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Jersey City: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used the word “rape” on Wednesday when discussing past allegations of sexual misconduct involving former President Bill Clinton, further escalating his rhetoric on the subject. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination and Trump’sRead More
Seoul: It was a bad day at the office for one unfortunate employee of South Korea’s weather service on Wednesday, after a mistakenly-sent fax triggered an earthquake alert. The message warning of a 6.5-magnitude quake was part of a five-day disaster response exercise and should never have been faxed. InternationalRead More
Washington: As early as 1964, the US intelligence community had concluded that India was in a position to develop nuclear weapons, a declassified State Department report said, citing frequent change of the fuel core of the Canada-supplied reactor at Trombay. “The Indians are now in a position to begin nuclearRead More
Beijing: China may have modified its controversial three decades-old one child policy this year replacing it with two children, but President Xi Jinping has said restrictions on child births will continue as “tensions” between population, resources and environment will not change. China must adhere to the basic state policy ofRead More
Cairo: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board has vanished from radar, the airline said on its verified Twitter feed on Thursday. A tweet on the airline’s official account said flight MS804 left Paris at 23:09 pm local time (2109 GMT), “heading to Cairo (and)Read More
Maiduguri, Nigeria: A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their school in Chibok town to return from captivity in the insurgents’ forest lair, officials said on Wednesday. Soldiers working togetherRead More
Washington: Asserting that LGBT rights are human rights, US President Barack Obama today called for ending discrimination against the community globally. “Our nation is committed to the principle that all people should be treated fairly and with respect,” the US President said in a statement on the occasion of InternationalRead More
Washington: Ahead of his key address at a joint meeting of the US Congress next month, the Barack Obama government has asserted that it is looking forward to continue to work with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on all fronts to strengthen ties between two nations. Talking about the Prime Minister’sRead More
United Nations: The United Nations has raised only 16 percent of the $1.8 billion needed to help war-torn Yemen, a “shockingly low” level of response to a funding appeal, a senior UN aid official said Tuesday. Returning from a fact-finding mission to Yemen, John Ging said the crisis was worsening,Read More
Vienna: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad did not abide with efforts to establish a truce across Syria country, alternatives would need to be looked at. “We believe we should have moved to a ‘Plan B’ a long time ago,” Adel al-Jubeir toldRead More
