Beijing, June 28 (IANS) Over 1,200 employees of a Chinese company have been evacuated from the war-torn Iraqi city of Samarra and moved to Baghdad, the Chinese government said Friday. The workers belong to the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) that is constructing a power plant in Iraq’s Salahudin province. They were trapped in Samarra, some […]
Los Angeles, June 28 (IANS) An upcoming Oasis exhibition in the band’s hometown has been cancelled. Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 launched in London in April, this year and was due to open in the group’s native Manchester, England next month, reports contactmusic.com. However, the show, which features a variety of memorabilia from the rockers’ career, […]
Bucharest, June 28 (IANS) A court Friday rejected an appeal of the Romanian president’s younger brother, following which he will have to remain in custody for a month. Bucharest’s Court of Appeals rejected an appeal of President Traian Basescu’s brother Mircea Basescu and ordered him to remain in custody up to 30 days, Xinhua reported. The […]
Nairobi, June 28 (IANS) A new universal Sustainable Development Agenda will be launched next year after the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday. The UN chief added that governments will be expected to append their signatures to the new mandate that will help solve problems that bedevil communities […]
Beirut, June 28 (IANS) Damascus Friday rejected the Lebanese government’s suggestion of setting up refugee camps for displaced people along its borders with Syria. The rejection came after Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil met ambassadors of the five permanent member states earlier in the day and discussed the possibility of setting up refugee camps along its […]
Baghdad, June 21 (IANS) Iraq’s Sunni militant groups have seized a large part of a key city near the Syrian border after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces Saturday in the country’s western province of Anbar, security sources said. The militants, including those who are linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an […]
Kabul, June 21 (IANS) The Afghan election commission Saturday announced that it is delaying the release of the result of the presidential election runoff held June 14. “I am saying that announcing partial results will be delayed for one or few days,” Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, chairman of the election commission, told a press conference here. He […]
Islamabad, June 21 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday ordered blocking of roaming facility of Afghan subscriber identity modules (SIMs) of cellphones to curb anti-state and criminal activities of terrorists in the country, officials said. Security officials said militants frequently use mobile phones to carry out terrorist attacks and that Afghan mobile phones are also […]
Washington, June 21 (IANS) Amid reports that more than one million Iraqis have fled their homes as Sunni militants continued their advance towards Baghdad, US President Barack Obama has again asked Iraqi leaders to come up with a political solution. Because “if they don’t, there won’t be a military solution to the problem”, Obama told CNN […]
Washington, June 19 (IANS) Eminent Indian plant scientist, Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, has been named winner of the 2014 World Food Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in the improvement of wheat crop. Rajaram, who is now settled in Mexico, is credited with increasing world wheat production by more than 200 million tons in the years […]