Category: International News

Facebook blocks 115 accounts ahead of US midterm elections

London, Nov 6 : Facebook said it blocked 115 accounts for suspected “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” linked to foreign groups attempting to interfere in Tuesday’s US midterm elections. The social media company shut down 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts and is investigating them in more detail, it said […]

Rebel Wilson tweets apology after backlash over ‘plus-sized’ claims

Los Angeles, Nov 6:  Rebel Wilson has apologised for the comments she had made about “plus-sized” women actors in Hollywood. The Australian actor, who will be next seen opposite Liam Hemsworth in “Isn’t It Romantic”, had claimed in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that she will be “first-ever plus-sized […]

Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi back India on democratising UN: Naidu

On Board Special Aircraft, Nov 6:  Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Tuesday said Botswana, Zimbabwe and Malawi have backed India’s push to democratise the United Nations. He was speaking to media while returning to India after a six-day visit to the three African countries. “The countries I visited agree with […]

Prime Minister meets First Lady of the Republic of Korea

open view web desk Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with H. E. Mrs. Kim Jung-sook, First Lady of the Republic of Korea today. First Lady Kim is visiting India at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi. She will be the Chief Guest at the Deepotsav event being organized […]

Work afoot by party for bypolls to 20 assembly seats in TN: AIADMK

Chennai : The teams set up by the ruling AIADMK to prepare for byelections to 20 Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies have begun their work, party coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam Monday said. He also rejected reports that Chief Minister K Palaniswami had asked the party workers to […]

SoftBank boss condemns Khashoggi murder, but won’t end ties

  The head of Japanese firm SoftBank on Monday condemned the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but indicated he would continue to do business with Saudi Arabia. The hotly awaited comments by Masayoshi Son, whose conglomerate has close ties to the Kingdom, threatened to overshadow the firm’s […]

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters file appeal

  Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists filed an appeal Monday against their seven-year jail sentence linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, the news agency said. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were found guilty under a state secrets act in September after exposing […]

Saudi sent ‘cover-up team’ to dispose of Khashoggi body: report

Saudi Arabia deployed a chemist and toxicology expert to Istanbul after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in an attempt to cover up evidence of the killing, a Turkish newspaper reported on Monday. The murder of the Saudi royal-insider-turned critic inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul has provoked […]

Khashoggi killing: sons ask Saudis to return his body

Washington : The sons of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have asked Saudi authorities to return the body of their father so the family can properly grieve, they told CNN in an interview aired Sunday. Khashoggi was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul by a team sent from Riyadh […]

Iran will ‘proudly bypass’ US sanctions: Rouhani

Tehran : Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic republic “will proudly bypass sanctions” by the United States that took effect on Monday targeting the country’s oil and financial sectors. “I announce that we will proudly bypass your illegal, unjust sanctions because it’s against international regulations,” Rouhani said in […]

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