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  • US Defence Secretary Mattis to retire at February-end

    Washington, US President Donald Trump has said Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is to retire at the end of February. Mattis will “be retiring, with distinction”, after having served the administration as the defence chief for the past two years, Trump tweeted on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. “During Jim’s tenure,[Read More…]

  • NASA’s InSight lander places first instrument on Mars

    Los Angeles,  NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian[Read More…]

  • Hezbollah vows to continue resistance against Israel

    Beirut,  Hezbollah’s Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has said resistance is the only way to confront Israel’s aggression and violations in the region. “When the resistance and its people and its will are present, Israel cannot achieve its goals in the region and it cannot exist among us in the[Read More…]

  • Netanyahu, Trump discuss Iranian military’s presence in Syria

    Jerusalem,  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he held a phone call with US President Donald Trump over Iranian military’s presence in Syria. The call came a day after Trump announced the US decision to withdraw forces from the war-torn country as the Islamic State (IS) militant group had[Read More…]

  • Former US president Barack Obama dons Santa hat to cheer sick kids

    Washington ,Former US President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to the Children’s National Medical Center here, bringing with him a sack of presents for the young patients. The 44th President was given a rock star’s entrance as he entered the hospital, with his swagger giving way to dance moves as[Read More…]

  • Award winning German reporter sacked over ‘invented’ reports

    Berlin, German news magazine “Der Spiegel” has sacked an award-winning staff writer after accusing him of inventing details and quotes in numerous stories. Der Spiegel said Claas Relotius’s actions were committed “intentionally” and “methodically”. An investigation into a story by Relotius about immigration and the US-Mexican border revealed that he[Read More…]

  • Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal

    Washington: Washington DC’s top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post. It accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping[Read More…]

  • Brazilan chief justice reverses ruling that favoured Lula

    Brasilia: The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court has revoked a ruling made hours earlier by one of his colleagues that could have led to the release from prison of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Jose Antonio Dias Toffoli issued the judgment on Wednesday in response to a[Read More…]

  • US begins withdrawing troops from Syria, claims victory over IS

    Washington: The Donald Trump-led US administration announced that it has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) without revealing any detailed timetable. “We have started returning US home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign,”[Read More…]

  • US dollar falls amid Fed’s rate hike decision, stronger euro

    New York: The US dollar dipped as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point, paring some of the sharp losses of the greenback in the previous sessions. Following the Fed’s decision to raise its benchmark overnight lending rate, the greenback extended gains but still settled at a[Read More…]

  • Trailblazer director Penny Marshall passes away at 75

    Los Angeles, Penny Marshall, star of US TV series “Laverne and Shirley” and director of hit films “Big” and “A League of Their Own”, has died at the age of 75, her publicist has said. She was 75. Marshall died of complications from diabetes on Monday at her home in[Read More…]

  • Late US President George H.W. Bush secretly sponsored Filipino child

    Washington, Former US President George H.W. Bush, who passed away in November, has sponsored a seven-year-old boy in the Philippines for 10 years under a pseudonym, a nonp-rofit who connected them has revealed. Through Compassion International that uses churches to help children in poor communities around the world, Bush sponsored[Read More…]

  • Outgoing US Ambassador Nikki Haley gets slammed for hostility towards Palestine

    United Nations,  Outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has come under heavy criticism from Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN Riyad Mansour for her hostility towards the Palestinian people. Haley, who is stepping down December end, gave her last statement on the Israel-Palestinian issue asking both sides[Read More…]

  • Late human rights activist Asma Jahangir wins UN Human Rights Prize for 2018

    United Nations,  Late lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir has been awarded the UN Human Rights Prize for 2018. Her daughter Munizae Jahangir received the prestigious award on behalf of her mother. The award is given to individuals and organisations in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights. Asma[Read More…]

  • Top Indian-origin executive to head Workplace by Facebook

    San Francisco,  Facebook has elevated its senior Indian-origin executive Karandeep Anand to head Workplace, the company’s two-year-old enterprise communication tool. Anand, who was earlier Head of Product for Facebook Marketplace and Payments services, would handle the Workplace product team and report to Julien Codorniou who is its Vice President. “I’m[Read More…]

  • British Airways to resume flights to Pakistan after 10 years

    London: British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan from June 2019 after a period of 10 years, the airline announced on Tuesday. “Direct flights from London Heathrow to Islamabad’s new airport to start in June,” said British High Commissioner Thomas Drew in a video on Twitter. “A further boost to[Read More…]

  • Mueller releases memo summarising FBI interview with ex-NSA

    Washington, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has released a January 2017 memo detailing the FBI’s interview that month with Michael Flynn, a moment that led to a high-profile criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser. According to the memo released on Monday night, Flynn in the interview lied[Read More…]

  • New Zealand to hold referendum on recreational marijuana use

    Wellington,  New Zealand will hold a referendum in 2020 to decide on the legalisation of recreational marijuana, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced on Tuesday, a week after Parliament gave the green light to its use for medicinal purposes. “We need to fine-tune some details, but we are informing the Election[Read More…]

  • Ex-FBI Director slams ‘shameful’ Republicans

    Washington,  Former FBI Director James Comey has slammed the Republicans for not speaking out against President Donald Trump’s attacks on the probe agency, following his second round of questioning at a closed-door congressional interview. “Somebody has to stand up and speak for the FBI,” CNN quoted Comey as saying on[Read More…]

  • Yemen ceasefire goes into effect in strategic port city

    Sanaa,  A ceasefire between Yemen’s warring parties went into effect at midnight on Tuesday in the strategic port city of Hodeidah. The ceasefire was reached on December 13 in Stockholm after a round of UN-sponsored talks — the first direct talks in more than two years between representatives of Yemen’s[Read More…]

  • John Cena’s favourite Transformer was Optimus Prime

    London,  Wrestling star and actor John Cena says Optimus Prime was his favourite Transformer as a child. The “Bumblebee” actor admitted while he “should” pick the title character from the new blockbuster prequel – in which he plays evil Sector 7 agent Jack Burns, reports femalefirst.co.uk. In an interview to[Read More…]

  • UN members adopt Global Compact on Refugees

    United Nations,  An overwhelming majority of the UN member states on Monday voted in favour of the Global Compact on Refugees, affirming international solidarity and cooperation for refugee protection and host community development. The compact on refugees, aimed to reduce the burden on host nations, received 181 votes in favour[Read More…]

  • Mimicking parrot befriends Alexa, places orders from Amazon

    An African grey parrot Rocco has reported learned how to use owner’s smart speaker Alexa to play music and even placing orders from Amazon. The parrot has attempted to order lightbulbs, ice cream and a kite. This is the same parrot which was kicked out of the National Animal Welfare[Read More…]

  • Miss Universe 2018: Philippines bags crown, India fails to make it to Top 20

    Bangkok, India’s Nehal Chudasama failed to make it to the Top 20 of the Miss Universe 2018 pageant, where Catriona Elisa Gray from Philippines pipped 93 contestants from around the world to emerge the winner — as chosen by an all-women jury. India had pinned high hopes on Nehal, 22,[Read More…]

  • Saudi rejects US Senate’s move on Khashoggi’s murder

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Monday rejected recent moves by the US Senate over the murder of The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Senate on December 13 voted to recommend ending American military assistance to the Saudi-led operation in Yemen, and accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement[Read More…]