New Delhi : Delhi’s pollution level sharply spiked Monday as a thick haze engulfed the national capital ahead of Diwali due to high impact of stubble burning and pushed the air quality in the ‘very poor’ category, authorities said. An official with the Centre-run System of Air Quality Forecasting […]
In the final days before pivotal midterm elections, President Donald Trump is painting a distorted picture of immigration while exaggerating his record of achieving economic gains for non-whites and improving health care for veterans. He insists that Republicans will be able to attract the non-white vote in Tuesday’s […]
The path to power in the House runs through a few dozen districts in Tuesday’s election , with Republicans defending their majority and Democrats looking to gain 23 seats they would need to win control. After the first polls close in the Eastern United States, the tallies will start revealing […]
An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a checkpoint in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least 13 soldiers and policemen. Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, says seven soldiers and six policemen were killed. Four soldiers were also wounded in the early Monday attack at the […]
Indian tribes that operate casinos paid nearly $27 million to Arizona during the first three months of the state budget year. The revenue announced by the state Gaming Department Friday for the quarter ending Sept. 30 is up 2 percent from the same quarter a year ago. It’s […]
China and India are closely watching the constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka, which has been a battleground in their struggle for geopolitical supremacy in South Asia. Chinese and Indian diplomats have been careful not to overtly take sides in the political turmoil, which has seen President Maithripala Sirisena […]
President Xi Jinping promised Monday to open China wider to imports as he opened a high-profile trade fair meant to rebrand the country as a global customer. But he offered no response to U.S. and European complaints about technology policy and curbs on foreign business. The China International […]
The day of reckoning for American politics has nearly arrived. Voters on Tuesday will decide the $5 billion debate between President Donald Trump’s take-no-prisoner politics and the Democratic Party’s super-charged campaign to end the GOP’s monopoly in Washington and statehouses across the nation. There are indications that an oft-discussed “blue […]
The driver of a tower-crane truck lost control and crashed into a long line of vehicles in China on Saturday, killing 15 people. A total of 31 vehicles were involved in the pileup near the Lanzhou South Toll Station on the Lanzhou-Haikou Expressway and 41 people were injured, […]
Angelina Jolie called for protection for Yemeni refugees and international efforts to bring an end to the long-running conflict in Yemen during her visit to Seoul as a special envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency. “As an international community, we have been shamefully slow to act to end the […]
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