The South African government has come up with measures that would improve India’s travel and tourism relations in a major way. The country wants to upgrade the current e-visa system with an electronic travel arrangement…
Roger Stone banned from Facebook, Instagram after controversial…
President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has been blocked on Facebook and Instagram just days after he publicly asked the commander-in-chief for clemency and petitioned a federal appeals court to put off his 40-month prison…
The World: Six arrested after ‘Dutch torture chambers’…
Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands following the discovery of seven shipping containers converted into cells and torture chambers. The containers were located in Wouwse Plantage, south of Rotterdam, after French police cracked…
The World: Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes Covid-19 test after…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he had undergone another test for the novel coronavirus and his lungs were "clean," after local media reported he had symptoms associated with the Covid-19 respiratory disease Bolsonaro…
The World: China issues bubonic plague alert, forbids…
Chinese authorities have issued a warning about the bubonic plague and forbidden eating certain animals after a suspected case was reported at a Mongolian hospital. Known as the Black Death of the Middle Ages, the…
The World: US to Send Aircraft Carriers and…
The U.S. Navy will send two aircraft carriers and several warships to the South China Sea for military exercises just a few days after China began a series of maneuvers in that Pacific Sea region.…
The World: Russia set to reopen embassy in…
Russia will reopen its embassy in Libya although it will be temporarily based in Tunisia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday. "I would like to inform you that we have decided to reopen the…
The World: New Zealand mosque shooter sentencing begins…
Brenton Tarrant pleaded guilty earlier this year to 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and one charge of committing a terrorist act. Justice Cameron Mander said the hearing is estimated to last…
The World: 24 shot to death in attack…
Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. Police in the north-central state of Guanajuato said the attack occurred in…
The World: Concern for pandemic potential flu strain…
A new strain of swine flu that has the potential to cause another pandemic has been labelled "very, very dangerous" and a "salutary reminder" that humans are constantly at risk of new diseases jumping the…
The World: WHO warns ‘we cannot let our…
The World Health Organisation has said it will “read carefully” a Chinese study on a new swine flu, which researchers noted has the potential to cause another pandemic. A spokesman said the emergence of the…
The World: Trump denies being told about Russian…
President of the United States Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was never briefed on intelligence that Russians offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing U.S. troops. "Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence,…
The World: Two injured, four dead in shooting…
Two people were left dead and at least four people were in fair condition at a hospital Saturday after a man drove into a Walmart distribution centre in California and started shooting at people. The…
The world: Spain’s top researchers discover coronavirus in…
Researchers at the University of Barcelona, one of Spain's most prestigious universities, had detected the presence of the novel coronavirus in waste water samples collected here on March 12, 2019, the university said in a…
Scientists begin to understand the many health problems…
Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to…
The World: Trump says “probably” sending U.S. troops…
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he probably would send some U.S. troops from Germany to Poland during his joint press conference with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda. Duda, the first foreign leader to…
The World: Here’s why tensions are running high…
The Chinese assault on Indian troops near the Galwan Valley, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that serves as an unofficial international frontier between the two countries, is, for India’s political elite, a reminder…
South Korea Calls John Bolton’s Claims on Kim…
South Korea’s presidential office said John Bolton painted a distorted picture of diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, joining the Trump administration in criticizing a memoir from the U.S. former national security adviser.…
Three killed, three injured during stabbing attack in…
Three people were killed and three seriously hurt in a summer-evening stabbing attack in a park in the English town of Reading. Police say it's “not currently" being treated as a terrorism-related offence and the…
