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Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

Russia will ‘keep trying to destabilise’ Western democracies: Macron

7:03 pm February 15, 2020

Munich: French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday warned that Russia would continue to try to “destabilise” Western democracies through election interference, social media manipulation and other acts of cyber warfare. “I think that Russia will keep trying to destabilise, either through private actors, directly through its agencies, or through proxies,” Macron said at the Munich […]

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Pompeo rejects claims that US has quit global role

6:58 pm February 15, 2020

Munich: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday rejected European pessimism about Washington’s retreat from the global stage, saying the death of the transatlantic bond is “grossly over exaggerated”. “The West is winning and we’re winning together,” Pompeo said at the Munich Security Conference. The annual gathering of world leaders, generals and diplomats to […]

Pope again updates Vatican legal code amid scrutiny, probes

Pope Francis sides with traditionalists on priest celibacy

5:07 pm February 15, 2020

Vatican City: In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon, Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic church. In his “apostolic exhortation” on the Amazon basin published Wednesday, Francis slammed the door on a progressive proposal offered by the region’s bishops […]

Born on a boat: new baby among 87 rescued off Canary Islands

7:42 pm February 14, 2020

Madrid: A baby born on a rickety boat bound for the Canary Islands was one of 87 migrants picked up by rescuers overnight, Spanish rescuers said on Friday. The migrants, all of them from sub-Saharan Africa, were travelling on three boats which were picked up just south of the island of Gran Canaria, a spokeswoman […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

EU calls emergency talks on new coronavirus

11:20 pm February 10, 2020

Brussels: The European Union will host an extraordinary meeting of health ministers on Thursday, along with a WHO envoy, to discuss the novel coronavirus outbreak. So far, only around 30 cases of the new strain have been detected in Europe, but the World Health Organisation warns that cases outside China could accelerate. “Now is the […]