AUGUST 10, 2018
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has expressed regret over his recent statement on Jawaharlal Nehru in which he called the former Prime Minister as "self-centred".
"My statement has created controversy, I apologise if I said something wrong," he said.
The Dalai Lama had said that India and Pakistan would have remained one if Pt Nehru had...
AUGUST 10, 2018
The Maldives wants India to withdraw military helicopters and personnel posted there following the expiry of an agreement in June, its envoy said, the latest snub to New Delhi by President Abdulla Yameen's China-backed government.
India and China are going head to head in the Maldives, the Indian Ocean island chain where Beijing is building roads,...
AUGUST 9, 2018
President Trump with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, before departing the NATO summit meeting in Brussels in July. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior American national security officials, seeking to prevent President Trump from upending a formal policy agreement at last month’s NATO meeting, pushed the military alliance’s...
AUGUST 9, 2018
North Korea ripped the U.S. government on Thursday for insisting that Pyongyang fully denuclearize, claiming that Trump administration officials are "going against" President Trump by criticizing the nation.
The North Korean government that it has halted nuclear missile tests, dismantled a nuclear test site and the remains of Americans killed in the Korean War, but lamented continued criticism...
AUGUST 9, 2018
US Vice President Mike Pence gestures during an event on the creation of a U. S. Space Force, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at the Pentagon. Pence says the time has come to establish a new United States Space Force to ensure America's dominance in space amid heightened completion and threats from China and Russia. - AP Photo/Evan...
AUGUST 9, 2018
The Kremlin said the sanctions were at odds with the "constructive atmosphere" of President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin's summit in Helsinki. - Mikhail KlimentyevTASS via Getty Images
MOSCOW — Russia condemned a new round of U.S. sanctions as illegal on Thursday after news of the measures sent the rouble tumbling to two-year lows and sparked...
AUGUST 8, 2018
A mural painting on a building in downtown Tehran. | Photo Credit: AFP
Says the U.S. has imposed the most biting sanctions ever on the Islamic Republic
U.S. President Donald Trump warned countries against doing business with Iran on Tuesday as he hailed the “most biting sanctions ever imposed”, triggering a mix of anger, fear and defiance in...
AUGUST 8, 2018
Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is cutting off trade with Canada to deter criticism from Western countries. (Photo Credits: Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia took concrete steps to disengage economically from Canada on Wednesday, escalating the feud over Canada’s criticism of Saudi Arabia and demonstrating that...
AUGUST 8, 2018
Australian farmers have struggled to feed their livestock. - (Photo Credits: Brook Mitchell)
Australia relaxed rules about shooting kangaroos in New South Wales (NSW) Wednesday as the state was declared "100% in drought" after months of little or no rain.
Less than 10 millimeters of rain fell in the state in July, the , putting further pressure on dwindling...
AUGUST 8, 2018
The mortal remains of DMK patriarch Karunanidhi being carried in a gun carriage. | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj
CHENNAI - DMK chief M. Karunanidhi was laid to rest on the Marina Beach in Chennai on Wednesday beside his mentor, Dravidian ideologue and former chief minister C.N. Annadurai.
The former chief minister was accorded a state funeral with gun...
