open view web desk New Delhi [India], Mar 29: Deputy Spokesperson of the United States Embassy in India, Alexander McLaren on Thursday said Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was frisked at the US airport as he was on private visit. Speaking to ANI, McLaren said that if an individual is on a private visit, irrespective of whether […]
open view web desk YANGON – Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has joined the legal team representing two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar, who are accused of possessing secret government papers, her office said on Thursday. A court in Yangon has been holding preliminary hearings since January […]
open view web desk SHANGHAI/BEIJING – For a regime obsessed with secrecy, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to travel to Beijing on a distinctive green armoured train was an all-but-dead giveaway that he was making his first journey abroad since assuming power in 2011. The historic […]
open view web desk BEIJING- China warned the United States on Thursday not to open Pandora’s Box and spark a flurry of protectionist practices across the globe, even as Beijing pointed to U.S. goods that it could target in a deepening Sino-U.S. trade dispute. China could target a […]
open view web desk NEW DELHI – The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, faces increasing isolation in his home in exile as India tones down an assertive stand toward its powerful neighbour and rival, China, in the hope of calming ties strained by a border stand-off. The […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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