At least 300 pilot whales were found dead on Friday in New Zealand after over 400 of them were stranded in the remote Golden Bay in South Island. Sources from the Ministry of Conservation said that it was estimated that a total of 416 whales were beached on Thursday night in a sandy area known […]
A coder hacked into an Amazon gadget designed to instantly order consumer goods for the home and coded it donate $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with every press, a media report said. “I would love to see these become a real product that organisations across the political spectrum could offer,” NBC News […]
US President Donald Trump will welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House on Monday for their first talks, the White House said on Thursday. “President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau look forward to a constructive conversation on strengthening the relationship between our two nations,” Xinhua quoted a White House statement as saying. […]
US President Donald Trump told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will honour the “One China” policy that recognises Beijing as the only legitimate Chinese government, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders spoke by phone on Thursday night, the statement said, their first phone conversation since Trump’s inauguration. “The two […]
Pope Francis released a video shortly ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the annual American football championship game, saying the game is an opportunity to show solidarity and build virtue. “Great sporting events like today’s (Sunday) Super Bowl are highly symbolic, showing that it is possible to build a culture of encounter and a world of […]
US President Donald Trump has agreed to attend the upcoming NATO summit slated to be held in May, after having repeatedly criticised the alliance and having called it “obsolete”, the media reported. Trump spoke with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday evening regarding the US’ “strong support for NATO”, the […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called US President Donald Trump a “fraud” and accused him of falling short of commitments to middle-class voters, pointing to his Cabinet and senior advisers’ ties to Wall Street, the media reported. “This guy is a fraud,” Sanders, also a former presidential hopeful, told CNN on Sunday. “This guy ran for […]
Almost 4,500 people reported cases of pederasty or child sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church in Australia between 1980 and 2015, according to a report released on Monday ahead of a new round of hearings by the Royal Commission. The Royal Commission, which is responsible for investigating the extent of and response […]
A US judge in Seattle has issued a temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven Muslim nations, media reports said. US District Court Senior Judge James L. Robart on Friday granted the injunction at the request of Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office said that the order applies […]
France and the US has reaffirmed their alliance against security threats, a French Foreign Ministry statement said . During a Friday phone conversation with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault stressed the importance of the “historic ties” between the two nations, Xinhua news agency reported. They shared the desire to […]