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By Rekha Bhattacharjee, Sydney : Australian Senator Fraser Anning on Wednesday compared Muslims with “poisonous jelly beans”, following his “racist” maiden speech in the Senate seeking immigration restrictions based on race. Anning, from the conservative Katter’s Australian Party, advocated a ...

Seoul : Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a summit to discuss urgent issues, the media reported. Putin expressed his readiness to hold a summit with Kim at an “early date” in a ...

Washington : US President Donald Trump signed into law the $717 billion annual defence policy bill, the earliest in the year the bill has become law in more than four decades. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the most ...

Seoul : South Korea and North Korea on Monday agreed to hold a summit meeting of their leaders in Pyongyang in September. The agreement was made during high-level talks on the northern side of the peace village of Panmunjom that ...

Beijing : About 40 per cent of young Chinese entrepreneurs are female, according to a new report. The report was based on a survey of 6,928 entrepreneurs aged 16 to 35 and was jointly published by the China Foundation for ...

Moscow : Russia-US confrontation is extending to the economic and trade field as Washington is poised to slap new and powerful sanctions in a move Moscow views as the declaration of an “economic war”. The US State Department said on ...

Copenhagen: Denmark has been discussing adding jail terms to a controversial ban on the wearing of face veils in public that came into force on Aug. 1. Rachid Nekkaz, a French business executive of Algerian origin, has launched a fund ...

Washington : The US is set to impose more sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter using a Soviet-era nerve agent in the UK earlier this year, the State Department announced here. In ...

San Francisco : Owing to severe decline in monthly page visits, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, Facebook is set to cede its long-held second position among the top websites in the US to YouTube, ...

Jakarta : The death toll from Sunday’s devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok climbed to 347 on Wednesday as rescuers continued searching through the rubble, still hoping to find survivors, the National Disaster Management Agency said. The agency’s ...