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No problem talking to Pakistan but cannot talk to ‘Terroristan’: Jaishankar

2:18 pm September 25, 2019

New York: India has no problem talking to Pakistan but it has a problem talking to “Terroristan”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here, asserting that Islamabad has created an entire industry of terrorism to deal with the Kashmir issue. Jaishankar, addressing a New York audience at cultural organization Asia Society Tuesday, said when India […]

Trump 'would have loved' to have met Greta Thunberg at Davos

Trump slammed for trolling Greta Thunberg climate speech

1:54 pm September 24, 2019

New York: US President Donald Trump stirred up fresh outrage on social media Monday with a tweet mocking an impassioned speech made by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at the UN climate summit in New York. Her voice shaking with emotion in an address that was the defining moment of the summit, Thunberg accused world leaders […]

Pakistan’s UN envoy call British PM Boris Johnson ‘Foreign Minister’

5:38 am September 24, 2019

United Nations: In a major goof-up, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Monday called British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “Foreign Minister” on Twitter. “Prime Minister Imran Khan met British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson this morning,” Lodhi tweeted as she put out a picture of the meeting. She deleted the tweet after around […]

President Donald Trump says US troops ‘largely out’ of Syria region

Trump complains he deserves Nobel peace prize

5:10 am September 24, 2019

United Nations: US President Donald Trump aired one of his oldest grievances at the United Nations on Monday: that it’s unfair he never got the Nobel peace prize. “I would get a Nobel prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don’t,” he complained. Trump went on to raise […]

‘Moment of truth’ at key UN climate summit

8:49 pm September 23, 2019

United Nations : Some 60 world leaders came together at the UN on Monday for a “climate emergency” summit aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history. From heat waves to slow-crawling hurricanes to rapidly acidifying oceans, […]