Month: October 2020

Global powers push to end Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

YEREVAN/BAKU – Armenia’s president headed to Brussels for talks with the European Union and NATO military alliance on Wednesday in a renewed drive to end the heaviest fighting since the 1990s over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. As part of a wide diplomatic push from major global powers, […]

India’s coronavirus tally climbs to 7.65 million

MUMBAI – India has recorded 54,044 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 7.65 million, health ministry data showed on Wednesday. The world’s second most populous nation also has the second highest caseload, after the United States, which has a total of 8.2 million. India’s death toll from […]

Indian opposition, U.N. call for release of elderly priest held on terror charges

NEW DELHI – Indian opposition leaders on Wednesday called for the release of an elderly priest held on terror charges, one of 16 similar arrests rights groups say are politically motivated. Stan Swamy, an 83-year-old Jesuit priest working with tribal groups in Jharkhand, was arrested earlier this month […]

MoS (PP) Dr Jitendra Singh presides over the 317th Executive Council meeting of the (IIPA) as its new Chairman

DELHI, OCTOBER 21: Union MoS (I/C) DoNER, MoS (PP) Dr Jitendra Singh today presided over the 317th Executive Council meeting of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) as its new Chairman. Pertinent to mention that the post of Chairman IIPA had fallen vacant after the demise of T […]

J&K LG refuses to comment on ED summons to Abdullah

Srinagar, Oct 21: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha on Wednesday refused to comment on the fresh Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons to National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah, but said institutions have a right to act according to the Constitution and laws. “The Constitution and laws have […]

Farooq Abdullah appears before ED in JKCA money laundering case again

Srinagar, Oct 21: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for the second time in three days on Wednesday in connection with a multi-crore scam in the JK Cricket Association, with his National Conference terming the summons “yet another attempt to browbeat” […]

High court allows 3-day extension for Pennsylvania ballots

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count mailed-in ballots received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election, rejecting a Republican plea in the presidential battleground state. The justices divided 4-4 on Monday, an outcome that upholds a state Supreme Court ruling that required county election […]

From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises

NAIROBI, Kenya — The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection. Painfully, they recall times when they were sexually assaulted and then beaten up when […]

Duterte: Hold me responsible for killings in drug crackdown

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president has said he accepts responsibility for the thousands of killings committed during police operations in his crackdown on drugs, adding that he was even ready to go to jail. President Rodrigo Duterte’s televised remarks Monday night were typical of his bluster — […]

‘Running angry’: Trump attacks Dr. Fauci, press and polls

TUCSON, Ariz. — An angry President Donald Trump has come out swinging against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the press and polls that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states in a disjointed closing message two weeks before Election Day. On the third day of a western campaign […]

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