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US woman pleads guilty for working as Ch | New York, April 18 (IANS) A US woman who worked for Air China at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport here has pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of the Chinese government by placing unscreened packages on a flight from New York to Beijing. | 18-Apr-2019 |
6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Taiwan | Taipei, April 18 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near the Taiwanese city of Hualien on Thursday. | 18-Apr-2019 |
28 killed in Portugal island accident | Lisbon, April 18 (IANS) At least 28 people were killed and another 28 injured when a bus crashed on Portugal's Madeira Island, authorities said. | 18-Apr-2019 |
Nepal's first ever satellite launched in | Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) Nepals first satellite has been launched into space, which will soon start rotating around the Earths orbit to collect information about the countrys topography and Earths magnetic field, officials said here on Thursday. | 18-Apr-2019 |
39 killed as rain wreaks havoc across Pa | Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) At least 39 people were killed and 135 injured as rain continued to wreak havoc across Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said on Wednesday. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Sohail Mahmood takes charge as Pakistan | Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) Former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood on Wednesday took charge as the country's new Foreign Secretary and called on Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss issues related to the foreign policy of the country. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Macron wants Notre Dame rebuilt within 5 | Paris, April 17 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he wants to see fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral rebuilt "more beautiful than before" within five years even as experts say its reconstruction could take decades and involve substantial challenges. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Indonesia goes to polls to elect new Pre | Jakarta, April 17 (IANS) Millions of Indonesians queued up outside voting booths on Wednesday to elect the next President of the world's third largest democracy as incumbent leader Joko "Jokowi" Widodo faces off against longtime rival and former Army general Prabowo Subianto. | 17-Apr-2019 |
Masood Azhar issue heading towards settl | Beijing, April 17 (IANS) China on Wednesday said the issue of blacklisting Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar at the UN panel was heading towards a settlement and asked the US not to force through its own resolution on the matter. | 17-Apr-2019 |
26 die as torrential rains, windstorm la | Islamabad, April 16 (IANS) At least 26 people were killed and scores of others injured as rains and windstorm wreaked havoc across Pakistan over the last two days. | 16-Apr-2019 |
Bangladesh asks actor Ferdous to return | Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) In wake of a controversy over famed Bangladesh actor Ferdous Ahmed canvassing for a Trinamool Congress candidate in West Bengal, the Deputy High Commission for Bangladesh has asked him not to take part in the election campaign in India and return to his country. | 16-Apr-2019 |
Moved by Indians' messages after blaze: | New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on Tuesday said he was "deeply moved" by the outpouring of messages from India following the massive fire at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral -- the 850-year-old Unesco world heritage landmark in Paris. | 16-Apr-2019 |
Notre Dame fire under control, main stru | Paris, April 16 (IANS) A devastating fire that engulfed the Notre Dame, the 850-year-old Unesco world heritage landmark in Paris, was brought under control on Tuesday, while the Cathedral's main structure as well as its two towers has been saved, the city's fire brigade has confirmed. | 15-Apr-2019 |
US approves renewal of Taiwan military t | Washington, April 16 (IANS) The US State Department has approved a possible deal with Taiwan to renew a $500 million training programme in America for Taiwanese F-16 pilots and maintenance crews. | 15-Apr-2019 |
North Korea marks founder's 107th birth | Pyongyang, April 15 (IANS) North Korea on Monday celebrated the 107th birth anniversary of its founder Kim Il-sung with festivities. | 15-Apr-2019 |
IMF may delay Pakistan visit as bailout | Islamabad, April 15 (IANS) The visit of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Islamabad for finalising a bailout package for Pakistan may be delayed as both sides are still engaged in an intense discussion on the proposed programme, official sources told Dawn news. | 15-Apr-2019 |
American activists' stories in Bharatnat | San Francisco, April 15 (IANS) A popular California-based South Indian classical dance group will tell the stories of American activists Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King by employing the stylistic vocabulary of the Bharatnatyam dance form. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Democrat Buttigieg launches 2020 preside | Washington, April 15 (IANS) Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and is also openly gay, has announced that he was running for President in 2020 and proclaimed his hometowns revival was the answer to sceptics who ask how he has the "audacity" to see himself in the White House. | 15-Apr-2019 |
Teen charged with making death threat to | Wellington, April 13 (IANS) A teenager in Northern Ireland has been charged with making a social media death threat to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after the Christchurch terror attack in which 50 people were killed. | 14-Apr-2019 |
'Hard' deadline set to release Trump tax | Washington, April 14 (IANS) House Democrats have issued Donald Trump's administration a "hard" deadline of April 23 to turn over the President's tax returns, pushing back against Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's scepticism over their request for the private records. | 14-Apr-2019 |
Sri Lanka President calls for unity duri | Colombo, April 14 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday called upon Sri Lankans, living in the island and overseas, to work unitedly for the upliftment of the nation. | 14-Apr-2019 |
Three killed in Nepal chopper-plane coll | Kathmandu, April 14 (IANS) At least three people were killed on Sunday when a plane collided with a parked helicopter while taking off from an airport in Nepal's Lukla town, a major gateway to Mt Everest. | 14-Apr-2019 |
IS claims responsibility for attack in P | Islamabad, April 14 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at a vegetable and fruit market in Pakistan's city of Quetta. | 14-Apr-2019 |
US will win 5G race: Trump | Washington, April 13 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that the US government will free up wireless spectrum and build better infrastructure to take a leadership in 5G, the next-generation wireless network. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Internet spreads hate speech like wildfi | United Nations, April 13 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that hatred speech has been spreading like wildfire through the Internet, saying attention should be given to "physical aggressions" as the recent attacks against the Jewish, Christian or Muslim centres. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Man sets fire to jacket outside White Ho | Washington, April 13 (IANS) A man in an electronic wheelchair-type scooter set his jacket on fire near one of the entrances to the White House and was hospitalized with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, the US Secret Service has said. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Kim says open to talks if US has 'right | Seoul, April 13 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is willing for another meeting with US President Donald Trump to reach an agreement on denuclearization if Washington has the right attitude, the state media reported on Saturday. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Afghan security forces kill 27 Taliban m | Jalalabad (Afghanistan), April 13 (IANS) Taliban's massive offensive to capture Afghanistan's Shirzad district in the Nangarhar province has been repulsed and the militant group fled away after leaving 27 bodies behind, the provincial government said in a statement on Saturday. | 13-Apr-2019 |
Maldives ruling party secures 'highest w | Male, April 12 (IANS) The ruling Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) has won the parliamentary elections by securing the highest win -- 65 seats in the 87-member Parliament -- in the island nation's history, the Elections Commission announced on Friday. | 12-Apr-2019 |
6.8 magnitude quake strikes off central | Jakarta, April 12 (IANS) A powerful quake of 6.8 magnitude rocked off Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on Friday, the country's meteorology and geophysics agency said, triggering a tsunami warning that forced panicked people to evacuate their homes. | 12-Apr-2019 |
China suspends website for black hole co | Beijing, April 12 (IANS) Chinese authorities have suspended the website of the country's largest stock images provider after it was found to have put its copyright mark on the first ever photo taken of a black hole, state-owned China Daily newspaper reported on Friday. | 12-Apr-2019 |
Assange held, charged with conspiracy in | Washington/London, April 12 (IANS) The US on Thursday charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with one count of conspiracy to hack a computer to disclose classified information that "could be used to injure the the US", which is linked to the 2010 release of reams of secret American documents, just hours after British authorities arrested him in London. | 11-Apr-2019 |
Pakistan seeks from India more info in P | Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) Pakistan has handed over more questions to the India High Commissioner on the Pulwama attack dossier, Foreign Ministry Affairs spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on Thursday. "We hope India will answer these questions soon," Faisal told reporters here. | 11-Apr-2019 |
400,000 EU nationals apply to stay in UK | London, April 11 (IANS) More than 400,000 European nationals have applied to secure their stay in the UK after Brexit, the Home Office has revealed. | 11-Apr-2019 |
Talks only way forward for India, Pakist | Islamabad, April 10 (IANS) Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that the only way for Islamabad and New Delhi to move forward was through dialogue. | 10-Apr-2019 |
UN stops printing press releases, goes p | United Nations, April 10 (IANS) The United Nations has announced that it has started going partially paperless by stopping printing of press releases. | 10-Apr-2019 |
Trump, Saudi Prince discuss Iran, human | Washington, April 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have discussed issues relating to regional security, human rights, and Iran. | 10-Apr-2019 |
UN ignores Imran Khan's claim on Kashmir | United Nations, April 10 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's assertion that India was going to "annex" Kashmir has failed to evoke any reaction from the UN's leadership. | 10-Apr-2019 |
NY mural of astronaut, Gandhi talks abou | United Nations, April 10 (IANS) The high-tech future of green jobs and the Gandhian virtue of the dignity of work meld their messages on a six-storey high mural commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the centenary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). | 10-Apr-2019 |
Akhara moves SC against land release | New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Nirmohi Akhara, one of the parties that got one-third of the disputed land in the Ayodhya temple title dispute, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday opposing the Centre's plea to release most of the 67.7 acres of acquired land, saying it cannot be given to anyone by the government. | 09-Apr-2019 |
Dhaka seeks US help for Rohingyas' retur | Dhaka, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) Bangladesh has sought help from the US in pressurising Myanmar to offer safeguards for the return of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled the country since August 2017. | 09-Apr-2019 |
6 miners killed in Afghan coal mine coll | Aybak (Afghanistan), April 9 (IANS) Six miners were killed and another injured when a part of a coal mine collapsed in Afghanistan's Samangan province, a local official said on Tuesday. | 09-Apr-2019 |
Trump fires US Secret Service director | Washington, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) US Secret Service (USSS) director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, according to multiple administration officials. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Israel election: PM Netanyahu seeks reco | Jerusalem, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) Israelis are set to vote in their country's most closely fought general election in years, media reported. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Pakistan PM's secretariat section catche | Islamabad, April 8 (IANS) A section of the the Pakistani Prime Minister's Secretariat caught fire here on Monday leading to the evacuation of the staff in the building, officials said. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Royal Commission to probe Christchurch a | Wellington, April 8 (IANS) A Royal Commission of Inquiry will begin probing the March 15 Christchurch terror attacks that left 50 people dead in two mosques on May 13, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. | 08-Apr-2019 |
ISS infested with bacteria like gym on E | Washington, April 8 (IANS) A team of NASA researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist has found the surface inside the International Space Station (ISS) is littered with microbes just like in a gym or office on Earth -- threatening astronauts' health at the orbiting laboratory. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Trump to host Egypt's el-Sisi at White H | Washington, April 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump is set to welcome his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday for the second time at the White House, the media reported. | 08-Apr-2019 |
UK opposition expects more Brexit talks | London, April 8 (IANS) With just five days to go until the UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) on Friday, the opposition Labour Party has said that it expects to hold further talks with Prime Minister Theresa May's government to find a Brexit deal. | 08-Apr-2019 |
Libya PM vows to defend Tripoli, rebels | Tripoli, April 7 (IANS) Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj on Sunday vowed to defend Tripoli as rival forces were advancing towards the capital city from the east. | 07-Apr-2019 |