Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Month: December 2018
Indian Elections: Some Interesting Facts and...
Former Prime Minister of India Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s father and mother share the same name Krishna. Krishna Bihari Vajpayee is his father’s name and mother’s name is Krishna Devi
Report: Freedom of Internet Declines for...
Governments around the world are increasing control over use of the internet and social media, according to the latest report by the Freedom House organization
IS Signals Re-Emergence in Parts of...
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Living Conditions of Millions of Children...
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Launch of Poem “Our Future Will...
Eavan Boland, Irish poet, addresses the event to launch her poem “Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women”
Uganda’s Young Population Needs Jobs to...
With the youngest population in the world, Uganda is one the countries most at risk from crime and instability from youth unemployment
Egyptian Actress Questioned Over Revealing Dress...
The initial complaint against the 45-year-old Youssef was filed by a group of lawyers with a reputation for moral vigilantism but they said they withdrew their complaint Tuesday
The Same Tradition!
Eleven years back, Taslima Nasreen, another controversial writer from Bangladesh was thrown out of West Bengal by the ‘secular’ Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front Government
Indonesian Public and Human Rights Groups...
Indonesian human rights groups decried the arrests made of West Papuan students and pro-independence activists after they staged peaceful rallies across Indonesian cities on Saturday
Struggle Icon Madiba Remembered
In 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections, in which he was elected the country’s first black and democratically elected president