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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 […]

India, with eye on China ties, bans Tibetans rally in New Delhi

open view web desk NEW DELHI – India has banned Tibetans from holding a rally with the Dalai Lama in New Delhi this month to mark the 60th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule, officials said on Wednesday, as it tries to improve fraught ties with […]

Secy Education pays surprise visit to DSE(J),SIE Jammu

open view web desk JAMMU, MARCH 07: Secretary Education, Farooq Ahmad Shah today paid a surprise visit to Directorate of School Education, Jammu DSE(J) and State Institute of Education, (SIE) Jammu and took stock of the daily working of these offices. During his visit, Secy Education directed the […]

Two Koreas to hold summit, North ready for denuclearisation talks: Seoul

open view web desk The leaders of North and South Korea will hold a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone next month after Pyongyang expressed willingness to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees, Seoul said Tuesday. The North is open to “frank” talks with […]

South Korean envoys in historic trip to North, meet Kim

open view web desk The most senior South Koreans to travel to North Korea for more than a decade met leader Kim Jong Un Monday, a Seoul official said, the latest step in an Olympics-driven rapprochement on the divided peninsula. The delegation, representing the South’s President Moon Jae-in, […]

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