Islamabad, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a two-day visit to Qatar from Monday at the invitation of the country’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. Khan was expected to hold meetings with the Qatari Emir and Prime Minister to discuss matters of mutual interest. He will also[Read More…]
Beijing, China’s economy grew 6.6 per cent in 2018, the weakest annual performance since 1990, confirming a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy that could threaten global growth, according to official data on Monday. China’s growth in 2018 was down from 6.8 per cent growth in 2017. The country’s economy[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook is set to launch a petitions feature called “Community Actions” that will let users request a change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. According to a report in TechCrunch late Sunday, “Community Actions” will be a petition feature in Facebook’s News Feed and[Read More…]
Bamako, Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad have been killed in an attack by the suspected Islamist militants in Mali, the UN says. Another 25 Chadian troops were injured when the gunmen stormed the UN camp in Aguelhok on Sunday, the BBC reported. The UN said the attack was repelled. The[Read More…]
London: Country music star Shania Twain says she was “awkward” when she first met singer Madonna. On “Today” show, Twain spoke about her introvert nature and recalled her first meeting with Madonna, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “I was awkward with Madonna when I first met her. I understand why it happens (when[Read More…]
Boo, the social media sensation known to his fans as ‘the cutest dog in the world’, died of heart attack on Friday at the age of 12. Boo’s owner, Facebook employee Irene Ahn, said the adorable pup — who has 16 million-plus Facebook followers— started developing medical problems after his[Read More…]
Mexico City: The death toll from a devastating oil pipeline blast in Mexico has risen to 71, officials said. Besides, 76 others also sustained injuries in the explosion in the town of Tlahuelilpan in Hidalgo state, Governor Omar Fayad told the media on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. It is[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence surprised thousands of protesters demonstrating against abortion in a march here by making unannounced speeches. Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, strode onstage to the delighted cheers of a roaring crowd during Friday’s “March for Life” rally, carrying anti-abortion posters[Read More…]
United Nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said there is no timeframe to launch the constitutional committee in Syria, but the work needs to be done as quickly as possible. The UN chief told a press conference at UN headquarters in New York on Friday that Syria needs a constitutional[Read More…]
United Nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for serious talks between the US and North Korea, and for a clear roadmap of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “We believe it’s high time to make sure that the negotiations between the US and North Korea start again seriously, and that[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump has said that he will make a “major” announcement on Saturday about the border and the ongoing partial government shutdown. “I will be making a major announcement concerning the Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border, and the Shutdown, tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3 p.m., live[Read More…]
United Nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed frustration over the lack of progress in Myanmar’s refugee crisis. “I feel enormous frustration with the lack of progress in relation to Myanmar and with the suffering of the people, in particular… people living in Bangladesh in extremely difficult circumstances,” Guterres told[Read More…]
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In a shocking incident, workers from a Chinese company were recently forced to crawl on a road as punishment for failing to hit their year-end targets. The staff were on all fours as they made their way through the busy traffic with a man walking ahead of them holding a flag.[Read More…]
After suggesting that people shouldn’t eat chicken because it will make their ‘kid’s dick small’, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) now claims that going vegan improves your sexual stamina. After Gillette’s ad over toxic masculinity, PETA has injected itself into the conversation its own male-themed advertisement re-imagining genitalia[Read More…]
Albuquerque, New Mexico: On Tuesday, with swearing in as the District 20 representative in the New Mexico House, Democratic member Abbas Ali Akhil became the first Muslim American lawmaker in the history of the southern state. Abbas is an Indian immigrant who has been living with his family in the[Read More…]
Amid the #MeToo era, the worldwide public outcry against sexual assault on women, an elementary-school textbook taught students to wear correct, covered clothes to avoid sexual attacks. The educational material taught girls to be ashamed of their bodies, and shifts the blame from the perpetrator to the survivor of sexual assault. Titled[Read More…]
Beirut, The Islamic State terror organisation on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in a Syrian city under US-backed Kurdish control that killed at least three American troops, according to US officials quoted in a report from the Dow Jones Newswires supplied to EFE. Local media and the UK-based[Read More…]
Washington, With the partial shutdown of the federal government entering its 26th day, Americans’ view on whether to expand the US-Mexico border wall has been more sharply divided along partisan lines, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. Seventy-nine per cent Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say the shutdown[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Indian-American business leader Indra Nooyi, who headed the multinational PepsiCo, is under consideration for heading the World Bank, according to multiple media reports. If she is nominated by US President Donald Trump to be the Bank’s president, she will succeed Jim Yong Kim, a Korean[Read More…]
London, British Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, averting any immediate risk of an early general election. The vote of no-confidence, put forward by the main opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was lost by 325 votes to 306. It meant the[Read More…]
London: The Conservative government of Prime Minister Theresa May survived a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday in the lower house of the UK Parliament. Members of the House of Commons voted 325-306 against the motion brought by the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in the wake[Read More…]
Love it or hate it – Gillette, one of the manliest brands that sells on masculinity, has got people talking about their latest ad – a 30-second video clip with barely a razor in sight. Playing on its 30-year-old tagline “The best men can get,” Gillette has said it will challenge[Read More…]
A video has gone viral on social media showcasing what appears to be, to all intents and purposes, a literal rain of spiders. The clip came from an area known as Espírito Santo do Dourado, about 200 miles northeast of São Paulo, in Brazil where locals spotted the terrifying scenario. The[Read More…]
Washington, The deployment of active-duty US troops at the border with Mexico will most likely be extended through September, the Pentagon has announced. Prior to Monday’s announcement, Pentagon’s border mission had previously been scheduled to end on December 15, and the Defence Department later extended the deployment into January, reports[Read More…]