Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is holding a 12-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump as support for the latter tumbled in the past month, a poll released on Sunday showed. Clinton enjoys 51 per cent of support among Americans, up by seven points from May, compared to Trump’s support at 39 per cent, […]
Social media giant Facebook has hired a co-founder of Google’s Fibre high-speed internet project to beef up its internet connectivity team. According to tech newssite Re/Code, the social network has hired Kevin Lo as its Director of Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments to help lead Facebook’s partnerships such as Terragraph — a project to bring Wi-Fi […]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is currently suspended from office in an ongoing impeachment process, will provide a written statement in a corruption case where she was called as a witness. Rousseff is taking advantage of an article of the Constitution, which allows those who are called witnesses to provide written statements instead of attending […]
The Chinese government on Saturday announced that it has suspended communications with Taiwan over Taipei’s refusal to recognise the ‘1992 consensus’ of the One China policy that has guided relations between the two territories in recent years. In a statement released by Xinhua news agency, Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that it has not been […]
Investor panic over Britain leaving the EU spread to Wall Street as US stocks nosedived on the opening bell. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down over two percent after the opening bell. “Markets are clearly shocked right now. Up until today, it’s clear they were complacent, wholly optimistic that a vote […]
China on Friday continued to oppose India’s entry to the NSG, saying the global non-proliferation order will collapse if New Delhi joined the group without being a signatory to the NPT. Beijing reiterated that accepting the Non Proliferation Treaty was a must for India to become a member of the elite 48-nation club which regulates […]
North Korean authorities are yet to confirm the suspected test-launch of two missiles on Wednesday morning. The state-run KCNA news agency told Xinhua that it was not aware of the missile launches. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted the Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying that North Korea launched a second missile, which was believed […]
In a move to popularise video streaming feature Facebook Live among its 1.65 billion users, the social networking giant has signed deals with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos, the media reported on Wednesday. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Facebook will pay over $50 million to video creators. Its partners […]
Chinese stocks opened lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.2 per cent to open at 2,872.73 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.23 per cent lower at 10,108.96 points, Xinhua news agency reported. The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, was down 0.29 per cent to open at […]
Argentina and defending champions Chile easily outclassed their respective opponents to enter the semi-finals of the Copa America Centenario football tournament in style. At the Gillette Stadium here late Saturday, Argentina showed ample glimpses of their awesome firepower by overpowering 2011 Copa America finalists Venezuela 4-1 in the quarter-finals. Gonzalo Higuain (8th, 28th minutes) struck […]