SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Donald Trump government may add a new layer to its immigration rules for foreign citizens.
The United States’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to loop in the citizens already in the US as a part of its social media identification process. The proposal will require the citizens in the country to fill...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe watches a video presentation during the summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Johannesburg, August 17, 2008. Zimbabwe's ruling party and the main opposition have not yet reached a power-sharing agreement, an opposition spokesman said on Sunday. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings (SOUTH AFRICA)
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Jerry M Linenger, former NASA astronaut and space analyst, is in India for a live show on the journey of Chandrayaan 2 to the moon on National Geographic. Linenger has spent five months aboard the Russian Space Station Mir and has survived the most severe fire on an orbiting spacecraft. During the mission, the former NASA astronaut...
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Hurricane Dorian's eye seen from the International Space Station. - Photograph by NASA
The same perennially warm waters that attract tourists to the Bahamas also helped sustain one of the most destructive storms ever seen in the region.
For more than a day Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas, where it unloaded 185 mile-per-hour winds at its peak, dumped...
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Pakistan has moved a brigade consisting of over 2,000 troops to the Bagh and Kotli sectors near Poonch area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The Indian Army is closely monitoring the movement of these troops who have come from a peace station.
It is expected that the Pakistan Army may try to beef up the LoC posts with these additional...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
CALIFORNIA - Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter huddled with U.S. intelligence officials in Menlo Park, Calif., on Wednesday to discuss how the companies are working to prevent election meddling ahead of 2020, sources familiar with the meeting confirmed to The Hill.
The midday meeting at Facebook's headquarters included representatives from the Office of the Director of National...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Former president Mohamed Nasheed (File)
Drawing parallels between the erstwhile East India Company and China, former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed said Beijing has grabbed more land than the East India Company had ever done. "In the last few years, without a single shot being fired, China has grabbed more land than the East India company had ever...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former US defense secretary James Mattis has said he considers Pakistan as the “most dangerous country” he dealt with it in a long career spanning decades in the military and as a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, because of the level of radicalization of its society and its nuclear weapons.
Mattis, who left the...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
A customer compares rose gold iPhone SE (L) and iPhone 6S at an Apple Store
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Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a new budget iPhone in 2020.
The device is said to have the same size screen as the iPhone 8.
It will follow the iPhone SE, which was priced at $399. Apple’s cheapest...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Soames walks in Westminster, in London, Britain September 3, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
LONDON - Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, will be expelled from the Conservative Party after voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit.
The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most...
