Day: January 20, 2020

Belgium region ‘totally opposes’ Mercosur trade pact

11:59 pm January 20, 2020

Brussels: Belgium’s southern Wallonia region, which briefly blocked an EU-Canada trade deal in 2016, said Monday it was “totally opposed” to Europe’s new trade pact negotiated with South America’s Mercosur grouping. The head of government for the French-speaking region, Elio Di Rupo, told the broadcaster RTBF that, “in its current state”, the agreement struck in […]

Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes Bill to establish three capitals

11:52 pm January 20, 2020

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly late on Monday night passed the AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Bill, 2020 that intended to give shape to state government’s plan of having three capitals–executive capital in Visakhapatnam, legislative in Amaravati and judicial in Kurnool. The amendments to the Bill proposed by the opposition Telugu […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

As trial nears, Trump lawyers call impeachment case ‘flimsy’

11:49 pm January 20, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,” calling the impeachment case against him “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.” The lawyers decried the impeachment process as rigged and insisted that abuse of power was not a crime. The brief from Trump’s lawyers, filed before arguments expected […]

Djokovic survives scare as rain causes chaos at Australian Open

11:29 pm January 20, 2020

Melbourne: Novak Djokovic survived a scare to join Roger Federer and Serena Williams in the Australian Open second round as heavy downpours caused chaos on Monday, forcing organisers to postpone a swathe of matches. Defending champion Djokovic was made to sweat before beating Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets on the first day, when fears […]

Anti-CAA protest by students, activists near Sabarmati Ashram

11:23 pm January 20, 2020

Ahmedabad: Around 100 students and activists on Monday held a peaceful protest outside Sabarmati Ashram here against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). The protesters also expressed solidarity with the students of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and denounced the violence that took place in the campus […]

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