Global desk - The death toll in violence in Indian State of Kashmir rose to 32 with three more people injured over the past days died in Srinagar hospital, officials and media reports said Tuesday. As precautionary measures, mobile internet, railway services and Amarnath Yatra remain suspended since Friday evening. It was widely believed that...
The killing in Okinawa and subsequent arrests of military personnel for drunk driving have dented local relations and spurred large demonstrations calling for the removal of US bases threatening to halt plans to relocate some Marine units away from populated areas of the island to more remote bases.
With Clinton nodding in agreement beside him, Sanders put their bitter primary campaign behind them and said she would take up the fight to ease economic inequality, make college more affordable and expand healthcare coverage for all Americans.
The U.N.'s special representative for the prevention of genocide has warned that soldiers have targeted civilians by ethnicity during the clashes that began last Thursday. However, during fighting on Sunday and Monday tanks, helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft guns were all deployed to bombard Machar's positions. Machar's spokesman said on Wedn...
He said the new troops were "ready to come" and it would be a matter of "days and weeks, not months". (Newswire.net - July 13, 2016) -During his visit to Baghdad on Monday , United States Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, said that an additional force of 560 more troops will be stationed at the Qayyarah Air Base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, w...
When the group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators was not allowed in Sunday, members chose to courageous hot Texas summer temperatures and march up and down a commercial street. Three other people have been taken into custody, but their identities and connections to the attack have not been shared. "I was a target in the very community I swore t...
Trump also canceled a planned rally in Miami. But she said she relied on colleagues who had long experience in handling classified material. Trump also made his first mention of the two black men killed by police this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St.
Pavey, the 42-year-old mother of two, will become the first British track athlete to compete in five Games after getting the nod in the 10,000m ahead of Kate Avery in an 80-strong team. "There's a real blend of experience and exciting new talent", Black said. "Hopefully, we have a race where the people that have always been consistent performers ...
The United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, has sent about 40 soldiers to South Sudan's capital of Juba to facilitate the evacuation of US embassy personnel, the State Department said on Wednesday. While US troops will not have a combat role, their presence will not go unnoticed by rival factions. "Right now you're seeing the peace process ...
The Amaq news agency said Shishani was killed in combat in the town of Shirqat, south of Mosul in Iraq. He has been repeatedly described as a capable commander by U.S. Shishani, whose nom de guerre means "Omar the Chechen", was one of the IS leaders most wanted by Washington which had put a $5 million bounty on his head.
Gerard Pique could be in line for a surprise return to Manchester United after it was reported that the Barcelona defender is unhappy at the Nou Camp. If that happens, United will turn their attention to Sissoko, who shone for France during Euro 2016. "For the moment, I am not really convinced", added Petit.
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a five-person team to Florida later this week to investigate that crash, said Christopher O'Neil, a spokesman for the agency, which makes recommendations to regulators and companies about transportation-related safety issues.
The shootings were the deadliest episode for USA law enforcement officers since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in which 71 officers were killed. I took that as a reference to the degraded public dialogue we live with, where one protester out of a hundred chants vile threats against cops and suddenly they're all a bunch of thugs, or one cop o...
In the Commons, Conservative MPs rose as one to applaud Mr Cameron at the end of his 182nd PMQs session as prime minister, as did former Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. She said she wanted to address the poorest and most disadvantaged in society, and the people who had been left behind. She was expected to announce key members of her ...
The returning MP sat down with the prime minister in Melbourne on Friday, for what she described as a rich discussion. "Malcolm Turnbull left me with the distinct impression he was very honest about developing infrastructure.it seems to me that he realises they've been going in the wrong direction", Katter said of their discussion in Brisbane o...
Israeli officials said wreckage from the aeroplane was located on Natanya beach, north of Tel Aviv. "They were collected and it turns out there is a very high probability that they are from the Egyptian plane", the official said, without elaborating.
Meanwhile Indian officials said on Wednesday that as from Friday government would airlift hundreds of its nationals from war-torn South Sudan. The fighting was heaviest in an area called Jebel to the west of the city where ex-rebels had a military base close to a United Nations camp for people previously uprooted in the civil war.
The tribunal said that any historical resource rights China may have had were wiped out if they are incompatible with exclusive economic zones established under the United Nations treaty, which both countries have signed. "I think it is the same what the Chinese government is upholding", Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told the media here. ...
Among the participants are Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang . "So I imagine that would definitely come up for discussion", she said. The four-day trip will start with the official visit, the first by a Singapore prime minister to Mongolia since diplomatic ties were established in 1970, said the Prime Minister's Off...
Reports suggest Umar Mansur was killed in Bandar area of Achin in Nanagarhar. The strike was the second in the space of two months against a senior insurgent leader close to the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There was no confirmation of Mansour's death from the TTP. Mansoor, also known as Umar Naray and Khalid Khurasani, had claime...