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WASHINGTON: For Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, it was an occasion to celebrate as Indian-American Sunder Pichai, CEO of Google, appeared before a Congressional committee for a grilling by lawmakers on the search engine’s data privacy. The two, now holding reputable positions in different spheres of lives — one in politics and the other in the corporate world […]
A gunman on a security watchlist killed at least two people and wounded at least 11 others near the picturesque Christmas market in the historic French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening before fleeing. With France still on high alert after a wave of attacks commissioned or inspired by Islamic State militants since early 2015, […]
A 38-year-old Indian national has been arrested on charges of smuggling foreign nationals into the US for private financial gain, according to Department of Justice. Bhavin Patel is charged by indictment with one count of conspiracy to bring in and harbour aliens and six counts of smuggling foreign nationals into the US via commercial airline […]
UNITED NATIONS: Trillions of dollars – equivalent to more than five per cent of global GDP – are paid in bribes or stolen through corruption every year, according to the United Nations. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres deemed corruption “an assault on the values of the United Nations,” in a message on the International Anti-Corruption Day, which is […]
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: The White House official widely touted as Donald Trump’s favorite to succeed his outgoing chief of staff John Kelly is instead leaving the administration at year’s end, he tweeted Sunday. Nick Ayers, the 36-year-old chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, tweeted that “I will be departing at the end of the year […]
KATOWICE: Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to bridge deep political divides. The two weeks of talks, which began at the start of the week, are billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 […]
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder when it comes to President Donald Trump and his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. Nine months after Trump summarily dismissed his top diplomat by tweet, Trump and Tillerson were back to bickering as they traded accusations in a relationship that at turns has been icy and […]
A Southwest Airlines Co. jet rolled off the end of a California runway as it landed in the rain, skidding to a stop on a crushable concrete surface designed to hinder out-of-control aircraft. No one was injured in the incident that occurred about 9:05 a.m. local time. Flight 278, carrying 112 passengers and five crew, […]
WASHINGTON: An estimated 800,000 to 2 million religious minorities are currently being detained in internment camps in China, the Trump Administration has told lawmakers, who have expressed serious concerns over the massive human rights violations there. At a Congressional hearing, Scott Busby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau of the Human Right Democracy and […]
Six US Marines were missing following a still-unexplained mishap off the coast of Japan on Thursday involving two U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, which may have collided mid-air during a refuelling exercise gone wrong, US officials said. Japan’s defence ministry said that its maritime forces had so far rescued one of the seven Marines who were […]