Day: December 9, 2019

Maha: One held for rape and murder of five-year-old girl

Nagpur, Dec 9: A 32-year-old man has been arrested for raping and murdering a five-year-old tribal girl by smashing her head with a stone in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district on Sunday, police said on Monday. The body of the girl, who was missing since December 6, was found on an […]

France ready to take Trump’s tariff threat to WTO: Le Maire

PARIS – France is ready to go to the World Trade Organization to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to put tariffs on champagne and other French goods in a row over a French tax on internet companies, its finance minister said on Sunday. “We are ready to […]

Unrelenting transport chaos as French strike bites

Public transport in France was crippled for a fourth day Sunday as the government prepared to respond to anger over pension reforms that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets as workers embarked on open-ended protest. President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and senior cabinet ministers are […]

Iran unveils budget of ‘resistance’ against US sanctions

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday presented to parliament what he called a “budget of resistance” against crippling sanctions imposed by arch-enemy the United States. “Next year, similar to the current year, our budget is a budget of resistance and perseverance against sanctions,” Rouhani told parliament in remarks […]

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