US President Donald Trump has said he is open to the possibility of negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme. “We’re going to see what happens with North Korea. That’s all I can say. We’re going to see what happens. We’re totally prepared for numerous things,” Donald Trump told reporters on Friday at […]
Twitter has turned over to the US Senate 201 profile names of accounts associated with alleged Russian effort to meddle in the presidential election last year. The handover took place this week, Xinhua quoted US media reports saying on Friday. It was part of the social networking service’s effort to aid in the Russian probe. […]
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked the deadlocked Security Council to push the Myanmar government to allow the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh to return home in safety and with dignity. Speaking to reporters after he had briefed the Security Council on Friday, Annan said that the returning refugees should not be sent […]
A day after the US and Israel announced they were withdrawing from the Unesco alleging anti-Israel bias in the organisation, it elected Audrey Azoulay, a French-Jewish woman of Moroccan descent, as its next Director-General. In the final round of voting by Unesco’s Executive Board on Friday at its headquarters in Paris, Azoulay defeated Hamad bin […]
Digital technology can play a key role in fighting poverty, which can have disastrous consequences like fomenting armed conflicts and refugee crises, Indian lawmaker Santosh Ahlawat said here on Thursday. A member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Ahlawat, who is part of the Indian delegation to the current session of the General Assembly, said […]
The toll from the devastating wildfire in the US state of California has risen to 21 even as around 8,000 firefighters continued to struggle to bring the raging blaze under control, officials said. The flames have destroyed some 3,500 structures and consumed nearly 170,000 acres, according to the latest figures from Cal Fire, the state […]
Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS) have signed a series of deals to expand economic and security cooperation within the Russia-led organisation. The agreements were reached during a summit of CIS leaders on Wednesday, chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Russia’s southern resort city of Sochi, Xinhua news agency reported. According to […]
US President Donald Trump has nominated Kirstjen Nielsen, an aide to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, for the position of secretary of Homeland Security. The announcement came after several US news outlets reported the appointment on Wednesday and earlier reports said Trump rejected several politicians for the job, Xinhua news agency reported. Nielsen, […]
US President Donald Trump has said if talks to reform North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) fail, he could envisage a US-Canada trade pact, excluding Mexico. The US president said if there was no deal on the NAFTA, it would be terminated. He was speaking at the White House on Wednesday with visiting Canadian Prime […]
Myanmar’s de factor leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for speeding up measures for humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, resettlement and development in the conflict-torn Rakhine state, Citing Myanmar News Agency, Xinhua reported on Thursday that at a coordination meeting held at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, Suu Kyi […]