Kochi, An Emirates flight from Dubai to Jakarta made an emergency landing early on Saturday morning at Cochin International Airport after a passenger onboard suffered uneasiness, but he died before reaching a private hospital near here, said hospital authorities. According to the Little Flower Hospital authorities, the 59-year-old Indonesian national,[Read More…]
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Killing of millions of indigenous Americans changed global climate: Study
Washington, When European settlers arrived in the Americas, they killed over 56 million indigenous Americans which led to a change in the global climate, a new study finds. The settlers killed the indigenous people for more than 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swathes of farmland[Read More…]
Angela Merkel shutting down her Facebook page
London, Giving another clue Angela Merkel is in the final phase of her political career, the German Chancellor has announced she is closing down her Facebook page which has more than 2.5 million followers. Merkel, who handed the leadership of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in December,[Read More…]
US Senator Cory Booker announces 2020 presidential bid
Washington, Cory Booker, a Democratic Senator from the US state of New Jersey, has announced that he is running for president in 2020. Booker, a former mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and the first African American senator from New Jersey, made the announcement on Friday on Twitter, Xinhua[Read More…]
Trump to announce date, venue of second meeting with Kim next week
US President Donald Trump has said the date and location of his second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have been decided, and will be announced next week. “We’ll be announcing the location and… the exact date it will be… it’ll be end of February,” Trump told reporters at[Read More…]
Steven Pruitt: Man behind 1/3rd of all English articles on Wikipedia
How often have you stumbled about a topic and ended up looking for information about it on Wikipedia? Could be quite a few times. At average on Wikipedia as many as six-thousand people come. Unlike many other online encyclopedias Wikipedia is completely free and solely works on the contributions made[Read More…]
God wanted Donald Trump to become President: White House official
Washington: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she believes that God wanted President Donald Trump to win the 2016 election, the media reported. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become President,[Read More…]
Pro-Russian Twitter account used material from Robert Mueller’s team to discredit probe
Washington: The US Justice Department has alleged that a pro-Russian Twitter account spread confidential information from a criminal case that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team brought against a Moscow-based company for social media conspiracy. The development on Wednesday highlights just how tense the standoff has become between US law enforcement[Read More…]
Tibetan children banned from attending classes in monasteries: Human Rights Watch
Beijing: A county in China’s Qinghai province, which is adjacent to the Tibetan Autonomous Region, has banned Tibetan children from attending informal classes at local monasteries, Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday. The ban, officially published last month, “violates a long list of basic rights, from education to cultural life”,[Read More…]
Comedian Bill Cosby targeted by drone in prison
Los Angeles: Comedian Bill Cosby was targeted by a drone while he was in the yard of his Pennsylvania prison last week. Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt confirmed that the drone was spotted over the prison SCI Phoenix in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where Cosby has been locked up since September 2018 after[Read More…]
