Washington: Despite Barack Obama winning a second term as President of the US, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is all set to quit and make way for Susan Rice, the present US ambassador to the United Nations.
As per media reports, Thursday, Hillary is not keen to continue and plans to quit at the end of [...]
New York: A wintry storm dropped snow and rain on the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and knocking out power in a region where hundreds of thousands were still in the dark after Superstorm Sandy.
The nor’easter storm brought fresh misery to thousands in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut whose homes were destroyed [...]
London: An Anglo-German team of astronomers has discovered a new planet orbiting a nearby sun at just the right distance for an Earth-like climate that could support life.
The team actually found three new planets orbiting the star 44 light years away, but only one of them is in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, the band around [...]
London: The Metropolitan Police have arrested four persons, including a 40-year-old woman, in connection with the stabbing of retired Lieutenant General KS Brar, who had led ‘Operation Blue Star’ 28 years ago to flush out pro-Khalistani militants from the Golden Temple.
“Officers from the MPS have this evening arrested three men and one woman on suspicion [...]
Yangon: A month before Aung San Suu Kyi was born, on June 19, 1945, her family moved into a two-story mansion near Kandawgyi Lake in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon. Built on a small hill, it resembles the house from Hitchcock’s Psycho, but with a real-life history of horror.
An older brother drowned in the garden pond, [...]
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday vowed that the US would not rest until it probes the attack on its consulate in Benghazi and tracks down those who killed “our people”, but cautioned against jumping to any conclusion.
Four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya were killed when the US Consulate in [...]
Washington: A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a US raid.
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full [...]
Washington: Chinese-owned Ralls Corp. has sued US President Barack Obama for blocking a wind farm project, claiming that his order gave no detailed explanation.
In a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court here, Ralls Corp. said Obama acted in “an unlawful and unauthorized manner” in issuing the order.
He gave no “reasoned explanation” for his [...]
Rawalpindi: As Pakistan’s mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider’s print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations.
Weeks of protests in Pakistan over the crudely made “Innocence of Muslims” have killed more than 20 people and caused serious damage to major cities, but [...]
Hong Kong: The company that owns the ferry involved in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest accidents in decades said on Wednesday that it passed an inspection just last month, though authorities have offered no explanation about how two boats collided on a clear night in one of the safest and most regulated waterways in Asia.
Police [...]
Washington: Ahead of the first of the three-presidential debates this month, Barack Obama, the incumbent and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are virtually tied, a series of latest opinion poll has revealed.
The results of the opinion poll come less than 50 hours before the crucial first of the three presidential debates between Obama and Romney. [...]
New York: The United States has told India it was going to have a broader relook at its visa regime, but this will have to await the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
This was conveyed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toIndian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna when he raised the issue at [...]
Tokyo: A weakening tropical storm was speeding out of Japan on Monday after bringing gale-strength winds to Tokyo and injuring dozens of people, causing blackouts and paralyzing traffic to the south and west of the capital.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency had warned Tokyo residents to stay indoors while Typhoon Jelawat passed on Sunday night. The storm then [...]
Rome: The leaders of two small Italian political parties have thrown their support behind Premier Mario Monti for a second term.
Gianfranco Fini, who split with Premier Silvio Berlusconi in 2010 to head his own small party, said today he would support the creation of a national civic list headed by Monti for spring elections.
Pier Ferdinando [...]
Tokyo/Beijing: Six Chinese surveillance ships entered waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing on Friday, raising the stakes in a long-running territorial row between Asia’s two biggest economies.
China’s foreign ministry said that the ships entered the disputed waters to carry out maritime surveillance and that for the first time China was carrying out [...]