DR Congo slaps down AU call to suspend final vote result
DR Congo rebuked the African Union on Friday over its calls to suspend the announcement of final results from presidential ...
Butterflies, the unlikely victims of Trump’s border wall
In Mission, Texas, the construction of part of a long-promised wall on the border with Mexico to stem the tide of undocumented ...
Japan satellite blasts into space to deliver artificial meteors
A rocket carrying a satellite on a mission to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower blasted into space on Friday, ...
Swedish centre-left PM wins second term after months of wrangling
Sweden ended a four-month political vacuum Friday when lawmakers elected Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to a second term, after he ...
US officials to ask Ecuador embassy staff about Assange visitors
US investigators will on Friday begin to question diplomatic staff who were stationed at the Ecuadorian embassy in London during ...
Norway PM Solberg succeeds in forming majority government
OSLO: Norway’s minority centre-right government has struck a deal with the small Christian Democratic Party to form a ...
Tenure of CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana ‘curtailed’
New Delhi , Jan 17 : The government on Thursday “curtailed” with immediate effect the tenure of Special Director of CBI ...
NGT slams Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore as per its 2018 order
New Delhi, Jan 17 : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Thursday slammed German auto major Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore ...
Nearly 900 villagers killed in DR Congo in one month: UN
United Nations, Jan 17 : At least 890 villagers were reportedly killed in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo last month, ...
6.0 magnitude earthquake jolts Nicobar islands region
Mayabunder (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) , Jan 17: An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck the Nicobar Islands region ...