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China challenges US to reduce nuclear arsenal to its level

The US has repeatedly called for China to join in trilateral negotiations to extend a flagship nuclear arms treaty...

8 July 2020 11:35 AM IST

An Israeli flag flies over a Jewish owned house in a Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem. (AP)

Jerusalem is a grim model of what could happen to West Bank...

Israeli leaders paint Jerusalem as a model of coexistence, but Palestinian residents face widespread discrimination and...

8 July 2020 10:23 AM IST

US president Donald Trump. (AP)

US officially notifies UN of withdrawal from World Health Organization

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says he would reverse the decision on his first day in...

8 July 2020 9:44 AM IST

Statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Washington, DC. (Photo: courtesy Indian Embassy)

US university says no to removing Gandhi statue

An Indian-origin student had launched an online petition demanding that the statue be removed in solidarity to Black...

8 July 2020 9:21 AM IST

World Health Organization headquarters at Geneva. (AFP)

WHO acknowledges 'evidence' of COVID-19 airborne spread

The change in the WHO's assessment of risk of transmission could affect its current advice on keeping 1 metre of...

8 July 2020 9:00 AM IST

Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro. (AFP)

Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro tests COVID-19 positive

Brazil, the world's sixth-biggest nation, with more than 210 million people, is one of the outbreak's most lethal hot...

8 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

North Korea on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, repeated it has no immediate intent to resume dialogue with the United States hours before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun was to arrive in South Korea for discussions on the stalled nuclear diplomacy. (AP Photo)

North Korea rejects talks ahead of US envoy's arrival in Seoul

North Korea ridiculed South's nonsensical calls for revived negotiations between US and Pyongyang when it lost its...

7 July 2020 3:32 PM IST

International students in US may be deported if their universities switch to online-only classes due to COVID. (AP Photo)

US asks foreign students to leave country if classes go online

US will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programmes that are fully online for the fall semester

7 July 2020 12:15 PM IST

A nuclear accord with the US signed in 2015 by the Obama administration, under which Iran would stop all nuclear activity, was unilaterally abandoned by the Trump administration in 2018. Since September 2019, Iran began enriching uranium at the Natanz facility, where the accident took place on Thursday. This photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Photo | AP)

Accident at site damages Iran's nuclear programme restarted after US...

The accident at a warehouse could slow the production of centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

6 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

An IAF helicopter flies in the sky, in Leh, Ladakh. (PTI)

Troops taking effective measures to disengage and ease tensions: China

China's People's Liberation Army was seen removing tents and structures at patrolling point 14, the sources in New Delhi...

6 July 2020 4:17 PM IST

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Kuwait's new expat bill may force 8 lakh Indians to leave the country

Indians, who constitutes the largest expat community in Kuwait, should not exceed 15 percent of its total population...

6 July 2020 3:29 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping. (AFP)

China detains professor who criticised Xi over coronavirus

Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government in China's heavily censored academia, was taken from his home in...

6 July 2020 2:16 PM IST