President Donald Trump accused China on Wednesday of attempting to meddle in the Nov. 6 congressional elections in the United States in retaliation for the tariffs his administration has imposed on Chinese goods. “Regrettably, we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in November, against my administration,” […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on world leaders to embrace globalisation shunning natural patriotism that gets warped into aggressive nationalism leading to confrontations. The British leader’s address came a day after US President Donald Trump said: “We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism” at the UNGA. May […]
US President Donald Trump has again claimed that his predecessor Barack Obama was close to starting a war with North Korea, saying that if he “wasn’t elected, there would have been a war”. “President Obama thought you had to go to war. You know how close he was to pressing the trigger,” Trump said at […]
Google on Thursday turned 20 and celebrated it with a nostalgic video feature of interesting searches through the years — from holidays, events, achievements and people to the best dance moves, food to eat, planets and languages. Google has answered all our queries since it came into being in 1998 as a research project by […]
The ongoing trade war between the US and China has escalated after American President Donald Trump’s administration’s new 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods kicked in on Monday, spanning thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts. China retaliated immediately with new taxes of 5 […]
The US State Department said on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had spoken over phone with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea. According to a statement issued State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, Pompeo and Kono on Thursday discussed “the ongoing pressure campaign to achieve the final, fully […]
The UN Security Council has reiterated the importance of protecting civilians in armed conflict and requested the secretary-general to report on this matter every 12 months. In a statement on Friday, the council expressed outrage that civilians continue to account for the vast majority of casualties in situations of armed conflict, Xinhua news agency reported. […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the UN and Kofi Annan (the late former UN secretary-general) were inseparable and it is impossible to say where one ended and the other began. Guterres on Friday led a list of diplomats, staff and family members speaking in the UN General Assembly Hall at a memorial tribute to […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that the Trump administration will take “a serious of actions” against the Venezuelan government in the coming days. Speaking at an interview on Friday with Fox News, Pompeo said that “I think you’ll see in the coming days a series of actions that continue to increase the […]
After facing a backlash over reports in July that third-party app developers can read your Gmail, Google has once again defended its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts. According to a CNNMoney report on Thursday, Gmail lets third-party developers integrate services into its email platform. “Developers may share […]