DECEMBER 15, 2019
Brief Scorecard: West Indies 291 for 2 (Hetmyer 139, Hope 102*) beat India 287 for 8 (Pant 71, Iyer 70, Jadhav 40, Paul 2-40, Joseph 2-45, Cottrell 2-46) by 8 wickets
Shimron Hetmyer smashed a match-winning 139 in the Chennai ODI vs India
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU - At the toss, India captain Virat Kohli said he was 'quite...
DECEMBER 15, 2019
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun arrives at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
INCHEON, South Korea - Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, arrived in South Korea on Sunday as Pyongyang stepped up pressure on Washington to make concessions to revive stalled denuclearization talks ahead of...
DECEMBER 14, 2019
The most potent outcome of the 2019 British election for India is what didn’t happen. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn didn’t win.
Any outcome can be seen in obviously inverted ways such as this, but Corbyn wasn’t just another alternative to the winner in a foreign election. Corbyn looking to the world and setting Labour policy to deal with...
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Amid protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Human Rights office at the United Nations has expressed concern over the new law saying that it is "fundamentally discriminatory in nature".
"We are concerned that the new #CitizenshipAmendmentAct is fundamentally discriminatory in nature. Goal of protecting persecuted groups is welcomed, but the new law does not extend protection to...
DECEMBER 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders...
DECEMBER 13, 2019
India's parliament pass a contentious bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from neighboring countries
GUWAHATI, ASSAM - Internet access was cut in India's northeastern city of Guwahati on Friday as thousands gathered for fresh protests against a new citizenship law, a day after police shot dead two demonstrators.
Protests erupted this week after the government introduced...
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Team India - AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool
Three years ago, India were asked to bat first in a World T20 semi-final by the same team at the same ground in similar conditions. They lost just two wickets in their 20 overs, but were possibly not aware that their 192 was "only" 192 in those conditions in T20 cricket....
DECEMBER 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Wednesday that a senior prosecutor failed to convince him that the FBI’s 2016 investigation of President Trump’s campaign was improperly opened, revealing new details about internal tension among senior officials over the politically explosive case.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Horowitz was asked by the panel’s senior...
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Representative Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and leaders of several key committees announced articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday on Capitol Hill. - T.J. Kirkpatrick / NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic leaders on Tuesday formally called for President Trump’s removal from office, asserting that he “ignored and injured the interests of the...
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves after attending a hearing in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Aung San Suu Kyi has sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape...
