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Europe to step up diplomatic efforts on Iran crisis: Germany

7:50 pm August 30, 2019

Helsinki: European countries will step up diplomatic efforts to save the beleaguered Iran nuclear deal, Germany’s foreign minister said Friday after talks with Britain and France. Tensions have spiked recently in the Gulf, where Iran has seized Western tankers as Tehran and Washington have locked horns over the 2015 deal. US President Donald Trump last […]

Brazil’s burning ban takes effect as Amazon fires rage

11:56 pm August 29, 2019

Porto Velho (Brazil): A 60-day ban on burning in Brazil takes effect Thursday after a global outcry over fires raging in the Amazon and data showing hundreds of new blazes in the rainforest. The decree issued by President Jair Bolsonaro comes after escalating international pressure over the worst fires in the Amazon in years that […]

US ready to fight Amazon fires only in cooperation with Brazil

12:42 pm August 29, 2019

Washington: The US is ready and willing to help Brazil fight forest fires in the Amazon, an aide to President Donald Trump said Wednesday, but only if it involves working with the Brazilian government. On Monday the countries of the G7 — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — pledged 20 […]

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White House says Trump regrets not raising tariffs higher

9:20 pm August 25, 2019

Biarritz (France): President Donald Trump’s only regret in hiking tariffs on China is that he didn’t raise them higher, his press secretary said Sunday after the president had earlier signaled some remorse for an escalating trade war with China. Trump faced a tense reception from world leaders meeting amid mounting anxiety of a global economic […]

Sunanda Pushkar was suffering from mental agony, Delhi Police tells court

11:14 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, who was allegedly driven to commit suicide, was suffering from mental agony due to strained relationship with her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor with whom she had a scuffle resulting in various injury marks few days before her death, the Delhi Police on Tuesday told a court here. Police accused […]