United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said that warring factions in Yemen have agreed to a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Reuters reported. A pro-government alliance, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have been fighting the Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in 2016, and Hodeida city is their […]
NEW DELHI: The #MeToo movement that took the Bollywood and the media industry in India by storm topped popular photo-sharing platform Instagram’s advocacy hashtags with 1.5 million usage in 2018, the company said on Thursday. In “Instagram Year In Review 2018” report, the Facebook-owned company said that #timesup (used 597K times and #marchforourlives (used 562K […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May is heading to Brussels on Thursday to attend an European Union council meeting after Conservative MPs backed her by a majority of 83 in a secret ballot on Wednesday night. “Hard” Brexiteers triggered a no-confidence vote in her leadership but MPs voted 200 to 117 in favour of the Prime […]
Scotland’s devolved parliament partially overstepped its constitutional reach when it passed a Brexit bill designed to ensure it kept all its powers after Britain leaves the European Union, the British Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. Britain’s government asked the Supreme Court in April to rule on whether bills on regional powers after Brexit, passed by […]
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries likes to look united. That’s evident when OPEC leaders meet in Vienna at the end of each year to decide how much oil its members will aim to produce the next year. There is always a show of togetherness and the appearance of the quasi-cartel’s ability to move […]
NEW DELHI: Defence ministers of India and Russia held intensive talks Thursday on deepening defence ties and joint manufacturing projects, including the Kamov-226 helicopters, naval frigates and projects related to land systems, the Defence Ministry said. In a meeting of the 18th India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC held here, the two sides […]
Islamabad: The European Union (EU and five other foreign missions in Islamabad Thursday expressed “deep concern” over Pakistan’s move to terminate the operation of the 18 international non-governmental organisations (INGOs in the country. According to the media reports, the interior ministry in October ordered them to cease their operations and leave the country within two […]
Turkey: Ankara train crash leaves nine dead, 86 injured International pti-PTI | Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2018, 21:36 [IST] Ankara, Dec 13: Nine people were killed and nearly 90 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive in the Turkish capital on Thursday, officials said, becoming the latest rail disaster to hit the country. […]
The man “inadvertently pulled the trigger” when he fell off a ladder. Ouch. (Photo: Reuters A US man was repairing a home in Derby, in Kansas state, this week. He totally nailed it. No, no. Not the repair. He shot himself. In the head. With a nail gun. Kansas authorities had to rush him to […]
A leaked 7-minute phone conversation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence has been reported in Bangladeshi media which shows how Pakistan might be interfering in the internal matters of Bangladesh. The leaked conversation, which WION has accessed, shows how Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain who is also a […]
🎶 SINCE U BEEN GONE 🎶 “Mom please sto-” 🎶 I CAN BREATHE FOR THE FIRST TIME 🎶 pic.twitter.com/4b5DQ7SzdE — Maryland Basketball (@TerrapinHoops December 12, 2018 This is an incident that surely many would relate to – both as a parent and as a child. During a basketball game in Maryland, USA, Mandy Remmell belted […]
DETROIT: Federal prosecutors in Detroit are seeking nearly 11 years in prison for an Indian man convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman during a commercial flight. Prabhu Ramamoorthy is expected in federal court Thursday in Detroit. He was jailed after being accused of molesting a woman with his hands while she slept on an […]
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Wednesday ruled that President Sirisena’s dissolution of Parliament was illegal. The verdict was delivered by a seven-judge bench, seven weeks after Sri Lanka plunged into an unprecedented political crisis, arguably the biggest since the civil war ended a decade ago. For over a month now, the country has […]
New Delhi: A day after winning a crucial vote of confidence, British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed that she will quit before next UK election scheduled for 2022. On Wednesday, May in leadership won a vote of confidence with 200 votes in her favour as against the 117 votes cast in her opposition, out of […]
The United Kingdom will continue with its ‘golden visa’ programme for now, the government said on Wednesday, a week after it had decided to suspend the fast track emigration route for rich investors from India and other countries over concerns over money laundering by high net worth individuals. Last week’s announcement to halt the visa, […]
London: British Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that she will step down before the country holds its next scheduled national election in 2022. Arriving at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, May said: “I think it is right that another party leader takes us into that general election.” Late Wednesday, May survived a […]
–> ‘I don’t expect an immediate breakthrough but what I do hope is that we can start to work as quickly as possible on the assurances that are necessary,’ British Prime Minister Theresa May said. (Photo: File Brussels: British Prime Minister Theresa May warned she expects no “immediate breakthrough” on her Brexit deal at Thursday’s […]
Sirisena’s decision to dissolve Parliament was illegal: Sri Lankan SC International oi-Vikas SV | Published: Thursday, December 13, 2018, 18:16 [IST] Colombo, Dec 13: The Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve Parliament last month and called the move ‘illegal’, said reports. Sri Lanka is going […]
A report by Public Safety Canada — the arm of the Canadian government tasked with protecting Canadians and maintaining peace — has listed Babbar Khalsa International (BKI and the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF as terrorist organisations Khalistani extremism continues to remain a matter of “concern”, says the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat […]
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve Parliament on October 26 was illegal, AFP reported. A seven-member bench unanimously gave the verdict, saying that the president’s decision was unconstitutional. Security was heightened around the Supreme Court and a special task force deployed before the Supreme Court’s order, […]
Dubai: A four-year-old boy drowned after he got trapped in a washing machine filled with hot water at his home in Ajman, the police said. The boy was with his grandmother and uncle at their family villa in Al Rawda when he sneaked his way into the laundry room. He got inside the front-load washing […]
DUBAI: A four-year-old boy drowned after he got trapped in a washing machine filled with hot water at his home in Ajman, the police said. The boy was with his grandmother and uncle at their family villa in Al Rawda when he sneaked his way into the laundry room. He got inside the front-load washing […]
British prime minister Theresa May won the confidence of her parliamentary party 200 to 117 votes on Wednesday night but the scale of rebellion left her politically weakened, without changing the reality of her inability to get her current Brexit deal through parliament. As many as 117 Conservative MPs expressed lack of confidence in their […]
Modi now has to outsmart Yogi in Hindutva game after Assembly poll results, says Pak editorial International oi-Shubham Ghosh | Published: Thursday, December 13, 2018, 16:58 [IST] Islamabad, Dec 13: The results of the recently held Assembly elections in the five Indian states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram marked a departure from […]
At least seven people died and more than 40 were injured after a high-speed train collided with an engine and then rammed a pedestrian bridge near Turkey’s Ankara on Thursday morning. The accident occurred around 6.30 am local time (9 am Indian time when the train was travelling from Ankara to Konya in western Turkey, […]