Brussels, (IANS/EFE) European Union foreign ministers agreed here Monday to explore crafting a bilateral accord with Havana that would permit the 27-nation bloc to go beyond the “common position” that governs its relations with the island. The ministers, meeting in Brussels, urged top EU diplomat Catherine Ashton to prepare a plan to negotiate a cooperation [...]
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By Paras Ramoutar Port of Spain, (IANS) Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, had sought the assistance of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to regain US-controlled bases in the Caribbean nation, a top politician said. Williams, who was prime minister during 1962-1981, sent former deputy prime minister Kamaluddin Mohammed to [...]
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Phnom Penh, (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday held bilateral meetings with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Philippines President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to discuss various issues including maritime piracy and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. Officials said the prime minister discussed ways to deepen India’s engagement with the Asean nations [...]
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By Ranjana Narayan On Board Air India One, (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will have bilateral meetings with six leaders, including outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, on the sidelines of the Asean-India and East Asia summits in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, in a briefing to accompanying newspersons on board the special [...]
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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), (IANS) The world’s trend is towards openness and more democracy and the new Chinese leadership will have to follow it, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said here Saturday. “The world’s trend is towards openness and more democracy, more freedom and rule of law. No matter how powerful the Chinese government is, [...]
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Tokyo, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Radiation levels in fish caught near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are 100 times above normal, media reports said. Japan’s environment ministry carried out the tests in June-July this year in the Niida river to the north of the Fukushima plant, and also in the village of Iitate. The results showed that [...]
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Beijing, (IANS) China will continue to promote friendship with its neighbours in a mutually beneficial manner, and will make sure its own development brings more benefits to its nearby countries, a minister has said. Vice foreign minister Fu Ying said the world was watching how a more developed China would choose to use its strength, [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday said that the Pakistan Army, widely seen as anti-India, was in favour of peace with New Delhi and stressed that the Kashmir issue, “the root cause of dispute”, needs to be resolved as it provides fuel to extremism in his country. “The festering wounds of Kashmir [...]
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Washington, (IANS) The US Friday eased decade-old import restrictions on Myanmar goods just days before President Barack Obama sets foot on the Southeast Asian nation. The Treasury Department said the move was taken to support the ongoing reform efforts in the nation, encourage “further change” and offer new opportunities for businesses in both countries, Xinhua [...]
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Cairo, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Friday warned Israel against the continuation of its military operation in Gaza, saying it will have to pay “a heavy price”. “Gaza will not remain alone as it was,” he tweeted on his Twitter page, according to the al-Masry al-Yaoum newspaper, adding that that the aggressors “know they [...]
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Washington, (IANS) Following the example of Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become the latest Republican to distance himself from the party’s defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Like Jindal, Christie who had endorsed Romney early in the primary process, did not buy the candidate’s argument that President Barack Obama won [...]
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Hyderabad, (IANS) Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday arrived in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district to study the socio-economic transformation of people in villages brought about by various government welfare schemes. The Nobel laureate arrived in Kothulagutta village around 9.30 a.m. in a helicopter from Bangalore. She was accompanied by Union Minister for Rural [...]
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By Arun Kumar Washington, (IANS) An Indian-American professor at Morgan State University has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding. Manoj Kumar Jha, 45, who oversees the university’s transportation engineering graduate programme allegedly fabricated an elaborate [...]
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Ankara, (IANS) Turkey has a offered to hold talks with Israel to end the escalating crisis in Gaza despite persisting rift between the two nations, a media report said. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters late Thursday that Turkey expects Israel to immediately halt the attacks on Gaza, which have left at least [...]
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