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Seoul, Apr 24: An official North Korean website warned today that Pyongyang will "wipe out" the United States if Washington starts a war on the peninsula, the latest tit- for-tat sabre-rattling that has sent tensions soaring in the region. The US supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in waters off the Korean peninsula "in a matter of days", Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday, amid reports the

Paris, Apr 24: Centrist Emmanuel Macron finished ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen today to qualify alongside her for the runoff in France's presidential election, initial projections suggested. Macron was projected to score 23-24 percent, with Le Pen at 21.6-23 per cent, according to several polling institutes. If the first-round result is confirmed, it would put the 39-year-old pro-Europe

New Delhi, Apr 23: Appreciating that Indo-Israel ties were more “visible” after the Modi government has come to power, Israel said on Sunday that India's policy of not having a “zero-sum game” while dealing with the Jewish nation and the Arab countries has sent a strong message. Ahead of first prime ministerial visit from India, expected to take place in July, Israeli Ambassador here Daniel Carmon

Mazar-i-sharif, Apr 23: Survivors of a deadly Taliban assault on an Afghan military base described leaping from windows to escape gunmen shooting soldiers as they prayed, as grieving families today collected coffins draped in the Afghan flag. Afghan officials have said more than 100 soldiers were killed or wounded in the assault on the base outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif Friday, the

Washington, Apr 22: Vivek Murthy, the first Indian-American appointed by the Obama regime as the Surgeon General, has been dismissed by the Trump administration to bring new leadership to the vital public health sector. Dr Murthy, 39, has been replaced by his deputy, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, one of the first nurses to serve as surgeon general. "Murthy, the leader of the US Public Health

San Francisco, Apr 22: When Gokul Gunasekaran was offered a full scholarship for a graduate program in electrical engineering at Stanford University, he saw it as the chance of a lifetime. He had grown up in Chennai, India, and had a solid job offer with a large oil company after getting his undergraduate degree. He came to America instead, got the Stanford degree and now works as an engineer at a

Washington, Apr 22: Iran is failing to fulfill the “spirit” of its nuclear deal with world powers, President Donald Trump has declared, setting an ominous tone for his forthcoming decision about whether to pull the US out of the landmark agreement. As he often had during the president campaign, Trump ripped into the deal struck by Iran, the US and other world powers in 2015 and said “it shouldn't

Washington, Apr 21: The US state of Arkansas carried out its first execution in nearly a decade, the state's attorney general said, proceeding despite criticism that its controversial plan to execute several prisoners by the end of the month was rushed. Ledell Lee, 51, was put to death late last night after the US Supreme Court rejected eleventh-hour requests to stay the execution. He received

Paris, Apr 21: A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in central Paris on Thursday night in an attack carried out days before presidential elections and quickly claimed by the Islamic State militant group. President Francois Hollande said he was convinced the "cowardly killing" on the Champs Elysees boulevard, in which the assailant was shot dead by police, was an act of

New Delhi, Apr 20: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe PM Nawaz Sharif and his family's involvement in corruption in the Panama Papers case. In a split judgement, the court cited insufficient evidence to outright convict and remove Sharif from office. A five-judge bench, comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Gulzar Ahmed