BEIJING, Apr 24 (Reuters): China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers' meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice-breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.The Belt and Road is...
Read moreGENEVA, Apr 24 (Agencies): Russia on Tuesday urged a United Nations nuclear disarmament forum to show its support for the "fragile" Iran nuclear accord by signing onto a statement, co-written by China, backing the deal.The head of the arms control unit at Russia's foreign ministry, Vladimir Yermakov, called on UN...
Read moreMoon Jae-in SEOUL, Apr 24 (Agencies): South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he will raise the issue of Japanese citizens who were abducted decades ago by North Korea in his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week.Moon's office said Wednesday he told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
Read moreMUMBAI, Apr 24 (Reuters): Police in central India killed at least 34 Maoist militants, with more bodies pulled out of a river on Tuesday, two days after security forces ambushed a band of fighters in a forest deep in the interior of Maharashtra state, authorities said.On Monday evening, a day...
Read moreRAQA, Apr 24 (AFP): The stench is overwhelming, but Fawaz does not let it stop him. Stepping around the blue body bags, he searches for his brother's remains in the largest mass grave uncovered in Syria's Raqa.The sacks are lined up on an otherwise bare football pitch neighbouring Raqa's national...
Read moreBEIJING, Apr 24 (AFP): A fire tore through a karaoke lounge in China on Tuesday, killing 18 people and injuring another five, as authorities arrested an arson suspect who had reportedly blocked the entrance with a motorcycle.The fire started after midnight in a three-storey building in Yingde, Guangdong province, and...
Read more5.3-magnitude quake hits HokkaidoTOKYO, Apr 24: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 struck off the southeast coast of the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, at 5:53 p.m. local time on Tuesday, the weather agency here said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor, which...
Read moreLONDON: British artist Gillian Wearing (centre) reacting as she is posing for photograph with Mayor Sadiq Khan (centre from left) and British journalist and campaigner Caroline Criado Perez following the unveiling of her sculpture of suffragist and women's rights campaigner Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square in London on Tuesday to...
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