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Trump wants ‘significant’ drop in Taliban violence for Afghan talks

10:25 pm January 22, 2020

Davos: US President Donald Trump told Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said he wants to see a “significant” drop in violence by Taliban guerrillas before “meaningful” negotiations can happen. At the meeting of the two presidents in Davos, Switzerland, “President Trump reiterated the need for a significant and lasting reduction in violence by the […]

Trump ‘would have loved’ to have met Greta Thunberg at Davos

7:29 pm January 22, 2020

Davos: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would have loved to have met Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg at Davos but added that she should not focus her anger on the United States. “I would have loved to have seen her,” Trump told reporters before leaving the luxury Swiss resort, while claiming that […]

WWII bomb made safe in Germany city of Cologne

8:18 pm January 21, 2020

Frankfurt Am Main: German experts defused a World War II bomb in Cologne on Tuesday that had forced the evacuation of thousands of office workers and disrupted rail and ship traffic. The 500-kilogramme (1,100-pound) US bomb — dropped during a heavy bombardment of the western German city — “no longer poses a danger”, the city […]

Airbus to build second production line in France for A321 jets

7:54 pm January 21, 2020

Paris: European aircraft maker Airbus said Tuesday it will build a new production line for its hugely popular A321 single-aisle jet in France, adding to the output of the original plant in Germany. From 2022, the jets will be built at Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse, southern France, as well as in Hamburg, Germany. “We are […]

Dutch farm dad ‘beat bad spirits out of kids’

7:50 pm January 21, 2020

The Hague: A Dutchman isolated six of his children in a remote farmhouse from birth and beat them to drive out “bad spirits” from the outside world, prosecutors told a court on Tuesday. Gerrit Jan van D., 67, subjected the youngsters who were found on the farm in the village of Ruinerwold in October to […]