Geneva, Sep 26 (IANS/AKI) The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged countries to double their aid to nearly half a million Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar, warning that hardship…
Rome, Sep 26 (IANS/AKI) Security agencies have for too long underestimated the perils posed by jihadist terrorists who use the internet to recruit, Italy’s Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said, urging countries to regain lost ground….
Milan, Sep 26 (IANS/AKI) Italian Police on Tuesday arrested 24 Calabrian mafia or ‘Ndrangheta suspects in the northern Lombardy region and in Reggio Calabria in an operation against an alleged cocaine trafficking racket run by…
Islamabad, Sep 26 (IANS) Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday once again slammed the judiciary for rejecting his appeal against his disqualification from office and reaffirmed he would fight a legal battle to…
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) At least six of US President Donald Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses for official White House business, current and former officials have said. The disclosures came a day…
Rabat, Sep 26 (IANS/MAP) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is helping to further increase financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Morocco by providing 217 million dirhams (up to 20 million…
Dhaka, Sep 26 (IANS) The UN office in Bangladesh on Tuesday said 480,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority have crossed into the country from Myanmar over the last month. The Inter-Sectoral Coordination Group said…
Ankara, Sep 26 (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Iraqi Kurds could go hungry as a result of the punitive measures it is considering after a referendum on independence for Iraq’s Kurdistan…
Beijing, Sep 26 (IANS) Chinese-funded enterprises doing business in Pakistan should avoid flaunting economic and technical superiority and instead value the common interests of both countries, Chinese experts have said. Wu Menglin, an associate researcher,…
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) An anti-dengue antibody-based drug could potentially protect a mother and her foetus from the deadly Zika virus as well, suggests new research. In experiments with mice, the researchers found that an…
Barcelona, Sep 26 (IANS) Spanish security operations to thwart a controversial secession referendum in the northeastern region of Catalonia were continuing on Tuesday as online operations rendered over 140 pro-independence web pages inaccessible. Sources from…
London, Sep 26 (IANS) A sophisticated cyber attack on accountancy firm Deloitte has reportedly compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian reported, adding that the hackers might have…
Islamabad, Sep 26 (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed outrage over deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif being accorded “official protocol” at the Islamabad airport upon his return from abroad. Sharif returned…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, Sep 26 (IANS) China has blocked the world’s most popular instant messaging app WhatsApp, cranking up the Internet censorship ahead of the crucial Communist Party Congress in October. The app, owned…
London, Sep 26 (IANS) In a rare instance, a 35-year-old man in France who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown signs of consciousness for the first time after neurosurgeons administered…
San Francisco, Sep 26 (IANS) Global communications services provider British Telecommunications (BT) on Tuesday announced a global partnership with Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, to co-create innovative solutions in the area of industrial…
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday invited French businesses to invest in Indian infrastructure, including highways, railways, ports and airports. “Market mechanisms and rule of law determine transparent and…
London, Sep 26 (IANS) While agricultural insurance intends to protect farmers in developing countries from the effects of climate change, it can also have undesirable ecological and social side-effects, say researchers. Agricultural insurance can change…
Jakarta, Sep 26 (IANS) Some 75,000 people were evacuated due to increasing frequency of tremors around Mount Agung, a large volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali, authorities announced on Tuesday. “Mount Agung is entering…
Kathmandu, Sep 26 (IANS) A female photo journalist from Nepal on Tuesday scaled the world’s eighth highest peak Mount Manaslu in Gorkha district of the Himalayan nation. “I confirmed with the Sherpa guides and officials…
