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Pakistan on Saturday rejected United States' notion of Beijing being the sole benefactor of its China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and asserted that its relations with China within the purview of the project will never fray. (Photo: File)

CPEC wont be a burden: Pakistan hits back at US

Wells had deemed CPEC a form of financing ensuring guaranteed profits for Chinese state-owned enterprises.

24 Nov 2019 10:06 AM

The victim was treated at a hospital. (Representational Image)

US man forces pregnant girlfriend to drink toilet water, bleach; jailed

Police said the assault took place Wednesday at the 20-year-old victim’s apartment in St. Peters.

23 Nov 2019 10:25 AM

As part of a research project, eighth graders in the Payatas district north of the capital Manila gathered and air-dried dog faeces, which were then mixed with cement powder and moulded into rectangular “bio bricks”. (Representational Image)

Philippine students turn littered dog poo into bricks

A group of secondary school students in the Philippines has found a way to convert poo from stray dogs into a mixture for bricks.

22 Nov 2019 1:14 PM

The teenager who gunned down two classmates at a California school last week before shooting himself used a “kit gun” that is untraceable, authorities said Thursday. (Photo: AP)

California student who shot 2 others, himself dead used ‘kit gun’: Officials

Authorities are still trying to piece together what prompted the shooting, especially as Berhow had no history of troubled behaviour.

22 Nov 2019 12:58 PM

Francis Rooney is the third American lawmaker in recent days to make a statement favourable to India after Congressmen George Holding and Pete Olson. (Twitter/ Francis Rooney )

Hostile, nuclear-armed Pak keeps India on constant alert, says US lawmaker

India faces increasingly aggressive and assertive China that continues to export its malign influence throughout the Indo-Pacific region.

22 Nov 2019 12:16 PM

Bei Bei will travel on a specially equipped direct flight from Washington to Chengdu inside a steel and plexiglass crate, accompanied by his keeper. (Skip Brown/Smithsonian's National Zoo)

Bye Bye, Bei Bei: Last Panda cub in US leaves for China

The four year-old cub, whose name means 'precious, treasure' in Mandarin, was destined to head to China under Beijing's 'panda diplomacy'.

20 Nov 2019 11:09 AM

An Indian national has been charged with sexually assaulting an American national while working as a US military contractor in Afghanistan. (Representational Image)

Indian charged with sexual abuse while working as US military contractor in Afghanistan

US military authorities in Afghan arrested Naik on November 8 and his initial appearance was held before US Magistrate via video conference.

19 Nov 2019 11:21 AM

Three people were killed in a shooting early Monday outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma, including the assailant, police said -- the latest in a string of deadly gun attacks at the popular supermarket chain. (Photo: File)

3 dead in shooting at Walmart in US: Police

Witnesses told local news channels that the shooter approached his victims while they were inside the vehicle, opening fire on them.

19 Nov 2019 9:40 AM

The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday in the latest pro-Israel shift by Washington. (Photo: File)

In new pro-Israel shift, US no longer calls settlements on occupied Palestinian land illegal

Pompeo said that US was not necessarily considering the settlements legal either but instead would defer to judgement of Israeli courts.

19 Nov 2019 8:59 AM

Two Arkansas college chemistry professors have been arrested on charges of making meth, in an apparent case of life imitating art. (Photo: AP)

2 US chemistry professors arrested for cooking meth at university

Tina Hall, a spokeswoman for the Arkadelphia-based school, says Bateman and Rowland have been on administrative leave since October 11.

18 Nov 2019 3:53 PM

Several people were shot dead while watching a football game at a central California home on Sunday, police said. (Representational Image)

4 shot dead while watching football at backyard party in California

Police have not released a death toll but said nine people had been shot in the attack.

18 Nov 2019 12:23 PM

The extension will be announced on Monday, when the earlier reprieve is set to expire.

US to extend license for its companies to continue business with Huawei

The extension of around two weeks is far shorter than the prior 90-day extension and a longer extension is in the works.

18 Nov 2019 7:40 AM

A US businesswoman at the centre of controversy over whether Boris Johnson showed her inappropriate favouritism amid an alleged affair said Sunday she had been left "heartbroken" and "humiliated" by the British Prime Minister. (Photo: File)

'Heartbroken, humiliated': US businesswoman on affair with UK PM

The show alleges the pair had an affair for more than four years, though Arcuri refused to confirm this.

17 Nov 2019 11:34 AM

California detectives struggled Friday to attribute a motive to a school shooting carried out by a boy scout with no obvious alarm bells in his background for the carnage he would unleash. (Photo: AP)

‘Deliberate attack’ by ‘sociable’ teen: Cops baffled over US school shooter’s motive

The students slain by Berhow were identified as Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 15, and a 14-year-old boy.

16 Nov 2019 10:23 AM

Amid the ongoing impeachment hearings against him by a Democrats-dominated Congressional panel, US President Donald Trump has asserted that he has the right to speak and the freedom of speech. (Photo: File)

‘I have the right to speak,’ says Donald Trump amid impeachment hearings

The US President said he watched the second-day public hearing on impeachment against him by the Congressional Committee.

16 Nov 2019 9:56 AM

Captain Kent Wegener of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told reporters the entire incident, captured on videotape, took 16 seconds as the young man stood in one spot and fired on one student after another. (Photo: Twitter)

On 16th birthday, California student walks into high school and opens fire; 2 killed

The teenaged gunman, whose name was not provided by police, survived the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

15 Nov 2019 8:54 AM

The US last week formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Climate accord, a landmark global agreement which brought together 188 nations, including India, to combat global warming. (Photo: File)

Garbage dropped by China, India into sea 'floats into Los Angeles': Trump

Terming climate change as 'complex issue', Trump said he considers himself to be, 'in many ways, an environmentalist, believe it or not'.

13 Nov 2019 3:36 PM

Trump was touting the strength of the US economy in a speech to business executives in New York and said the rest of the world wants to get its share. (Photo: File)

'Dictators, it's ok, come on in': Donald Trump at New York event

Trump said he's happy to deal with any kind of foreign leader able to help the United States.

13 Nov 2019 2:31 PM

One such video is making rounds on social media, where a lady was being sworn in as a lawyer while the judge held her baby, and it is, undoubtedly, winning hearts. (Photo: Screengrab)

US mom takes oath to become lawyer while judge holds her baby, video goes viral

State Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dinkins was seen bouncing the kid in one arm while he read the oath of admission to Juliana Lamar.

13 Nov 2019 1:53 PM

The United States on Sunday urged Iraqi authorities to hold early polls and carry out electoral reforms, and called for an end to the violence against protesters that has left hundreds dead. (Photo: File)

US urges early Iraq elections, halt to violence against protesters

The committee said snipers were active near protest sites and hunting rifles were used against demonstrators as well.

11 Nov 2019 1:17 PM

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