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November 4, 2016 8:59 PM

Venezuelan President rejects early election amid fragile political truce

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected calls from the opposition for an early election, amid a fragile and fraying political truce in the country. In a national address, the President said, there can be no ultimatums. Mr Maduro's supporters massed outside the Miraflores Presidential p...

November 4, 2016 8:01 PM

Venezuelan President rejected early election amid fragile political truce

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected calls from the opposition for an early election, amid a fragile and fraying political truce in the country. In a national address, the President said, there can be no ultimatums. Mr Maduro's supporters massed outside the Miraflores Presidential p...

November 4, 2016 7:03 PM

Paris climate change agreement becomes international law

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change becomes international law today. The agreement requires governments to develop climate action plans that will be periodically revised.<br/><br/>UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to commemorate "this ...

November 4, 2016 6:55 PM

Paris climate change agreement becomes international law

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change becomes international law today a landmark demonstrating that countries are serious about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter faster than scientists expected. <br/><br/>The agreement requires government...

November 4, 2016 6:54 PM

Thousands protest in Jakarta against guv's alleged blasphemy

Tens of thousands of hard-line Muslims are marching against the Governor of Jakarta, demanding he is prosecuted for blasphemy. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian, is the first ethnic Chinese to hold the governor's post in the capital of majority Muslim Indonesia. Protesters earlier gathered at...

November 4, 2016 5:42 PM

Death toll in Indonesia boat sinking jumps to 54

In Indonesia, the death toll from a speedboat accident has climbed to 54. According to official sources, search teams today pulled another 36 corpses from the sea around Batam island, south of Singapore. <br/><br/>Local police chief Sam Budi Gusdian told reporters in Batam that the overc...

November 4, 2016 2:08 PM

UK announces new visa policy for non-EU nationals

UK has announced changes to its visa policy for non-EU nationals, which will affect a large number of Indians especially IT professionals. Under the new visa rules announced last evening by the Home Office, anyone applying after November 24 under the Tier 2 intra-company transfer (ICT) category woul...

November 4, 2016 2:05 PM

Paris climate pact enters into force, focus shifts to action

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change agreed last year officially entered into force today, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start executing plans to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.<br/><br/>The pact seeks to keep a global temperature rise this century well below ...

November 4, 2016 1:28 PM

Bangladesh: Miscreants set ablaze six more houses of minority community

In Bangladesh, miscreants have set fire to six more houses of the minority Hindu community in Nasirnagar upazilla of Brahmanbaria district in east-central part of the country early this morning. The attack comes less than four days after groups of people went on rampage in several areas of the upazi...

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