Seoul, Dec 29 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made relatively fewer public appearances in 2017 since he assumed power in 2011 and about 30 per cent less than 2016, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said on Friday. Kim conducted 94 inspections in factories, farms, or military facilities which are widely publicized by the state media, […]
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WhatsApp enables ‘Reply Privately’ feature by mistake
London, Dec 29 (IANS) WhatsApp mistakenly rolled out the ‘Reply Privately’ feature in a beta update that will allow users to privately send a message to a participant in a group without anyone else knowing about it. According to Express.co.uk, the hotly-anticipated feature is under development and could be rolled out with other features as […]
Australian PM Turnbull fined for not wearing life-jacket on boat
Sydney, Dec 29 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was fined on Friday for not wearing a life-jacket while steering his inflatable dinghy near his residence on the Sydney Harbour. The Prime Minister was photographed at the helm of the motorised dinghy on Wednesday. He was wearing a T-shirt but no life-jacket, a breach of […]
Fake news inquiry: Facebook, Twitter face sanctions in Britain
London, Dec 29 (IANS) Facebook and Twitter have been warned of sanctions if they fail to provide all the necessary information to a British Parliamentary committee investigating Russian interference in the EU referendum through spread of the so called “fake news” on the social networking platforms, a media report said. The social media giants have […]
Trump to undergo customary presidential physical
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) US President Donald Trump will undergo a customary physical on January 12, 2018, the White House has announced. The White House on Thursday confirmed the date, reports Xinhua news agency. “The President’s doctor will give a readout of the exam after it’s completed,” the statement said. White House press secretary Sarah […]
US court upholds fine against bakers who refused lesbian couple
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) A US court has upheld a decision for a bakery to pay $135,000 in fine to a lesbian couple who they had refused to serve in the state of Oregon. The owners of Sweet Cakes, Aaron Klein and his wife Melissa, refused to bake a wedding cake for the same-sex couple, […]
Russia inquiry makes US look very bad: Trump
Moscow, Dec 29 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he believes Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, will treat him fairly and insisted there has been “no collusion” discovered by the inquiry, a media report said. In an interview to The New York Times on Thursday, Trump said of the […]
Trump mocks Vanity Fair for apologising to Hillary Clinton
New York, Dec 29 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has mocked the Vanity Fair magazine for apologising to Hillary Clinton over a video that poked fun at the former Secretary of State, the media reported. “Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologising for the minor […]
12 dead in New York apartment blaze
New York, Dec 29 (IANS) At least 12 persons were reported dead in a fire that raged through a New York City apartment in the Bronx area, the US media reported. More than 170 firefighters were on the scene of the huge blaze late on Thursday that also saw more than a dozen critical injuries, […]
US recognizes ‘poor’ relation with Russia, seeks cooperation on Syria
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) The United States, while maintaining “a poor relationship” with Russia, still needs to work with Russia in areas of mutual interests including Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said. Washington and Moscow remained widely confrontational this year amid the ongoing investigation of Russia’s interference in the US presidential election, […]