Washington: Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, charging the unfazed US President with abuse of power and obstructing Congress, making him the third president to face the ignominy of a bruising Senate trial, months before he stands for re-election. After some 11 hours of fierce arguments between Opposition Democrats and […]
London: The UK government on Thursday confirmed plans to introduce a new visa for qualified doctors and nurses from countries around the world, including India, to address workforce shortages in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS). Prime Minister Boris Johnson had made references to such a new so-called NHS visa on the election campaign trail, […]
Islamabad: Pervez Musharraf’s corpse should be dragged to the central square in Islamabad and hanged for three days if the former military dictator dies before his execution, a special court in Pakistan which sentenced him to death said on Thursday in a bizarre judgement. The three-member special court bench sentenced 76-year-old Musharraf to death in […]
Delhi: Days after the conclusion of the longest climate change negotiations in Madrid, the UN climate chief has admitted that the talks did not result in an agreement. The disagreement among the developed and developing nations was on guidelines for a much-needed carbon market — an essential part of the toolkit to raise ambition that […]
New York: The US does not see its relations with India as one where it can give ultimatums, according to a senior State Department official, who pointed out that India is a democracy where policies go through a due process. Asked by a reporter if the US had sought assurances from India on restoring normalcy […]
London: In yet another shock for Google, France’s competition watchdog has slapped it with a $166 million for abusing its position in the online search advertising market. The French competition watchdog said it considers that the Google Ads operating rules imposed by Google on advertisers are established and applied under non-objective, non-transparent and discriminatory conditions. […]
Islamabad: The US has retained Pakistan among the countries that tolerate religious discrimination, according to a State Department statement. The determination, made on December 18, includes Myanmar, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan among the states that have been re-designated as “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC)”, Dawn news reported on […]
Washington: The top Democrat in the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, has written to President Donald Trump inviting him to give his State of the Union speech on February 4 amid the partisan impeachment battle. The annual speech would come during or soon after his trial in the Senate, where he is likely to be acquitted, […]
Havana: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has appointed the country’s first prime minister in more than 40 years – the tourism minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz. The post of prime minister was scrapped in 1976 by the then revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. It was reinstated under the rules of a new constitution for the communist-run island passed […]
Tegucigalpa: At least 18 inmates were killed and 16 others injured following a violent clash between prisoners at a jail in Honduras on Friday. The fight in the northern port city of Tela, some 190 km from the capital Tegucigalpa, came several days after the government declared a state of emergency in its prison system, […]
Islamabad: A global watchdog for terror financing has sought more clarifications and data from Pakistan on actions taken by it against madrassas belonging to the banned outfits, weeks after Islamabad submitted a report to the Paris-based body detailing steps taken by the country to curb terrorism and money laundering. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), […]
Wellington: The death toll from New Zealand’s White Island volcanic eruption earlier this month has risen to 19, the police said on Monday. The bodies of two victims have not been recovered, a police officer said. A police spokesman said that they had been informed of the latest death of another person late Sunday in […]
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for their role in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, the public prosecutor said on Monday. In a press conference, spokesman for the public prosecutor Shalan al-Shalan explained that three other convicts received a total of 24 years in jail for […]
Kabul: Seven Afghan army soldiers were killed and six security personnel were wounded after Taliban insurgents attacked a joint military camp in the country’s northern Balkh province on Tuesday, the defence ministry confirmed. “Unfortunately, the terrorists attacked a joint military base of Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Khili Guli area […]
Paris: For the first time in 213 years there will be no Christmas mass at Notre Dame here. Since 1803, the iconic gothic cathedral has hosted a Christmas mass but the devastating inferno of 15 April has put the tradition on hold, Efe news reported. Instead the mass officiated by Dean Patrick Chauvet has moved […]
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