WhatsApp co-founder leaving Facebook
San Francisco, May 1 : WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum has put out word that he is leaving Facebook, which bought the smartphone messaging service four years ago for USD 19 billion. Koum said in a post on his Facebook page that he is taking time off to pursue interests such as collecting air-cooled Porsches, working […]
10 journalists among dozens killed in Afghan attacks
Kabul, Apr 30 :Ten journalists including Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, were among dozens killed in multiple attacks across Afghanistan today, in the deadliest day for the country’s media since 2001. Two suicide blasts in Kabul killed 25 people including Marai along with at least eight other journalists, in what ‘Reporters Without […]
N Korea’s Kim willing to talk to Japan ‘any time’: Seoul
Seoul, Apr 29 : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is ready for dialogue with Japan “any time”, Seoul’s presidential office said today, as concerns grow in Tokyo that it is being sidelined from the reconciliation drive with Pyongyang. Kim met South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a historic summit on Friday at the […]
Neymar recovery on track, will be back for World Cup: doctor
Rio De Janeiro, Apr 28: Neymar is working hard to recover from the foot injury that sidelined him in February and will be back in action by this summer’s World Cup, the Brazil team doctor who operated on him promised. “Neymar is recovering the best way possible,” Rodrigo Lasmar told GloboEsporte. “He is working hard […]
N Korea says ‘historic meeting’ opens ‘new era for peace’
Seoul, Apr 28 :The inter-Korean summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in was a “historic meeting” that paved the way for the start of a new era, Pyongyang’s state media said today. The official KCNA news agency said it was a “historic meeting that has opened a new […]
North and South Korea hold historic summit
Goyang (South Korea), Apr 27 : The leaders of the two Koreas held a landmark summit today after a highly symbolic handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries, with the North’s Kim Jong Un declaring they were at the “threshold of a new history”. Kim said he was “filled with emotion” after […]
Kim and Moon to meet at military demarcation line before summit
Seoul, Apr 26: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s president Moon Jae-in will meet at the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula for their summit Friday, Seoul said, in an occasion laden with symbolism. Moon will greet his visitor at the concrete blocks that mark the border between the two Koreas […]
US high court reviews Trump’s power to block Muslim immigrants
Washington, Apr 25: President Donald Trump’s effort to ban immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries heads to the Supreme Court today, which will decide if his argument asserting national security interests was tainted by religious bias. The case, known as Trump v. Hawaii, will address the president’s broad powers to set immigration policy, which the administration […]
Indonesia oil well explosion kills 18, injures dozens
Banda Aceh (Indonesia), Apr 25: The death toll from a blaze at an illegal Indonesian oil well today has jumped to 18 with dozens injured, authorities said, warning there could be yet more victims. Images from the accident showed a towering flame shooting some 70 metres above homes and palm trees dotting a small community […]
Iran’s Rouhani questions ‘right’ to seek new nuclear deal
Tabriz, Apr 25: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani today questioned the legitimacy of demands for a fresh nuclear agreement with Tehran, after the leaders of the US and France called for a “new” deal. “Together with a leader of a European country they say: ‘We want to decide on an agreement reached by seven parties’. What […]
