After several years of protests, authorities have finally banned the sale of dog meat in the Yulin festival, which is celebrated on June 21 every year in the city. The Yulin government will prohibit the sale of dog meat in restaurants, markets and other commercial centres from June 15, Efe reported. Activists from China’s Duo […]
The US government on Thursday admitted that drug trafficking and the criminal groups is Washington’s problem, not just Mexico’s. The administration said that it is necessary to implement a plan to reduce domestic demand for narcotics, Efe reported. “America must also confront the reality that we are the market. But for the seemingly endless demand […]
US President Donald Trump welcomed his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, to the White House, officials said. This was Trump’s first meeting with the South American leader following his government’s hard-won peace deal with the the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), reports NBC News. Trump called the effort to end the 52-year conflict that […]
Thousands of people took to the streets across Brazil demanding the resignation of President Michel Temer, who is the target of a corruption investigation. Organised mainly via social media, the largest protests on Thursday took place in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and the nation’s capital, Brasilia, Efe news reported. Besides Temer’s departure, demonstrators also […]
The US Department of Justice has appointed former FBI chief as special counsel to oversee the investigation of alleged Russian efforts to affect the 2016 election in favour of the US President Donald Trump. Robert Mueller, 72, is a Vietnam veteran and former US attorney who ran the FBI from 2001-2013, Efe reported on Thursday. […]
US President Donald Trump is looking forward to working closely with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in and is willing to make peace with North Korea through engagement if the conditions are right, according to a top Seoul envoy. Trump made the remarks on Wednesday during a 15-minute meeting with special envoy Hong Seok-hyun in […]
President Donald Trump slammed his critics and the “Washington media” while delivering a speech at the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, the media reported. “Over the course of your life, you will find things are not always fair, you will find things happen to you that you do not deserve and not always warranted […]
The White House has denied that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about the Islamic State (IS) terror group to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and claimed the reports as “false”. “The story that came out tonight (Monday night), as reported, is false … At no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed,” White […]
Women have to play a greater role in conflict prevention and resolution and towards this goal India has been training women peacekeepers from around the world, Deputy Permanent Representative Tanmaya Lal told the Security Council on Monday. “There is a need to increase and institutionalise the involvement of women in conflict prevention and resolution,” he […]
Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State militants liberated on Monday a neighbourhood from the group after heavy clashes in the northern part of western side of Mosul, the Iraqi military said. The special forces of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) freed al-Uraybi neighbourhood and raised the Iraqi flag over some of its buildings after killing many […]