Dutch police are investigating a threat in Rotterdam and arrested the driver of a Spanish van late on Wednesday. The van with a Spanish license plate was halted between 9 and 10 p.m. local time on the Mijnsherenlaan street, Xinhua news agency reported. The van was checked by the Dutch explosive ordnance disposal service. Around […]
Software upgrade for more than five million diesel cars in Germany is not enough for better air quality, German Environment Ministry and German Environment Agency said on Wednesday. Representatives from the German Transport Ministry, German Environment Ministry, automobile industry association and giant automakers gathered early August in Berlin to discuss the pollution issue of diesel […]
Iraqi security forces on Wednesday retook control of new areas from Islamic State (IS) terrorists on the outskirts of the city of Tal Afar in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said. The Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) forces completely freed the southern part of Kifah neighbourhood at the western edge of Tal Afar after […]
The job approval rating of US President Donald Trump has reached a new low, a Politico/Morning Consult poll showed on Wednesday. The survey said 39 per cent of respondents approve of Trump’s job performance, down from 44 per cent in the same poll a week ago, Xinhua news agency cited the poll findings as saying. […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will visit the US in September to meet President Donald Trump, the Malaysian government said on Thursday. The Malaysian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Razak would undertake a working visit to Washington on September 12, Xinhua news agency reported. “The two leaders are expected to discuss areas of […]
An “alarmingly high” level of arsenic contamination was found in groundwater in Pakistan, putting up to 60 million people at risk of serious diseases including cancer, reveals a US study. The study, published in the American journal Science Advance on Wednesday, examined groundwater samples collected from nearly 1,200 sites from across the country, reports Xinhua […]
The Islamic State (IS) has threatened to carry out more attacks in Spain if the country does not withdraw from an international coalition battling the terror group in the Middle East The extremists made the announcement in a video entitled “The Conquest of Barcelona” released on Wednesday. It featured two men speaking in Spanish, reports […]
Thousands of people were evacuated on Tuesday in parts of south China in preparation for the arrival of Typhoon Hato, set to make landfall on Wednesday. The eye of Hato, the 13th typhoon to hit China this year, was recorded 415 kilometre southeast of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province as of 9 p.m. local time on Tuesday, […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday welcomed “some level of restraint” showed by North Korea with its nuclear programme, seeing a possible pathway to a future talk between Washington and Pyongyang. “We have had no missile launches or provocative acts from the part of North Korea since the unanimous adoption of the UN […]
As thousands of people are fleeing Tal Afar, a city west of Mosul, since a military campaign began on Sunday to retake the city from the Islamic State (IS), UN agencies of health and migration are providing emergency aids to meet their needs. Tal Afar, some 70 km west of the newly-liberated city of Mosul, […]