Beijing, January 9 The Chinese capital Beijing will shut down 2,500 polluting firms in 2016 in its latest environmental protection efforts to reduce pollution as the city continues to be engulfed by smog most part of the year. The Fengtai, Fangshan, Tongzhou and Daxing districts are required to close 2,500Read More

Washington, January 9 The White House has ruled out any change in its deportation policies, which has resulted in large scale foreign nationals being forced to go back to the country of their origin. The policy has resulted in widespread concerns from various outfits, rights bodies and even leaders ofRead More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has said that he himself was surprised by his public crying this week while talking of steps to tackle gun violence. “I was, too, actually,” Obama told CNN during a town hall on gun laws in a suburb here. “I think a lot of peopleRead More

LONDON: Former US president Bill Clinton and British premier Tony Blair’s political friendship was matched by an easy-going personal relationship that helped them through some tough crises. A collection of transcribed phone conversations from 1997 to 2000 just released by Clinton’s presidential library reveals them working closely on the problemsRead More

WASHINGTON: A US Hellfire missile has turned up in Cuba after going missing in a fiasco that has left American officials worried the technology may be shared with China, Russia or North Korea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Though the missile was not carrying a warhead, the alarming diversionRead More

TRIPOLI: A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen and wounding around 200 others, officials said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but a local ISIS affiliate has been trying to gain aRead More

Islamabad, January 7 Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today chaired a high-level meeting and discussed the Pathankot terror attack as he directed officials to speed up work on the leads given by India, sources said. “Issues pertaining to national and regional security were discussed during the meeting,” the Prime Minister’sRead More

Tehran: Saudi warplanes ‘deliberately’ struck Iran’s embassy in Yemen in an air raid that wounded staff, Tehran said on Thursday, as tensions between the two regional powers mounted. “This deliberate action by Saudi Arabia is a violation of all international conventions that protect diplomatic missions,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.Read More

Seoul, January 7 South Korea is in talks with the United States to deploy US strategic weapons on the Korean peninsula, a South Korean military official said on Thursday, a day after North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen nuclear device.South Korea also said it would resume propaganda broadcastsRead More

Tripoli, January 7 A truck bomb exploded in the western Libyan city of Zliten near a police base, killing at least 60 policemen and wounding 200 today, officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but a local Islamic State affiliate has been trying to gain a foothold inRead More