Seoul, May 29 (IANS) Lebanese Ambassador to South Korea Jad Saeed El-Hassan was killed in a car accident Thursday, a media report said. El-Hassan’s car crashed into the back of another vehicle in central Seoul at around 12.08 p.m., Xinhua reported. The accident occurred while the diplomat was being taken to a hospital.
London, May 29 (IANS) Know why your kitten asks for more food as the mercury drops and chill settles in? They too, like humans, need comfort food in the winter. Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, research has found. “Cats, like many humans are more […]
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) Chinese hospitals would add more beds to cope with an expected baby boom as a result of the country’s loosened one-child policy, an official said Thursday. The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) will promulgate a set of measures to boost the capacity of health institutions to cope with the annual […]
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) At least two soldiers were killed and three injured Thursday in a landmine blast in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province, a media report said. The landmine was planted along a roadside in Nosher Fort, Dawn online reported.
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China’s stock index futures opened higher Thursday with the contract for settlement in June, the most actively traded, opening 12.4 points higher at 2,175.4. The contract for settlement in July went up 10 points to open at 2,163. The September contract opened 13 points higher at 2,170, and the December contract gained […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone the completion of the deportation policy review until August, was received with criticism by activists and scepticism by Republicans. “Now isn’t the time to be playing politics with immigration enforcement or our national security,” Michael Steel, spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, said Wednesday. […]
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) Five Hindu children were kidnapped from Pakistan’s Balochistan province by unidentified armed men, media reported Wednesday. The children aged between five to ten years were abducted late Wednesday from Dera Allah Yar area while coming back from school, Dawn online quoted an official as saying. The kidnappers shifted the children to Sindh, […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has laid out a new doctrine of using “military force unilaterally” without permission when its own interests are at stake, but turning to “collective action” when Washington is not directly threatened. America would still lead using “military force unilaterally if necessary”, he told graduates at the US Military […]
Moscow, May 29 (IANS/EFE) Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris June 5, a day before attending a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings operation in World War II. “The two leaders will discuss major international and bilateral issues, including the crisis in Ukraine,” Russian presidential […]
Madrid, May 29 (IANS/EFE) Chemists Avelino Corma Canos of Spain and Mark E. Davis and Galen D.Stucky of the US will share the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the foundation that bestows the prizes in the name of Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe has announced. The three men are specialists in the […]