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January 5, 2017 7:57 AM

UK Senior diplomat Sir Tim Barrow appointed new ambassador to EU

UK Senior diplomat Sir Tim Barrow has been appointed the new ambassador to the EU, replacing Sir Ivan Rogers. Downing Street described the former ambassador to Moscow from 2011 to 2015, who will now play a key role in the UK's Brexit talks, as a seasoned and tough negotiator. <br/><br/...

January 5, 2017 7:51 AM

UN chief Antonio Guterres speaks with US President-elect Donald Trump

New United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday a week after Trump slammed the world body on Twitter. Guterres, a former Portuguese Prime Minister and UN refugee Chief who began his five-year term on Sunday, spoke by phone with Trump, who wi...

January 5, 2017 7:49 AM

Former Prime Minister of Kosovo Haradinaj arrested for alleged war crimes

French police has arrested the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj based on a Serbian arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. <br/><br/>Haradinaj served as a rebel commander in the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict, which eventually led to the Kosovo declaring independence. He twice ...

January 5, 2017 7:47 AM

Indonesia will soon restore military ties with Australian: Marise Payne

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne has said, she is confident Indonesia will soon restore military ties with her nation. Indonesia suspended all military co-operation yesterday saying a lot of things needed to be improved. <br/><br/>Australian officials said the complaint concerned...

January 5, 2017 6:50 AM

Scientists in Ireland discover a new human organ in digestive system

Scientists have discovered what they are calling a new human organ that exists in the digestive system. Named the mesentery, the organ was previously thought to consist of fragmented and disparate structures. <br/><br/>Researchers found, however, that it is one continuous organ and outli...

January 4, 2017 10:20 PM

Haiti: Jovenel Moise confirmed winner of presidential election

Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise has been officially declared winner of November's presidential election. An electoral tribunal confirmed, Mr Moise, a 48-year-old banana exporter, was elected with 55.6 per cent of the vote, well ahead of his closest rival. Officials dismissed allegations of fr...

January 4, 2017 10:04 PM

Turkey nightclub attack: Gunman identified, says minister

Turkey's Foreign Minister says officials know the identity of a gunman who carried out the Istanbul nightclub attack on New Year's Eve but he has stopped short of naming him. Mevlut Cavusoglu gave no further details about the inquiry into the murder of 39 people at the Reina club. Jihadist...

January 4, 2017 8:40 PM

India asks China to hear voice of world in dealing terrorism

India today asked China to hear the voice of the world in dealing with terrorism. Responding to a media query in New Delhi on blocking India's proposal by China to designate JeM Chief Masood Azhar as a terrorist Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar said India hopes that it would be ...

January 4, 2017 8:30 PM

Trump makes fresh assault on America's intelligence community

US President-elect Donald Trump has made a fresh assault on America's intelligence community. He said that an intelligence briefing he was due to receive on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election - which is said to have benefited Mr Trump - had been delayed. But US intelligence offic...

January 4, 2017 7:11 PM

Lankan PM expects 2 to 3 bn US dollar investment in country

Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wicremsinghe has said that he expects two to three billion US dollar investment in his country during the year. Unveiling the economic vision for the country for next three years in Colombo today, Mr. Wickremsinghe said that Sri Lanka along with its south Asian neighbors account ...

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