GLEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE: US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused China on Saturday of stealing commercial secrets and “huge amounts of government information,” and of trying to “hack into everything that doesn’t move in America.” Clinton’s language on China appeared to be far stronger than that usually used by PresidentRead More

NEW DELHI: On eve of a United Nations vote that condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza, sources say Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a call from his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the issue. The Israeli PM is understood to have spoken to some other world leaders as well. On Friday,Read More

ISMAILIA: Egyptian warplanes killed 25 Islamist militants in North Sinai on Saturday, security sources said, as the Egyptian president visited the province after a major escalation of the conflict there. The sources said the air strikes hit militant targets near the town of Sheikh Zuweid, destroying weapons and explosives caches.Read More

ATHENS: In the five months since he came to power vowing to deliver his country from years of biting austerity, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has kept Greece and Europe guessing. For some he is a master strategist who has called the bluff of Greece’s creditors by giving the people theRead More

LONDON: Britain will pay silent homage on Tuesday to the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings, with thoughts inevitably also turning to the 30 Britons killed in Tunisia last month in a horrific reminder of the Islamist threat. In the 10 years between the two attacks, Britain has beefedRead More

ATHENS: In a historic, rushed referendum today that looks too close to call, indebted Greece is voting whether to accept worsening austerity or back the government’s rejection, in a gamble that could see it crash out of the euro. Across the country of 11 million people — on far-flung AegeanRead More

NEW DELHI: CPI(M) today demanded that the contents of the 10-year India-US defence framework agreement, signed last month, be made public. In a letter to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said the last such agreement between the two countries in 2005 was “available in the publicRead More

NEW DELHI: The AAP on Sunday said the Supreme Court must oversee the SIT’s probe into the Vyapam scandal in Madhya Pradesh after a television reporter covering it died under mysterious circumstances. “It is sad that one of our journalist friends has died while reporting the Vyapam scam,” Aam AadmiRead More

NEW DELHI: The Centre today said that a “very fair inquiry” should be conducted to put to rest all doubts over the mysterious death of TV journalist Akshay Singh while covering the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh even as Congress wanted a CBI probe into the case. “Since various issuesRead More

EW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday greeted Malawi and Comoros ahead of their National Day on July 6. In his message to the Malawi President Peter Mutharika, Mr Mukherjee said he was confident co-operation between “our two countries will continue to grow to the mutual benefit of our people.Read More