The mission of the European Union in Ramallah and Jerusalem on Friday expressed its concern after the recent arrests of Palestinian minors by Israeli authorities and the death of a teenager shot by Israeli forces. In a statement, the mission said the EU was troubled about the circumstances of the recent arrests of Palestinian minors […]
The organisation representing African countries has demanded that US President Donald Trump apologise after he reportedly called nations on the continent “shitholes”. The group’s mission in Washington DC on friday expressed its “shock, dismay and outrage” and said the Trump administration misunderstood Africans, the BBC reported. The US leader made the alleged remark in a […]
A lawyer for US President Donald Trump arranged to fork over $130,000 in hush money to a former porn star a month before the 2016 election over an alleged affair, a new report has said. Popularly known as “Stormy Daniels” had a “hookup” with Trump the married future President in 2006, the New York Post […]
Five wrestlers and a driver were killed in a major road accident in Sangli district of Maharahstra early on Saturday, police said. The accident took place around 1 a.m. when an SUV carrying the grapplers rammed headlong into an oncoming tractor carrying sugarcane. Five others, including wrestlers, were injured in the accident and they were […]
It was a misty Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met Office has predicted a clear day ahead. “The morning was misty with shallow fog. The day will mainly be clear,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. […]
The cold wave sweeping through Jammu and Kashmir further tightened its grip on the valley even as people in Jammu prepared to celebrate the Lohri festival on Saturday. Lohri marks the season’s turnaround. Camp fires would be organised in Jammu, around which people would gather in the evening to welcome comparatively warmer days ahead. People […]
Donald Trump paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, one of the principal advocates of the civil rights movement, at a time when the US President is facing accusations of racism for his alleged insult of Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries. Trump refused to answer questions about the controversy during an event on […]
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in scholarship to fund 1,000 undocumented immigrant students, a scholarship fund has announced. The scholarship fund said, TheDream.US, which is the country’s largest scholarship programme for Dreamers, will give the grant, the largest sum ever awarded […]
A youth was killed and two others injured when their car hit a tree here early Saturday, police said it was yet another case of drunken driving. The accident occurred on Road Number 78 in the posh Jubliee Hills area. There were four youth in the car that was being driven at a very high […]
Dozens of Activists held a rally here on Thursday to protest against the Guantanamo Bay detention camp while urging an end to “indefinite detention.” At Lafayette Square in front of the White House, some protesters were wearing orange jumpsuits and bags over their heads as others were holding banners that carry slogans urging the closure […]