Tag: United States

Jerusalem: Israel has said it will join the US in pulling out of the UN’s cultural organisation Unesco, after US officials cited “anti-Israel bias”. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the US decision as “brave and moral”, a statement said, BBC reported on Thursday. The agency is known for designating world heritage sites such as […]

London: Millions of users across the world, especially in Europe and the US were left snapped when the popular photo-sharing app Snapchat crashed globally for several hours. According to independent website Down Detector that monitors web outages, thousands of users reported problems with sending snaps, receiving snaps login issues and connection problems late on Monday, […]

San Francisco: US-based web communication service provider Disqus has revealed that it suffered a security breach in 2012 that involved the data of 17.5 million users. Hackers allegedly stole data including snapshots of usernames, associated email addresses dating back to 2007, as well as sign-up and last login dates in plain text, Engadget reported on […]

Stockholm: Three American scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for unravelling secrets of how the body’s internal clock or circadian rhythm works — a discovery that will help doctors understand the mechanism behind sleep patterns, hormone release, blood pressure and body temperature. Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. […]

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday said it would appeal against a US court order in a lawsuit filed by an American firm for damages on the alleged misuse of its trade documents. “The company plans to defend its position before the trial judge, as it did not misuse or derive any benefit from […]

Washington: US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price resigned on Friday, said the White House. Price offered his resignation earlier Friday and President Donald Trump accepted, White House Press Secretary said in a statement. “The President intends to designate Don J. Wright of Virginia to serve as Acting Secretary, effective at 11.59 p.m. […]

New York: The devastating 2011 Japanese tsunami brought nearly 300 species to the shores of Hawaii and the west coast of the US, new research has found. At its tallest point, the tsunami towered 125 feet over Japan’s Tohoku coast and swept millions of objects out to sea, from small pieces of plastic to fishing […]

Pyongyang: Some 4.7 million North Koreans have volunteered to join the ranks of the military, a state-media report said on Thursday. The figure consisted of “students and workers” including 1.22 million women who in the past six days have been asked to join the ranks of the Korean People’s Army, the Rodong Sinmun daily report said. […]

Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Foreign Ministry on Thursday banned its citizens from travelling to Pyongyang due to escalation in tensions in the Korean peninsula. “This decision is taken in view of the escalation of tensions in the Korean peninsula and related developments arising from missile tests,” the ministry said. It added that the travel ban […]

Tripoli: Libya’s interim government on Wednesday announced it would ban entry of US citizens into Libyan territory in response to a decision by Donald Trump to suspend the entry of Libyans. The eastern government called the move by the US a “serious escalation” targeting Libyans, accusing the country of placing Libyans “in the same place […]

Kabul: US Defence Secretary James Mattis paid a surprise visit to Kabul on Wednesday and pledged his country won’t abandon Afghanistan. Hours after he touched down, the Taliban launched a rocket attack on the Kabul airport. Mattis was speaking at a joint press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “We will […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s pick for Alabama’s Senate race has lost the state’s Republican primary to a firebrand Christian conservative. Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore defeated Senator Luther Strange in the state’s Republican Senate primary runoff election on Tuesday, delivering a blow to Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who backed […]

Washington: Washington D.C. police on Monday said that they found at least nine weapons including assault-style weapons in a former police officer’s car after stopping him for urinating near the White House. The man, identified as 37-year-old Timothy Joseph Bates from the southern US state of Tennessee, is facing charges that include illegal possession of firearms, […]

Damascus: The US has sent large shipments of military gears to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help them in the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria’s, the SDF said on Sunday. The large quantities of weapons aim to help the SDF in their fight to completely clear Raqqa from IS, said […]

Washington: The US flew bombers near North Korea’s coast on Saturday, an action the Defense Department said was meant to send a clear message to Pyongyang about the country’s military options. “This mission is a demonstration of US resolve and a clear message that (President Donald Trump) has many military options to defeat any threat,” Pentagon […]