The Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume was seen as the principal architect of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement. John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at […]
Year: 2020
“In light of the latest developments, France will not proceed as it stands with the ratification of the extradition agreement signed on May 4, 2017 between France and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement. France on Monday said it was halting ratification […]
WASHINGTON: The US government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, on Monday (Aug 3) said states with high coronavirus case counts should reconsider imposing lockdown restrictions, emphasising the need to get cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season. In some states with moderate case counts, experts […]
The company today said that it will be offering a discount of ₹10,000 on all models of its The Serif smart TV that was launched in India last month at a starting price of ₹83,900. Samsung today announced that it will be offering lucrative deals and discounts on the purchase […]
The two countries have already exchanged several tit-for-tat actions involving journalists in recent months, with the US designating multiple Chinese state or Communist Party-backed media as foreign embassies. SHANGHAI: China will take retaliatory measures if all Chinese journalists based in the United States are forced to leave the country, […]
Hong Kong: An “SOS” message written on the beach of a tiny Pacific island pointed rescuers to three missing mariners, United States and Australian authorities said Tuesday. The three men had set out in a 23-foot (7 meter) boat last Thursday to make a 26-mile (42 kilometer) journey from Pulawat […]
Vodafone Idea has let go off around 1,200 – 1,500 permanent employees since May 2020 in a bid to cut its operational costs. Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) has laid off nearly 1,500 employees from across the country in a bid to cut its costs. The move follows an earlier decision […]
Lunchbox, books, pencil case — masks? Thousands of children in northern Germany became the first in Europe to begin a new school year on Monday after months of curtailed hours over the coronavirus pandemic. The rest of the country was watching anxiously as 150,000 children returned to school in Mecklenburg-Western […]
At least 29 people have been killed in an attack on a prison in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad which saw more than 1,000 inmates try to flee. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), began on Sunday evening when car bombs were detonated at the […]
Taylor Swift’s surprise eighth album, Folklore, has broken several chart records in its first week on sale. The record was written and recorded during the coronavirus lockdown, and swerves away from the pop sound that’s dominated her last three albums. On Spotify, it achieved 80.6m streams in a single day, […]