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Russia ready to facilitate US-N Korea talks: Lavrov

MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Agencies): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged the United States and North Korea to start negotiations amid growing tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, the RIA news agency reported.Lavrov was cited as saying that Russia was ready to facilitate such negotiations.Moscow has long called for Washington and...

Pope urges followers not to ignore plight of millions of migrants

VATICAN CITY, Dec 25 (BBC): Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholics not to ignore the plight of millions of migrants "driven from their land", during Christmas Eve Mass.The pontiff compared them to Mary and Joseph, recounting the Biblical story of how they travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem but found no...

NZ musician scraps Tel Aviv concert amid boycott calls

JERUSALEM, Dec 25 (AP): Lorde has cancelled a performance in Israel scheduled for next summer after appeals by pro-Palestinian activists.The New Zealand musician said in a statement Sunday that "the right decision at this time" was to cancel her June 2018 concert in Tel Aviv, which was announced earlier this...

Pakistan allows Indian death-row spy’s family to meet him

ISLAMABAD, Dec 25 (BBC): The family of an Indian ex-navy officer facing a death sentence for spying in Pakistan has been allowed to visit him.The mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav met him in Islamabad on Monday, amid arguments between the two countries over his conviction.Pakistan said Mr Jadhav was...

Philippines storm toll hits 240

MANILA, Dec 25 (Agencies): The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday.Tropical Storm Tembin on Friday struck the country's main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or...

China builds first lab to monitor atmospheric environment

HEFEI, Dec 25 (Xinhua): China started building its first national engineering laboratory for atmospheric environmental monitoring on Sunday in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.Jointly launched by the Hefei government and Hefei Institute of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the lab aims to develop advanced...

Driver rams German party headquarters in suicide bid

BERLIN, Dec 25 (Reuters): A man drove a car at the entrance of the Berlin headquarters of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) late on Sunday evening, lightly injuring himself in what police said was an apparent suicide attempt.Police said the car, which crashed through the first set of glass doors...

Syrian, Iranian backed forces advance in Israel border area

DAMASCUS, Dec 25 (Reuters): Syrian army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon in a new expansion of Tehran's influence in the war-torn country.The army and the Shia forces advanced east and south of the Sunni-rebel...

News in Brief -(26-12-2017)

Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as storm proceedsHANOI, Dec 25: Hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam's Mekong Delta have been evacuated as the region braces for the arrival of Tropical Storm Tembin, which left more than 150 people dead in the Philippines. Weather forecasters say the delta's southern tip...