4th of July is supposed to be filled with lots of fun, but people in Southern California might have a different take now as the region was hit by an earthquake, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, Thursday morning at 10:33 am…
According to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s new draft of labeling regulations, manufacturers of soups, chips, biscuits, juices, and other packaged foods will soon have to show red coding on the front of packets of products with a high amount…
The latest US extension of sanctions is a hostile act against North Korea and a challenge to a historical summit among two countries in Singapore last year, an official of Pyongyang’s foreign ministry said. Last week, the White House extended six executive…
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is obtruding new sanctions on Iran, after stating for days that he chose tightening the pressure on a paralyzed Iranian economy over launching an immediate military strike in reply for what US officials…
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that he would offer US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan open and fair consideration, while the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas refused the proposal. The two leaders were speaking separately about Trump’s plan…
ProteaFire is all but extinguished as South Africa stare at an early ICC World Cup 2019 exit. Having won only one of their six matches (with one being lost to the unpredictable and gloomy English weather), the Proteas are almost at the…
On Tuesday, Canada approved the proposal to extend the western Canadian crude oil pipeline it purchased last year, offering a helping hand to a depressed energy sector, but vexing environmental groups. The expansion activities for the Trans-Mountain pipeline are set to resume…
Over 20 Chinese activists who were involved in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement asked the United Nation’s top human rights body on Monday to an inquiry into Beijing’s fatal crackdown 30 years ago. Wang Dan and 21 others, supported by the Chinese…
The official China Daily reported that Hong Kong’s “fugitive rendition arrangements are purely an internal affair”, and that countries, such as the United States and Great Britain, should have no business in the matter. “Indeed, their sanctimonious posturing is hypocritical, given their…
Now, Narender Modi is the leader with the largest populace mandate in the world. US President Obama, who met Modi in Myanmar during the ASEAN Summit in 2014 had said, “This man has the biggest electoral victory of all of us”. This…
