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UN Assembly calls for ceasefire in Gaza: Resolution adopted
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17: The UN General Assembly with overwhelming majority adopted a resolution on Friday night calling for an immediate, durable ceasefire in Gaza. It rejected a more critical and...
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Arctic front freezes US, Canada in record cold
WASHINGTON, Jan 17: A record cold snap gripped the American Midwest on Friday as temperatures plummeted to lows of minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 degrees Celsius) and officials scrambled to protect the homeless and vulnerable....
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North Korea ‘weaponised’ plutonium stocks, says US scholar
BEIJING, Jan 17: North Korea has ‘weaponised’ enough declared plutonium stocks to produce four to five nuclear bombs, said Selig Harrison, a US expert just returned from talks with officials in Pyongyang....
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UN asks nations to adopt new food security plan
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17: UN officials proposed a new strategy on Friday for feeding the world’s poorest, pushing improved nutrition and school feeding programmes, better access for small farmers to markets, and greater use of tax breaks and biofuels....
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‘No God’ bus ads banned in Italian city
ROME, Jan 17: Italian atheists have lost a bid to run ‘no God’ advertisements on city buses after strong opposition from conservative political parties, a member of the group said on Saturday....
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Iran accuses Israel of using phosphorus
TEHRAN, Jan 17: Iran accused Israel of using white-phosphorus munitions in Gaza and called for an investigation in a letter to an international watchdog agency made available to media on Saturday.The...
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‘Slumdog Millionaire is not a social critique’
WHEN they made a film of Vikas Swarup’s bestseller, they gave it an extreme makeover. But can I get the author to say anything critical about Danny Boyle’s hit adaptation of...
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Ulema meet to give guidance on fatwas
RIYADH, Jan 17: Muslim scholars from around the world gathered in Makkah on Saturday for a conference aimed at giving guidance on fatwas....
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Six policemen killed in India landmine blast
RANCHI, Jan 17: Six policemen were killed in a landmine blast set off by suspected Maoist insurgents in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on Saturday, police said....
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Malaysia’s Islamists win key by-polls
KUALA TERENGGANU (Malaysia), Jan 17: Malaysia’s opposition Islamist party won a fiercely-contested by-election on Saturday in a vote that was cast as a referendum on incoming prime minister Najib Razak....
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‘BD security forces illegally killed 149 in 2008’
DHAKA, Jan 17: Security forces in Bangladesh unlawfully shot or tortured to death 149 people in 2008 when the country was ruled by an army-backed government, a human rights group said on Saturday....
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Thai navy abandoned 400 migrants at sea: HR group
BANGKOK, Jan 17: Thailand’s navy abandoned hundreds of illegal migrants on a barge in the Indian Ocean where about 300 desperate people with little food and water later drowned, a refugees’ advocacy group said....
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Tasers spread to Africa
BRUSSELS: A French weapons firm has acknowledged for the first time that it has sold stun-guns to Senegal, where they have been reportedly used against journalists covering football matches and political protests...
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Rio police show new face in slums
RIO DE JANEIRO: Bouncing a small boy on her knee and listening attentively to residents’ complaints, Capt Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is the new face of policing in Rio de Janeiro....
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China’s rich fuel fitness industry
BEIJING: Aged 35, single and stressed from her hectic job running a restaurant, Qi Quanli is one of China’s ambitious class of newly rich who are helping to power the nation’s booming fitness industry....
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Celebrities flock to US capital for inauguration
WASHINGTON: Just for once, Washington is outshining New York and Los Angeles. The small and usually sedate city is, for this coming week, party central....
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