief program for Greece, in which the country received 300 billion euros in three financial assistance programs as agreed in 2010, 2011 […]
The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, a media report said. Beds will be for migrant children who crossed the border unaccompanied, as well as those separated from parents, the BBC reported. The moves follow US President Donald […]
The White House has announced a comprehensive plan to reorganise the US federal government, including reforming the food stamp programme and merging the departments of education and labour so as to bring education and job training together. The reform is aimed to improve and streamline the federal government but will not be in a type […]
The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) has voted to allow the press to create political satire about candidates in the October general elections, as well as to express itself in favour or against the politicians. This rule had been included in a change of electoral laws in 2009, but this was suspended by the STF in […]
The two Koreas held talks on Friday where they discussed organising a reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and other humanitarian issues, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry. The talks started at around 10 a.m. at a hotel on Mount Kumgang on the North’s scenic east coast, reports Yonhap News Agency. South Korea’s […]
A United Nations report published on Wednesday said in 2016, an estimated 4.2 million people died as a result of high levels of ambient air pollution. “In 2016, 91 per cent of the urban population worldwide were breathing air that did not meet the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines value for particulate matter (PM […]
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray has requested the US to immediately reunite a girl with Down’s syndrome and her brother with their family. Mexico on Wednesday demanded that the Donald Trump administration take all necessary action to ensure an immediate reunion of the child and her brother with their mother and the family, Xinhua news […]