SEOUL, Jan. 21 (AFP) – North Korean delegates arrived in Seoul on Sunday on their way to inspect venues and prepare cultural performances for next month’s Winter Olympics, in the first visit by Pyongyang officials to the South for four years. Television footage showed a group of seven...
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UNITED NATIONS, 20 January : Pakistan needs to change its “mindset” of differentiating between good and bad terrorists, India said at the UN Security Council, urging it to focus on challenges posed by terrorism emanating from the safe havens from across the border. Indian Ambassador...
Pakisthan, 20, January : Firing broadside at all his opponents, deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif said that all those people who abuse each other gathered on one platform only to conspire against him. “Where was the politics, diplomacy then,” Nawaz questioned the opposition parties while...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — As many as 20 lawmakers of India’s anti-graft Aam Aadmi Party face exit from Delhi assembly as the Election Commission has recommended their disqualification over holding of offices of profit as parliamentary secretaries, sources said Friday.
“The...
BANGKOK, Jan 16 (AP) — Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed that they will try to complete the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar within two years, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said a joint working...
EDINBURGH, Jan 15, 2018 (AFP) – Scotland’s economy would shrink by 8.5 percent if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon warned Monday as she pushed for Britain to stay in the European single market. “There is no option short of EU membership that...
MOSCOW, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Russia’s incumbent president Vladimir Putin is likely to win the 2018 presidential race with 81.1 percent of votes, leaving all rival candidates far behind, a public opinion poll by the government-owned research center VTSIOM showed Monday. About 67 percent...
UNITED STATES, 14 Jan.: Africans have reacted angrily after US President Donald Trump reportedly referred to their nations as “shithole countries”, with many accusing the US president of racism and ignorance. The 55-nation African Union condemned the remarks on Friday, while a statement from...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he saw “a lot of good energy” from the inter-Korean talks on Tuesday, the first of its kind over the past two years.
“A lot of good talks are going on right now, a lot of good energy. I see a...
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday that he is open to meet with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), if it is necessary to improve inter-Korean relations.
Moon, who took office in May last year, said in his...
