Israel’s Transport Minister wants to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City and name a station next to the Western Wall after US President Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz said he wanted to honour the US president for his decision to recognise the city as Israel’s capital, BBC reported on Wednesday. The Western Wall is […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has asked Russia to ease violence in eastern Ukraine over a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the US State Department has said. During their phone talk on Tuesday, Tillerson underscored the US concern with the rising violence in eastern Ukraine and asked Russia to lessen the […]
Arab League Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Hossam Zaki has said the pan-Arab organisation is optimistic about achieving progress on the situation in war-torn Yemen. “In spite of the difficult situation in Yemen and the humanitarian crisis there, we are optimistic that progress could be achieved in the Yemeni file next year,” he said on Wednesday, […]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that the wartime sexual slavery issue of “comfort women” cannot be resolved by a 2015 agreement with Japan. Moon’s comments came a day after Seoul’s Foreign Ministry confirmed a secret deal in the 2015 agreement, Xinhua news agency reported. The government in Seoul then under impeached President […]
The Australian government has spent more than $8 billion on weapons and military equipment from the US in the past four years, a report has found. More than half of the money was spent on Information Technology (IT), telecommunication, broadcasting, engineering and research contracts, Xinhua news agency reported. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) analysis, […]
A senior UN official has said that children waiting to be evacuated from a besieged rebel-held area of the Syrian capital city of Damascus, were being used as bargaining chips, the media reported on Thursday. UN special envoy to Syria Jan Egeland told the BBC on Wednesday night that rebels had supposedly agreed to release […]
The Spanish government has approved a series of measures aimed at preventing gender-based violence, an issue which has left 47 women dead there so far in 2017. The measures would include improving on help and protection provided to victims, carrying out awareness and education campaigns and providing professional training, Efe news reported. Coordination between courts […]
Healthy buying in metals, capital goods and healthcare stocks buoyed the key indices of the Indian equity market during the early morning trade session on Thursday. According to market analysts, broadly positive Asian markets supported the key indices upward movement. At 9.35 a.m., the 30-scrip S&P BSE Sensex, which had closed at 33,911.81 points on […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who saw his salary and perks jump 47 per cent to almost $13 million in 2017, will now fly on private aircraft even for personal travel for “security and safety reasons”. According to a new shareholder proxy statement from Apple, the board of directors has approved that Cook will fly on […]
Myanmar extended curfew orders in northern Rakhine state for two more months to ensure further security, stability and rule of law, media reports said on Wednesday. The Maungtaw District Administration said the order took effect from Monday. There will be a ban on assembly of more than five persons and going outside from dusk to […]