THE HINDU, 03rd NOVEMBER, 2017-The U.S. agency tasked with protecting the country from missile attacks is scouting the West Coast for places to deploy new anti-missile defenses, two Congressmen said on Saturday, as North Korea’s missile tests r

SIMI VALLEY REUTERS Dec 2 -  U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he sent a letter to Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and Iranian leaders expressing concern regarding Iran’s increasingly threatening

NEW DELHI AFP Dec2, 2017   - Indian police arrested a man whose stinky socks caused a showdown on a bus as his fellow passengers protested the pungent odour, an officer said Saturday.    The man removed his shoes and socks on a bu

Ranchi, (Hindustan Times), 1 Dec 2017 -  A 65-year-old principal of a private school in Jharkhand’s Koderma district was arrested on Friday for allegedly performing oral sex with a seven-year-old upper kindergarten girl student on several

Theresa May has said the US must do more to tackle far-Right extremists as she refused to back down in her spat with Donld Trump.  

TEHRAN AFP Dec1, 2017- Three earthquakes hit eastern Iran in quick succession early Friday, the first a fairly strong magnitude 6.0 tremor that struck at a shallow depth close to the populous city of Kerman, the US Geological Survey said.   

TOKYO AFP Dec1, 2017- injured in an explosion and fire that broke out Friday at a chemical factory just a few kilometres from Mount Fuji in central Japan.   

BUENOS AIRES AFP Dec1, 2017- Argentina’s navy on Thursday formally ended its search for survivors from the San Juan submarine, two weeks after the vessel went missing in the South Atlantic with 44 crew aboard.   

SAN FRANCISCO AFP Dec1, 2017- An undocumented Mexican immigrant was acquitted Thursday of murdering a woman in California -- a dramatic conclusion to a polarizing case that President Donald Trump frequently used on the campaign trail to make the case

Theresa May hit back at Donald Trump by insisting she is tackling terrorism today as an extraordinary spat threatened to blow the Special Relationship apart. Downing Street dismissed a jibe from the US president as the two leaders crossed swords over

den Hag, (dailt Mail),  30 November 2017 - The Bosnian-Croat war chief who killed himself during his his war crimes trial at The Hague could have had the poison smuggled to him in a suit he was given before the hearing, a court witness has said.

MOSCOW AFP Nov30, 2017- Russia on Thursday rejected a US call to cut ties with Pyongyang, suggesting Washington has been doing everything to prompt North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to “lose it”.   

Thousands of foreign tourists were leaving Bali by plane Thursday after an airport shutdown sparked by a rumbling volcano, but some visitors were irate at not being able to get off the Indonesian island paradise sooner.    The alert level o

DAILY MAIL, 30 November, 2017 -   A breakthrough on the Brexit stand-off over the Irish border appeared closer today after new proposals based on fresh devolution to Belfast emerged.  

As many as 120,000 tourists have been stranded in Bali by the ongoing eruption of Mount Agung, with some put on flights leaving after Christmas.  

AFP, 28 November, 2017- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in Tuesday for a second term, but his vow to heal the country’s divisions was overshadowed by violent protests and a pledge from his rival to stage his own inauguration.  &n

AFP, 28 November, 2017- Pope Francis called for respect for rights and justice in a keenly-watched address in Myanmar on Tuesday, but refrained from any mention of the Rohingya or the alleged ethnic cleansing that has driven huge numbers of the Musli

An emotional Robert Mugabe finally agreed to end his 37-years-rule in Zimbabwe when army generals who had seized power told him they wouldn’t prevent protesters from storming his home unless he relented, three people familiar with the talks sai

A Malaysian doctor testified Monday at the trial of two young women accused of murdering the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader that the victim’s pupils contracted and his underwear was soiled with feces, both signs of poisoni

Pope Francis flew to Myanmar on Monday in one of his most sensitive trips yet, as religious tensions fester in the mainly Buddhist nation that has bristled at global outrage over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.  

 Berlin (dpa) 27 Nov 2017 - Leaders from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat (CDU) party met for over four hours in Berlin on Sunday, unanimously agreeing to pursue a so-called grand coalition with the centre-left Social D

New Zealand, (Daily Mail), 27 November 2017 -  New Zealand could be hit by devastating earthquakes and tsunamis after the awakening of a long-dormant fault, scientists warn.  

Bali, (Daily Mail), 27 November 2017 - Around 50,000 travellers are stranded in Bali after the ash cloud from Mount Agung forced authorities to close Denpasar International Airport.   

A senior Democratic lawmaker in the US House of Representatives stepped down from the Judiciary Committee on Sunday amid allegations of sexual harassment.  

Protests erupted across Pakistan on Saturday, compelling the government to call out army troops and paramilitary rangers after nightfall to restore order in cities and towns filled with angry crowds.   

DPA, 26th NOVEMBER, 2017-Hondurans started voting Sunday in presidential and parliamentary polls amid concern over the candidacy of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is seeking a second term despite the constitution banning re-election. &nbs

US, (Hindustan Times), Nov 26, 2017 - Both sides of the US political divide are defending Malia Obama’s right to privacy after a video went viral showing the eldest daughter of former president Barack Obama apparently smoking.  

(c) 2017, Bloomberg · Kamran Haider, Iain Marlow ·Nov 26, 2017 -  The U.S. escalated its criticism of Pakistan’s decision to  set free the alleged mastermind of the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai,  with the White Hou

REUTERS, 26th NOVEMBER, 2017- India’s Supreme Court will begin hearing a case on Monday that prosecutors say shows how Islamic State sympathizers are using “Love Jihad” – marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam &ndas

Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa was set to be sworn in as president on Friday, marking the final chapter of a political drama that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe after a military takeover.    Mnangagwa, until recently one of Muga