Times of India

on 17 January 2020 at 13:08

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to usher in a "new era" of ties with Myanmar after a red carpet welcome on Friday aimed at buttressing the embattled government of Aung San Suu Kyi and driving through multi-billion-dollar infrastructure deals. China has become an indispensable ally for Myanmar as it reels from Western isolation over Rohingya crisis.

on 17 January 2020 at 12:19

on 17 January 2020 at 12:16

on 17 January 2020 at 12:02

In the first such case in South Korea, military officials will determine next week whether to discharge a solider who recently undertook gender reassessment surgery, officials said Friday.

on 17 January 2020 at 11:53

In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told thousands of Iranians who chanted "Death to America" that European states could not be trusted after they launched a nuclear agreement dispute mechanism.

on 17 January 2020 at 08:28

But the changes have come at a terrible cost for Charles, who has seen his brother Prince Andrew disgraced and his once close sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, become estranged. The trials and tribulations of Andrew and Harry - one tainted for a close friendship with a convicted sex offender, the other unwilling to continue his high-profile role - will take both out of their royal duties, leaving a smaller, more modest royal apparatus.

on 17 January 2020 at 08:24

​​"To remove any doubts about our respect for and trust in the president, I have written a resignation letter and handed it over to the president," Oleksiy Goncharuk wrote on his official Facebook page.

on 17 January 2020 at 08:04

Trump is so confident that his Republican party majority will stay loyal that he sees no risk in jetting to Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum on Tuesday, right as lawmakers convene for the historic trial.

on 17 January 2020 at 07:09

Taiwan is China's most sensitive territorial and diplomatic issue and Beijing has never ruled out the use of force to bring the island under its control. The narrow Taiwan Strait which separates the island from China is a frequent source of tension.

on 17 January 2020 at 04:52

At least 11 American troops were injured in an Iranian attack on an Iraqi base where American soldiers were deployed, US Central Command said Thursday, although the US military had previously maintained there were no casualties. At the time of the attack, most of the 1,500 US soldiers at the base had been tucked away in bunkers.

on 17 January 2020 at 03:14

Wearing bright bow ties and dark dress, a group of South Korean women belt out song after song about the joy and stigma of being gay — part of a growing clamour for LGBT+ rights in Asia. “Unnie Choir” sang about their struggles at a sold-out concert in the socially conservative nation, where homosexuality remains taboo despite rapid economic advances in recent decades.

on 17 January 2020 at 02:40

The impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be "impartial" in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office. Trump has ridiculed the impeachment process for months, and he responded to the opening of the trial by once more branding it a "hoax."

on 16 January 2020 at 17:58

on 16 January 2020 at 16:24

on 16 January 2020 at 14:22

Amid calls for its 5,200 troops to leave after a US air strike killed top Iranian and Iraqi commanders this month, here is an overview of the US military presence in Iraq. The March 2003 US-led invasion is launched after claims that Saddam Hussein's regime is harbouring weapons of mass destruction.

on 16 January 2020 at 13:28

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on 16 January 2020 at 06:01

"All the evidence against Pakistan has been put on the table. Pakistan has taken some action...there has been some progress. Pakistan has to do a lot more and take non-reversible action," Gareth Bayley, UK foreign and commonwealth office director for south asia, said at an interactive session at Raisina Dialogue 2020 here.

on 16 January 2020 at 04:53

on 16 January 2020 at 02:37

Lawmakers voted 228 to 193 to give the Senate, controlled by Donald Trump's fellow Republicans, the task of putting him on trial on charges of abuse of power. The vote, which also approved a team of seven Democratic lawmakers named by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as prosecutors in the trial, was largely along party lines.