Lucknow, May 12 (IANS) Voting began in Uttar Pradesh Monday for the remaining 18 Lok Sabha seats, including Varanasi, officials said. A total of 328 candidates are in the fray in the concluding round of the parliamentary polls. Balloting is taking place at 31,483 polling stations where over 146,000 staff have been deployed. Over three crore […]
Aden, May 12 (IANS) At least 13 soldiers and an intelligence officer were killed while several wounded in separate attacks in Yemen Sunday. A Yemeni intelligence officer was gunned down by unidentified men Sunday night in the country’s Lahj province, security and medical sources said. The assailants opened fire with automatic rifles on Tawzia Hassan Ahmed’s […]
Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Actor George Clooney was “so close” to his pet pig he didn’t want to have children, says his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Daily. The actor-filmmaker recently got engaged to Amal Alamuddin. Daily believes his change of heart with regards to love and marriage has come after he finally got over the death of […]
Berlin, May 12 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande Saturday described a planned referendum in eastern Ukraine as illegal. The referendums planned to be held in several cities in eastern Ukraine are illegal, Xinhua quoted a joint statement of the two leaders as saying as Hollande visited Germany’s port city of Stralsund. […]
Amman, May 12 (IANS) Jordan and Saudi Arabia signed $232 million grant agreements Sunday, the state media reported. Jordanian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Ibrahim Saif said the amount will be used to finance projects in the field of water, irrigation and infrastructure, Xinhua reported. The grant is part of $1.25 billion grant that Saudi […]
London, May 12 (IANS) The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Sunday said in a statement that it “regrets” the referendum in Ukraine. Commenting on referendums held Sunday in Ukraine, a FCO spokesperson claimed to be “regrettable,” adding that Ukrainians will have “a proper opportunity to express their democratic choice in the forthcoming presidential elections” in […]
Brussels, May 12 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande Sunday offered to hold a summit in Paris with Nigeria and its neighbours to tackle the issue of Boko Haram’s abductions, Xinhua reported. Hollande made the remarks while visiting Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. Over 200 girls of the community Chibok in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria were abducted in […]
Cape Town, May 12 (IANS) All South Africans should unite behind a common goal of moving the country forward now that the divisive political battles have ended with the conclusion of the 2014 general elections, the government said Sunday. South Africans voted Wednesday to elect the new National Assembly and provincial legislatures. The government applauds all […]
Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Actress Elizabeth Olsen, known for her role in “Godzilla”, may soon tie the knot with her fiancé Boyd Holbrook, but she is not thinking about starting a family soon. The 25-year-old is planning to get married Holbrook, 32, in the near future, but not thinking about children, reports eonline.com. “I’m not […]
Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Chris Brown did not admit he assaulted the alleged victim in his Washington D.C. criminal trial, says his lawyer. The 24-year-old singer has been forced to spend 131 days behind bars after he admitted Friday in a Los Angeles court that he violated his probation by getting into a fight in […]