Archives for October 1, 2016
Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in U.S. presidential race – Reuters/Ipsos poll
NEW YORK: Democrat Hillary Clinton has a 5 percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the presidential race, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday, roughly…
Trump goes on offensive against former beauty queen, Clinton calls him “unhinged”
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escalated his attacks on a former beauty queen with a vague and unsubstantiated allegation about a sex tape in pre-dawn Twitter posts on Friday…
UN chief offers mediation between India and Pakistan
NEW YORK: Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday to discuss escalating tensions between nuclear-armed states India and Pakistan, after…
Philippines’ Duterte likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users
MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers…
USA refuses to confirm India’s ‘surgical strike’ claim
WASHINGTON: Deputy Spokesperson of the United States Department of State, Mike Toner, said on Saturday that it was not for the USA to confirm whether Indian claims of conducting surgical…
Israeli troops kill Palestinian who stabbed guard at West Bank checkpoint
WEST BANK: A Palestinian who stabbed and wounded an Israeli security guard at a main military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank that separates Ramallah and Jerusalem, was shot and…