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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

New British-French deal to fight “vile people smuggling”

11:48 pm July 12, 2020

Paris: France and Britain signed an agreement Sunday to share intelligence in their joint fight against the human traffickers who are illegally smuggling migrants across the English Channel French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the deal to set up a French-British intelligence unit would allow for better exchanges of information about smuggling networks British Home Secretary Priti […]

Pope names Draghi, ex-head of European Central Bank to panel

8:56 pm July 10, 2020

Vatican City: Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, has been appointed by Pope Francis to a Vatican advisory panel, the Holy See said on Friday. The pontiff named Draghi, 72, as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. An economist who received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Draghi had served as Italy’s central bank […]

Swedish ex-envoy acquitted of planning illegal China meeting

8:43 pm July 10, 2020

Helsinki: A court has acquitted Sweden’s former ambassador to China of exceeding her authority in negotiations with a foreign country, concluding the first trial of its kind involving a Swedish diplomat in more than 200 years. The Stockholm District Court ruled Friday that the prosecutor couldn’t prove that Anna Lindstedt, Sweden’s envoy to Beijing during […]

Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024

8:39 pm July 9, 2020

Geneva: The world could see annual global temperatures pass a key threshold for the first time in the coming five years, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. The World Meteorological Organization said forecasts suggest there’s a 20% chance that global temperatures will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average in at […]

India's exports fall 5.12 pc to USD 24.89 bn in Oct

German exports regain ground in May, but a long way to go

4:13 pm July 9, 2020

Berlin: German exports regained some ground in May, though the gain was far short of making up for big losses at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, official figures showed Thursday. Exports were up 9 per cent compared with the previous month, the Federal Statistical Office said. That followed declines of 11.6 per cent in March […]