Sydney, Dec 10 (IANS) Flagging lack of transparency around the algorithms that Google and Facebook use to display ads and news, Australia’s consumer watchdog has said that the tech giants need to be monitored closely…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 10 (IANS) With four big oil and gas producers blocking 193 countries from “welcoming” an influential climate science report, five crucial days were left starting Monday to ensure that…
Auckland, Dec 10 (IANS) A man charged with the murder of a British backpacker in New Zealand appeared in a court here on Monday. Grace Millane disappeared in Auckland on December 1. Police ended their…
Paris, Dec 10 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with business leaders and trade unions on Monday after a fourth weekend of the violent “gilets jaunes,” or “yellow vest” nationwide protests that have…
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has agreed to a request from Defence Secretary James Mattis to propose a defence budget of $750 billion for the coming year, according to an administration official….
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) “I can’t breathe,” were the last words uttered by Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed by a Saudi hit squad at the country’s consulate in Istanbul in October,…
United Nations, Dec 10 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday asked for universality of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second…
Arusha, Dec 10 (IANS) Strange disease has killed a total of eight elephants in northern Tanzania’s district of Ngorongoro, authorities confirmed on Sunday. Joseph Meng’ oro, Deputy Wildlife Officer at the Ngorongoro District Council expressed…
Ramallah, Dec 10 (IANS) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed on the need to implement decisions against Israel, the US and the Islamic Hamas movement. Abbas was speaking during a meeting at the presidential headquarters…
Rabat, Dec 10 (IANS) Top politicians and officials will convene on Monday in the Moroccan city of Marrakech to formally adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. During the two-day Marrakech Intergovernmental…
London, Dec 10 (IANS) The British House of Commons’ committee on Exiting the European Union (EU) unanimously agreed in a report its downbeat verdict on Brexit, saying Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal fails to offer…
Mogadishu, Dec 10 (IANS) The US military has said its special forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Saturday, killing four al-Shabab militants. The US Africa Command (Africom) said the collective self-defence airstrike which was…
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying during his testimony before a congressional committee last week, when the ex-official revealed that the investigation into presumed…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 9 (IANS) The US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait have blocked the other 193 assembled countries in this Polish city from “welcoming” the recent IPCC report, even though the…
London, Dec 9 (IANS) Robotics are expected to become so sophisticated, hospitals may not need surgeons. Controlled by healthcare assistants, the machines will soon be delivering babies by carrying out C-sections as well as other…
San Francisco, Dec 9 (IANS) Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey, who faces a lawsuit for hurting Hindu sentiments during his visit to India in November, now faces criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination…
Kabul, Dec 9 (IANS) A total of 10 militants, including a Taliban key commander Mawlawi Nasratullah, were killed in Afghanistan’s Faryab province on Sunday, an army spokesperson said. The security forces, acting upon an intelligence…
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Russian Federation Navy (RuFN) ships Varyag, Admiral Panteleyev and Boris Butoma on Sunday arrived at Visakhapatnam to participate in INDRA NAVY, the bilateral maritime exercise with Indian Navy. The 10th…
London, Dec 9 (IANS) With two days to go until the crucial Brexit vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday warned MPs they will face “uncharted waters” if they rejected her deal, saying their…
Bejing, Dec 9 (IANS) “Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, a new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. The findings, based on…