Ottawa : Trade ministers from 12 countries and the European Union met here Thursday to discuss how to reform the World Trade Organization (WTO). The closed-door meeting, hosted by Canada’s Minister of International Trade Diversification Jim Carr, focused on three main themes that need...
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Tokyo [Japan] : An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter Scale struck northern Japan’s Hokkaido island on Friday. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake occurred at 3:04 am (UTC) and its epicenter was situated nearly 370 km north-east of Sapporo city. The temblor...
Frankfurt Ammain : German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday faces a second regional election in as many weeks set to inflict more pain on her shaky coalition and strengthen centrifugal forces that could yet tear it apart. Earlier this month, Bavarian voters deserted in droves the two allies...
Tokyo : Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, whose three-year hostage ordeal in Syria ended following his release, departed from Istanbul on Thursday aboard a flight bound for Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported. Yasuda, who went missing in Syria more than three years ago and was...
The accused has been arrested and sent to 14 days custody by a sub-division court. Police sources said the accused entered the woman’s house when she was sleeping alone in her room and raped her.
India, west benga : A 100-year-old woman has been allegedly raped by her 20-year-old neighbour in...
Taipei : A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, and was felt strongly in the capital Taipei.
The quake struck around 104 kilometres (66 miles) off the coast of the port city of Hualien, in the east of the island, at a depth of 34 km at 12:34 pm (0434...
Washington : US President Donald Trump accused Saudi Arabia of lying about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, his strongest comments to date on the affair, as pressure built Sunday on the administration to identify and punish those responsible. In an interview with The Washington Post published late...
Istanbul : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday vowed to reveal within days the “naked truth” over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Riyadh said it did not know the whereabouts of his body and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been unaware of any operation...
New Delhi [India], Oct 22 (ANI): The air quality in the national capital continued to remain under the ‘poor’ category on Monday with most places recording numbers over 200. As per the Air Quality Index (AQI) data, the air quality of Delhi’s Lodhi Road area on Monday morning...
Washington : Four earthquakes — measuring from 4.9 to 6.8 magnitude — struck in quick succession off Canada’s west coast late Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the first 6.6 tremor, at 10:39pm (0549 GMT Monday), was located 135 miles (218 kilometers)...
