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China says North Korea’s Kim pledged commitment to denuclearisation

open view web desk BEIJING/SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearisation and to meet U.S. officials, China said on Wednesday after his meeting with President Xi Jinping, who promised China would uphold friendship with its isolated neighbour. After two days of speculation, […]

PNB to settle nearly $1 billion to peer banks in claims over fraud

open view web desk MUMBAI – Indian state-run Punjab National Bank has agreed to pay 65 billion rupees ($997.4 million) to counterparty banks, honouring an initial tranche of claims over a massive fraud case and ending uncertainty around repayments in the banking sector. In what has been dubbed […]

Speculation on Kim visit to China rife as train departs

open view web desk Speculation that Kim Jong Un visited Beijing on his first-ever foreign trip as North Korea’s leader was rife Tuesday after Japanese media reported the arrival and departure of a special train met by an honour guard. Heightened security at possible venues for a high-level […]

Facebook data scandal widens as Canadian company accused of helping target U.S. voters

open view web desk LONDON – A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened on Tuesday when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a programme to target Republican voters in the 2016 U.S. election. Christopher Wylie, who previously revealed that […]

Stormy Daniels threatened on ‘near-hourly basis’: lawyer

open view web desk Porn actress Stormy Daniels’s attorney said Monday his client receives threats on a “near-hourly basis” — the morning after she broke her silence on an alleged affair with US President Donald Trump. Daniels told CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday evening that she was approached by […]

Facebook: call, text history logging requires users’ permission

open view web desk Facebook Inc, responding to reports in some technology industry media that it has been logging users’ call and text history without their permission, said in a statement on Sunday that the function “has always been opt-in only.” The social media site said that when […]

Porn star says she was threatened to keep silence on Trump: TV interview

open view web desk WASHINGTON – An adult-film actress who claims she had sex with Donald Trump before he was president said on Sunday she had been threatened in 2011 while in a parking lot with her infant daughter to discourage her from discussing the relationship. Stormy Daniels, […]

Obama: N. Korea ‘real threat’, urges co-operation

open view web desk North Korea poses a “real threat” whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama said Sunday on a visit to Japan. Obama also said the US needed to ensure there was a defence system in place to protect countries in the […]

Stephen Hawking, British scientist and cultural icon, dies at 76

open view web desk British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, died Wednesday aged 76. Propelled to stardom by his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time”, which became an unlikely worldwide bestseller, Hawking dedicated […]

Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal, killing at least 50

open view web desk KATHMANDU – A Bangladeshi airliner crashed on Monday after making an unexpected turn in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the airport in Nepal’s capital, killing at least 50 people, officials said. There were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines […]

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