Rome: Italian energy giant Eni announced a new oil discovery off the coast of Angola which contains 170-200 million barrels of light oil. The Afoxe-1 NFW well, which has led to the new oil discovery, is located in the south-east area of Block 15/06, 20 km west of the recent[Read More…]
New York: The popular bronze statue of the “Fearless Girl” that had been facing Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” for the past 18 months, was moved to its new and permanent location in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The work of Uruguayan-born sculptor Kristen Visbal, the girl will[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday approved the National Strategy for Countering WMD Terrorism, in a bid to counter extremist groups’ attempt to use Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) against the US. According to a statement issued by the White House, the new strategy marked Trump’s “decisive step” to[Read More…]
Manila: Over 1,000 protesters marched in the Philippines capital on Monday and burned an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte on International Human Rights Day. During the protest, civil society groups demanded an end to Duterte’s war on drugs, labour organizations asked for an increase in salaries, indigenous Lumads sought martial[Read More…]
Sydney: Software major Adobe on Monday said James McCready who heads the company’s Japan business is expanding his role to lead the Asia Pacific (APAC) operations as well. McCready, who was appointed the President of Adobe Japan in April this year, has extensive experience leading enterprise and commercial businesses in[Read More…]
Marvel’s fans got disheartened after watching Tony Stark drifting in space in the Avengers: Endgame trailer, and it didn’t look like survival was likely, following which the fans have been pleading with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to bring their hero back to Earth. To everybody’s surprise, NASA has offered help even[Read More…]
The South Pacific island country of Niue which has a mere population of under 1800 has dragged Sweden’s top internet giants to courts. In a suit filed a week earlier at the Stockholm Dist. Court, Niue’ Government has sued the Internet foundation of Sweden over an unfair use of .nu[Read More…]
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with business leaders and trade unions on Monday after a fourth weekend of the violent “gilets jaunes,” or “yellow vest” nationwide protests that have challenged his grip on power. Macron, who will also meet political leaders and local officials, wants to “hear[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump has agreed to a request from Defence Secretary James Mattis to propose a defence budget of $750 billion for the coming year, according to an administration official. Last week, Trump appeared to call the Defence Department budget of $716 billion “crazy” in a tweet. The[Read More…]
Washington: “I can’t breathe,” were the last words uttered by Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed by a Saudi hit squad at the country’s consulate in Istanbul in October, a CNN report said. An informed source, who has read a translated transcript of an audio recording of[Read More…]
Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed on the need to implement decisions against Israel, the US and the Islamic Hamas movement. Abbas was speaking during a meeting at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah with Advisory Council of his Fatah Party, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The official Palestinian[Read More…]
Kabul: A total of 10 militants, including a Taliban key commander Mawlawi Nasratullah, were killed in Afghanistan’s Faryab province on Sunday, an army spokesperson said. The security forces, acting upon an intelligence report, attacked a Taliban gathering in Dawlat Abad district in the wee hours of Sunday, killing 10 rebels[Read More…]
Bejing: “Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, a new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. The findings, based on a survey of young stars in a star-forming region in the constellation Taurus, showed many of them to[Read More…]
Delhi based Dr P K Gupta, accused of using electric shock therapy to ‘treat’ homosexuality, was summoned by a Delhi court for violating the norms. The accused doctor Gupta allegedly considered homosexuality to be a “genetic mental disorder”. Though Dr P K Gupta was de-barred by the Delhi Medical Council (DMC), he was[Read More…]
Paris: Tourist sites, including the Louvre Museum and the Eiffel Tower, in Paris will be closed over the weekend amid fears of further street violence due to “yellow vests” anti-government protests. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the government was deploying 89,000 troops across France — including 8,000 in the capital[Read More…]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has an “anti-Muslim” and “anti-Pakistan” approach and claimed New Delhi rebuffed all his gestures due to the upcoming general elections. “The ruling party (in India) has an anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan approach,” said Khan in an interview[Read More…]
Washington: US trade deficit widened for a fifth consecutive month and reached a 10-year high in October, according to data from the Commerce Department. The total trade gap increased 1.7 per cent to $55.5 billion in October, spurred by all-time high imports, Xinhua news agency quoted the Department as saying.[Read More…]
Katowice (Poland): Developed nations reduced emissions by 13 per cent in 26 years and since 2010 these have decreased by 4.4 per cent, likely due in part to climate actions that more than offset the impact of economic and population growth, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said.[Read More…]
New York: CNN’s offices and studios here were evacuated on Thursday night because of a phoned-in bomb threat. But police and the network have issued an all-clear message saying it was safe. “The NYPD (New York Police Department) has now given us the all clear, and employees have been permitted[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump has planned to nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to replace Nikki Haley as his new ambassador to the UN. Trump is expected to make the announcement Friday morning, informed sources told CBS News. Nauert has been on the short list for ambassador to the[Read More…]
42-year-old neurosurgery physician Tony Adkins from California really believes in the old said phrase “laughter is the best medicine.” Dr Tony believes his foremost duty is to heal his patients and relieve them from pain for which he has come with a unique concept. Army veteran Adkins dance with patients at[Read More…]
After since World War II, Syrian conflict is considered the worst man-made disaster which has killed more than half a million children, women and men. The United Nations has estimated that the war has forced close to five million people flee the country. The healthcare system in the country is in tatters and more than[Read More…]
The small landlocked country of Luxembourg is set to become the first in the world to make all its public transport free. Xavier Bettel, who was sworn in on Wednesday as the Prime Minister of the country for the second term in succession has decided to remove the fares from[Read More…]
Copenhagen: World’s biggest container shipper AP Moller Maersk has announced that it would cut its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050 without using offsets, heralding the prospect of carbon neutral international trade. Maersk is in the group of the top 100 highest emitting companies, so this is a significant announcement.[Read More…]
Washington: World leaders and dignitaries were arriving in the US to pay their respects at the state funeral of former President George H.W. Bush on Wednesday. The body of Bush Senior, which has been lying in state at the US Capitol, will be moved to the National Cathedral later on[Read More…]
