JUNE 3, 2018
Days before Kim Jong Un is set to meet US President Donald Trump in Singapore, the North Korean leader is revealing plans to meet yet another leader -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad will visit Kim in North Korea, the latter country's state news agency KCNA said Sunday. The report did not specify a date for the meeting,...
JUNE 2, 2018
New Delhi: Mic-in hand, speaking of his candidacy for governor of California is 22-year-old Indian-American Shubham Goel, who has his roots in Uttar Pradesh. The youngest candidate running for governor of California, Mr. Goel calls for "fresh voices to change the state government". He was born and raised in California and campaigns for need for practical solutions...
JUNE 2, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects a guard of honour at the Changi Naval Base in Singapore on Saturday. | Photo Credit: PTI
Modi interacts with Singapore and Indian personnel
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Changi Naval Base on Saturday and met officers and sailors of the Indian Navy and the Royal Singapore Navy.
The Prime Minister was...
JUNE 2, 2018
United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin stands for the official photo of delegates during the G7 Finance Ministers Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Canadian finance chief calls U.S. tariffs “absurd”; Some G7 finance ministers say Trump violating international law
The United States' closest allies attacked the Trump administration...
JUNE 2, 2018
Actor-producer Arbaaz Khan, brother of superstar Salman Khan, was questioned for four hours on Saturday by the Thane anti-extortion cell (AEC) in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting case. While questioning, the names of two more Bollywood producers – Parag Sanghvi and Murad Khaitan – have come up.
The police said Khan may be made the...
JUNE 2, 2018
Farmers agitation at Nashik collector office on Friday. (Express Photo by Mayur Bargaje)
Demanding remunerative prices for their produce, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and farm loan waivers among other things, farmers across the country continued their agitation Saturday as part of a 10-day long nationwide strike.
In the wake of the dwindling fresh supplies of farm...
JUNE 2, 2018
The mystery over the prime source of the deadly Nipah virus that claimed 17 lives in north Kerala deepened after the blood and serum samples taken from fruit bats were also found negative.
At least 13 samples had been sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal and all tested negative like the earlier...
JUNE 2, 2018
President Trump said after meeting with North Korea’s envoy that he no longer wanted to use the term “maximum pressure.” - Tom Brenner/The New York Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump never tires of pointing out that his predecessors left him the “mess” of a nuclear-armed North Korea — a legacy of errors he vows not to repeat.
But...
JUNE 2, 2018
A tent is seen next to Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles - REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found.
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on...
JUNE 2, 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump
Canada isn't taking President Donald Trump's decision to hit the country with steel and aluminum tariffs lying down.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on $12.8 billion worth of US goods in response to Trump's metals tariffs.
The list of goods set to get...
