Emphasising on the significance of the #MeToo campaign, a US tourist, who had complained of molestation during her vacation in Goa in a Facebook post, has thanked the police for swiftly arresting the suspect, hours after she uploaded her travails on social media. In a new post on the social networking site, the victim, who […]
A bullish US President Donald Trump has proclaimed a “new American moment” as he delivered his maiden State of the Union speech. In his address to Congress on Tuesday from the Capitol Hill, he told lawmakers: “There has never been a better time to start living the American dream.” Addressing the joint session of Congress […]
The Pakistan Army resorted to overnight heavy shelling and firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. Using small arms, automatics and mortars, they targeted military and civilian facilities in nearly a dozen areas of the Balakote sector late on Tuesday, Defence Ministry sources said. “The Indian positions retaliated effectively. Firing exchanges continued […]
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) expects that Russia will target the US mid-term elections later this year, a media report said. Speaking to the BBC, Mike Pompeo said there had been no significant diminishing of Russian attempts at subversion in Europe and the US. The US intelligence community has said that it […]
Pyongyang has cancelled one of the joint events it had agreed to hold with Seoul following a “historic” meeting earlier in January, and has blamed the South Korean media for it. In a fax on Monday, Pyongyang cancelled the celebration of the joint cultural performance, scheduled for February 4, accusing the South’s media of encouraging […]
Three Dutch banks and the Dutch tax authorities were hit by cyberattacks on Monday, media reports said. It is unclear who is behind the so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Rabobank, the Netherlands’ second largest lender, had a failure that lasted about three hours on Monday morning. Customers had no access to mobile and […]
Alex Azar was sworn in on Monday as the new secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). During a swear-in ceremony at the White House for Azar, President Donald Trump said that the new HHS head will lead the country’s effort to “confront the national emergency of addiction and death due […]
US President Donald Trump said that his State of the Union (SOTU) address, slated on Tuesday night, will cover “a lot of territory,” including immigration and trade. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said on Monday he’ll talk about what he touted as “great success” of the stock market and tax cuts passed […]
The House Intelligence Committee has voted to make public a Republican memo that reportedly shows abuses by the FBI and Department of Justice in launching the Russia probe against US President Donald Trump. Disregarding DoJ’s warnings that the action would be “extraordinarily reckless”, the Republicans voted on Monday, hours ahead of Trump’s State of the […]
A committee representing the largest faction of Syria’s armed opposition has announced here in Austria that it would not participate in next week’s Syrian peace conference in Sochi, Russia. “The decision has been made to not go to Sochi,” a spokesperson for the opposition High Negotiations Committee told Efe on Friday following the conclusion of […]