Paris, March 22 Recycling the world’s wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while protecting the environment, the United Nations said in a major report today. “Neglecting the opportunities arising from improved wastewater management is nothing less than unthinkable,” said Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO,Read More

London, London has become the cheapest of the worlds major global centres, with the cost of living falling behind that of New York, Paris and Tokyo to its lowest level for two decades, figures revealed on Tuesday. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) world rankings, the fall is almost entirelyRead More

Washington, March 21 US President Donald Trump has questioned the decision of his predecessors to first send the American troops to Iraq and then withdraw them, while assuring support to the war-torn country to maintain stability. “I know Mosul is moving along, but Mosul was ours until we left,” TrumpRead More

Seoul, March 21 Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday apologised to the people as she arrived at the prosecutors’ office to be questioned over corruption allegations that led to her impeachment by Parliament. Park appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in southern Seoul around 9.30 a.m.,Read More

Washington, US President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka is set to get her own office in the White House even after saying that she would not play a formal role in her father’s administration, a media report said. The First Daughter has secured her own office on the West Wing’s secondRead More

Washington,  The US government is barring passengers on Royal Jordanian Airlines flights from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and other electronics in carry-on luggage on certain US-bound flights starting Tuesday, the airline has said in a tweet. The airline on Monday said cellphones and medical devices are excluded from the ban.Read More

Brussels: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg headed for Washington on Monday for the first time since US President Donald Trump was elected, holding talks with senior officials about defeating the Islamic State group, his office said. Stoltenberg will meet US Defence Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday, then meet foreign ministers fromRead More

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger on March 29 the two years of complex negotiations over the UK’s exit from the European Union, it was announced on Monday, nine months after the country voted to leave the bloc. The UK’s ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, formallyRead More

Hanover: Chancellor Angela Merkel today warned that Germany could ban future campaign events by Turkish politicians on its soil unless Ankara stopped “Nazi” jibes aimed at Berlin. Merkel stressed that such insults must stop — “no ifs, no buts” — and that Germany reserved the right to “take all necessaryRead More

Washington: FBI Director James Comey confirmed for the first time Monday that the agency is investigating Russian interference in last year’s presidential election and notably Moscow’s possible collusion with President Donald Trump’s campaign. He also rejected Trump’s claim that predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower in New York, sayingRead More