Ministers from China and New Zealand met here on Friday to discuss climate change, and experience and expertise in the field, a media report said. After the bilateral talks, New Zealand Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett said : “China is a key player in the global response to climate change and the implementation of China’s […]
Nearly 200 people demonstrated in front of the White House as part of the “Day without Immigrants” movement against the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump, a media report said. In an effort to show Trump that the work of immigrants is necessary for the “prosperity” of the country, Mexicans, Salvadorans, Hondurans and Colombians, […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would resign if Senator Antonio Trillanes IV can prove that he had, at one time, $40.06 million worth of bank deposits, a media report said on Friday. “If Trillanes can prove his allegation that I have amassed pesos illegally or if that bank account under my name has […]
US President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary condemnation of his critics, complaining he inherited a “mess” and slamming media reports that his campaign was constantly in contact with Russia as “fake news”. Trump held a news conference on Thursday that lasted an hour and 15 minutes, where he displayed a sense of anger and grievance […]
Two new protests in France against alleged police brutality and impunity for law enforcement officials resulted in disturbances and dozens of arrests, the French media has reported. Both demonstrations on Wednesday — one in Paris and the other in Rouen — were sparked after two incidents one in February and the other in 2016, came […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly will visit Mexico next week, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced. The two chiefs “will meet with various federal government officials”, the ministry said on Wednesday, adding it would release more details of the agenda in coming days, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
he Manhattan US Attorneys office is conducting a criminal investigation into Fox News, informed sources told ABC News. Judd Burstein, an attorney representing former Fox News personality Andrea Tantaros, said during a hearing on Wednesday that one of his clients had received a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the use of […]
A Russian spy ship sits 30 miles off the US coast of Connecticut, according to an American defence official. This is the farthest north the Russian spy vessel has ever ventured, the official told CNN on Wednesday. The Leonov, which conducted similar patrols in 2014 and 2015, was off the coast of Delaware, but typically […]
Around 9,000 soldiers from the Brazilian Army were deployed here ahead of a potential police strike, the Ministry of Defence announced, a media report said on Wednesday. Minister of Defence Raul Jungmann told a press conference on Tuesday that the soldiers would patrol here and the nearby cities of Niteroi and Sao Goncalo until February […]
Days after Twitter revealed its fourth-quarter earnings that missed company’s revenue estimates, CEO Jack Dorsey has bought $7 million worth of Twitter stock, media reports said. According to a report in Recode on Tuesday, the documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Dorsey made two separate purchases — he bought about $1 million […]