China using BRI to achieve its national security objectives: Pompeo
WASHINGTON: China is using its government power through the Belt and Road Initiative to achieve its national security objective, US Secretary of State Mike...
India, Germany, Brazil, Japan 'absolutely needed' at UNSC as permanent members: France
UNITED NATIONS: India and nations like Germany, Brazil and Japan are "absolutely needed" as permanent members of a reformed and enlarged UN Security Council...
Trump awards highest US civilian honour to Tiger Woods
WASHINGTON:US President Donald Trump on Monday bestowed Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, describing the golfer as...
First woman to land on moon will be American: Pence
WASHINGTON: The United States is planning another space mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday asserting that the first woman to...
US supports British sovereignty over Diego Garcia and other islands in Indian Ocean
WASHINGTON: The United States Monday said it supports British sovereignty over the strategically important islands in the Indian Ocean, including Diego Garcia, and supported...
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YANGON: Two Reuters journalists who had been jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison Tuesday, freed in...
Indian-origin journalist conferred with V K Krishna Menon award
LONDON: G D 'Robert' Govender, an Indian-origin journalist in South Africa, has been honoured in the UK with 2019 V K Krishna Menon award...
Russia recovers 41 bodies from Moscow plane fire
MOSCOW: Russia's transportation minister says 41 bodies have been recovered from the burned wreckage of an Aeroflot plane at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. Minister Yevgeny Dietrich...
Pilot says lightning caused deadly Russian crash landing
MOSCOW: The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41...
Tariffs on USD 200 bn of Chinese goods to go up on May 10, says Trump
WASHINGTON: Asserting that trade negotiations with the Chinese are moving "too slowly", US President Donald Trump on Sunday said America would increase tariffs on...