The man who is believed to have executed an attack that killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day has been detained in a police operation, together with four other people, as per reports in local media. Reportedly, the suspect was identified as Abdulkadir Masharipov, had operated[Read More…]
The chief of the United Nations atomic agency on Monday said that Iran has complied with a key commitment of its nuclear deal with six world powers by removing sensitive equipment from a underground Uranium enrichment site. Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday that Iran[Read More…]
At least five people have been shot dead and nine injured after a gunman reportedly opened fire at a music festival at a popular tourist resort. Shots were fired at the Blue Parrot club in Playa Del Carmen, an area popular with foreign tourists, on the closing night of the BPM[Read More…]
Dating back to colonialism, the western powers have extracted resources from the poor. They have capitalized themselves by sucking the man power and deep pockets of the slave labours. However, the rich countries give more than $125bn (£102bn) in aid each year, to the poorer nation giving a solid evidence to their[Read More…]
Chinese State TV said that it would take country’s motorised troops 48 hours and its paratroops 10 hours to reach India’s capital if war broke out, According to a tweet from @spectatorindex. The news got hillarious response in Twitter. Twitterati mocked that Chinese People’s Liberation Army couldn’t even reach at[Read More…]
Palestinian Authority has opened an embassy at the Vatican on the eve of a peace conference meant to revive long-stalled talks with Israel. Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday to open a Palestinian embassy in Vatican City. “We are very grateful about the role that the Holy[Read More…]
In a moving open letter to US president’s daughters Sasha and Malia Obama, former first daughters Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager shared fairly an advice to the young girls as they join another rarified club — one of former ‘First Children’. Both the Bush sisters reminded Obama girls of[Read More…]
Exxon Mobil CEO and US President Elect Donald Trump’s pick for his ‘Secretary of State’, Rex Tillerson, has told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China will be prohibited to build more islands in the South China Sea. Neither will they be allowed to access the islands it has[Read More…]
During his first presser since being elected, US president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday called online media outlet BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage”. Trump’s scathing attack came after BuzzFeed published the unverified dossier that alleges Russia has compromising information on Donald Trump. Buzzfeed, who decided to creatively respond to the[Read More…]
Congressman Mike Pompeo, US president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA, on Thursday has listed out Russia, Iran and Islamic State as major threats to the United States. The Congressman said that Mike said that Russia is “asserting itself aggressively” by invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and “doing[Read More…]
Just a day after Sushma Swaraj threatened to deny visas to Amazon’s officials if the company didn’t take doormats depicting the Indian flag off its site, the e-commerce giant has written to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj expressing regret at hurting Indian sensibilities. Amazon finally apologized and has pulled the[Read More…]
NATO confirmed Thursday that air raids in Afghanistan by US forces targeting Taliban have killed 33 Afghan citizens. Twenty-seven other civilians were wounded in the village of Boz in Kunduz city, a statement from US Forces Afghanistan said on Thursday. The incident on November 3 saw US and Afghan troops carrying[Read More…]
President-elect of USA, Donald Trump has said in his first press conference after the victory, that alliance with Russia and its President Vladimir Putin would be assets in fighting the Islamic State terror organization. He also called ISIS the “number one” issue of concern for the state. Blaming the former[Read More…]
US president-elect Donald Trump unleashed his ire on the two media outlets that first published details of a dossier on Tuesday that claimed he was being blackmailed by the Russian government after they obtained video of him committing a sex act with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. In his[Read More…]
Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who broke the news that the World War II had started, died in Hong Kong at the age of 105. Hollingworth, who was born in Leicester in 1911, was the first to break the story of Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered the World War[Read More…]
US President Barack Obama began his farewell address amid deafening chants of “four more years.” The President in his departure speech, warned against everything from anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-women, anti-gay, pro-Russian to pro-rich sentiments that President-elect Donald Trump has publicly backed. Obama took up the stage in Chicago as the crowds[Read More…]
Bomb blast across three Afghan cities including Kabul killed around 50 people on Tuesday. The bloodshed shattered a comparative pause in violence as Taliban insurgents intensified a deadly winter campaign. About nine people were killed when explosives hidden in a sofa exploded inside the governor’s compound in southern Kandahar during[Read More…]
At least 21 people were reportedly killed and nearly 45 others wounded in twin explosions that rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, officials told media. The attack occurred in a crowded area during the afternoon rush hour as workers were returning home. The first explosion, carried out by[Read More…]