Aden, April 22 (IANS) Four Yemeni soldiers were killed Monday and three wounded during clashes with gunmen in southeastern province of Hadramout, military sources said. The fighting occurred during an army raid of a house of ” terrorist elements” in the coastal city of Mukalla, Hadramout’s provincial capital, Xinhua quoted the sources as saying on […]
Abuja, April 22 (IANS) Pakistani president Mamnoon Hussain has indefinitely postponed a three-day official visit to Nigeria, citing some pressing concerns in his country, officials said Monday. Hussain’s visit was initially billed to begin Monday, but embassy officials in Nigeria said the Pakistani leader, while seeking to postpone the visit, did not actually give details […]
Los Angeles, April 22 (IANS) Actress Kirsten Dunst insists she’s not worried about money and would rather take on roles that she’ll enjoy. The “Melancholia” star has an extensive portfolio of film roles under her belt and claims that, although her mother often used to help her to decide which parts would be best for […]
London, April 22 (IANS) Singer Ashley Roberts has become addicted to tea since moving to Britain. The former Pussycat Doll never used to drink the hot beverage before moving here from the US permanently last year. But she become so engrained in the British lifestyle and culture that she now finds herself craving for a […]
Washington, April 22 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Russia to “take concrete steps” to help implement the agreement aimed at defusing tensions in Ukraine. In his telephone talk with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Kerry urged Russia Monday to publicly call on “separatists to vacate illegal buildings and checkpoints, accept amnesty, […]
United Nations, April 22 (IANS) Approximately 80 percent of the chemical weapons materials have been shipped out of Syria or destroyed, a UN spokesperson said Monday. Sigrid Kaag, the special coordinator of the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations, had issued a statement announcing the […]
Rome, April 22 (IANS Fabio Capello has planned to retire from football after the 2018 World Cup tournament, Xinhua reported Tuesday. The current Russia head coach, preparing for the Brazil World Cup this summer, confirmed that he will not take any offer after his contract expires in four years. “I will be 71 after the […]
Havana, April 22 (IANS) At least five people were killed and 42 injured when a passenger vehicle overturned Monday in Cuba’s Holguin province, the country’s National Information Agency (NIA) said. The accident occurred when a dairy truck had a slight friction with the passenger vehicle on the road between the cities of Moa and Holguin, […]
Quito (Ecuador), April 22 (IANS) Ecuador and Costa Rica signed an agreement to delineate maritime boundary between the two nations here Monday, capping over three decades of negotiations on the matter, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said. “The signing represents a valuable example of understanding and the beginning of a stage of cooperation,” Xinhua quoted […]
United Nations, April 22 (IANS) Top UN officials have cautioned that Syria’s newly announced presidential elections have a risk of undermining efforts to achieve a political solution to the country’s three-year-old conflict, a UN spokesperson said here Monday. “The secretary-general and the Joint Special Representative, Lakhdar Brahimi, have repeatedly warned that the holding of elections […]