Dozens of South Korean protesters and police were injured in clashes on Thursday during a rally against the full deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile shield. Some 400 residents of Seongju City, who live close to the site where the THAAD system will be installed, clashed with the security forces […]
An internal investigation at Facebook has revealed that fake Russian accounts bought nearly $100,000 of political ads during the 2016 US election campaign. The ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun […]
More than 60 people have died or are feared dead in flooding or circumstances connected to Tropical Storm Harvey, according to local officials on Monday. Medical examiners are in the process of confirming which deaths are related to the historic flooding. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed 29 storm deaths on Saturday, all […]
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) extremists have set ablaze hundreds of houses in villages of northern Myanmar over the last two days, a government committee said on Tuesday. They burned down 50 houses after clashing with the security forces in Aukpyuma village. They set fire to around 120 houses in Ountaw village, Xinhua news […]
US President Donald Trump spoke to two American astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, upon their return from the International Space Station (ISS), the White House said. The President on Monday congratulated Whitson and Fischer for their accomplishments, saying: “They make us all very proud,” reports The Hill magazine. “Exploration has always been at the […]
Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the US state as a rapidly growing Category 4 hurricane named Irma wass expected to make landfall later this week, the media reported. “Hurricane Irma poses a severe threat to the entire State of Florida and requires that timely precautions are taken to protect […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday hailed the Belt and Road project at a BRICS forum here, saying that the initiative has received a good response. India has opposed Xi’s ambitious project, the artery of which — China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) — passes through a part of Kashmir held by Pakistan. Speaking at the […]
The US is considering stopping “all trade” with any country doing business with North Korea, US President Donald Trump has said in a tweet. The US President’s threat on Sunday came after North Korea’s official media has announced that the country had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb capable of being carried by an intercontinental ballistic […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said although “radical Islamists” are perpetrating acts of terror in Europe, she still believed that “Islam belongs to Germany”. Merkel made the remarks on Sunday at the TV duel with Martin Schulz, chancellor candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), her major rival in the upcoming federal elections, as refugee […]
Governor Greg Abbott of the US state of Texas has said the bill for reconstruction after Hurricane Harvey could be as high as $180 billion. He said on Sunday the damage was worse than that caused by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, BBC reported. Meanwhile, the head of the government’s disaster management […]