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New Yorkers to greet Trump's first visit home with protests

NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump returns to New York on Thursday for the first time since taking office, planning a bit of diplomacy as city officials brace for protests in the city where

/ 4th May 2017
Trump to work as 'mediator' between Israel, Palestine

Washington, May 4 (IANS) US President Donald Trump vowed to work as a "mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator" to help broker peace between the Israelis and Palestinians as he welcomed Palestinian President M

/ 4th May 2017
'N.Korea will never beg for China's friendship'

Seoul, May 4 (IANS) North Korea slammed China for criticising its nuclear weapons programme, saying it will never "beg" for Beijing's friendship, Pyongyang's state-run news agency said on Thursday.

/ 4th May 2017
Priyanka Chopra promotes UNICEF's initiative in Zimbabwe

Harare, May 4 (IANS) Actress Priyanka Chopra is in the Zimbabwean capital to promote UNICEF's initiative 'End Violence against Children as its Goodwill Ambassador. "We are here in Harare, Zimbabwe,

/ 4th May 2017
No meddling in Kashmir: China

Beijing, May 4 (IANS) China on Thursday said it won't meddle in the Kashmir row between India and Pakistan, calling it a bilateral dispute, days after a commentary in a daily indicated that Beijing is ready to

/ 4th May 2017
Baba Ramdev calls for '100 heads' for each Indian soldier's death

New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday said India should "not shy away from beheading 100, if they cut off the head of even one of our soldiers" - on the killing and mutilation of two Indian

/ 4th May 2017
Rising incomes, stability linked to declining female workforce participation

By Devanik Saha IANS/IndiaSpend Rising income levels and stability in families are disincentivising women from joining the labour force, according to a recent report by the World Bank, which analy

/ 4th May 2017
UK regional elections expected to give taste of national vote next month

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Britons began voting on Thursday in local and regional elections expected to give a taste of how far Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May's dominance extends before next month's nat

/ 4th May 2017
WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely availabl

/ 4th May 2017
UK's Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, to step down from royal duties

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Prince Philip, the 95-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, is to retire from carrying out royal engagements later this year, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday.

/ 4th May 2017
Squeezed by global powers, South Koreans seek 'Korea first' in new leader

SEOUL, May 4 (Reuters) - Jason Lim, a 36-year-old South Korean engineer living in Washington D.C., thinks it's important to try and maintain a solid alliance with the United States - but not at any cost. &nb

/ 4th May 2017
Dust storm envelops swathe of northern China, dragging air quality down

May 4 (REUTERS) Spring is northern China's dust storm season, when winds whip across the vast Gobi Desert picking up fine sand and dust particles and dumping them along a belt of heavily populated land further

/ 4th May 2017
China urges all sides in North Korea standoff to 'stop irritating' one another

BEIJING, May 4 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday urged all parties in the Korean standoff to stay calm and "stop irritating each other," a day after North Korea said the United States was pushing the region to the

/ 4th May 2017
Thyssenkrupp steelworkers protest against Tata merger plan

DUISBURG, Germany, May 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Thyssenkrupp steelworkers protested on Wednesday against the German industrial group's plan to merge its European steel operations with those of India's Tata St

/ 4th May 2017
Macron, Le Pen clash on euro, terrorism, in French pre-election TV showdown

PARIS, May 4 (Reuters) - Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron clashed over their vision of France's future, the euro and ways of fighting terrorism in an ill-tempered televised debate

/ 4th May 2017
Trump gains traction on healthcare bill, vote set for Thursday

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to roll back Obamacare gained momentum on Wednesday as Republican leaders scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday on newly revi

/ 4th May 2017
India gold demand seen muted in H2 on GST – WGC

MUMBAI, May 4 (Reuters) - Gold demand in India could be muted in the second half of 2017, as the rollout of the new Goods and Services tax (GST) from July is expected to dent appetite in the world's second-bigg

/ 4th May 2017
Hong Kong's next leader pledges to heal divisions, put city back on "normal course"

HONG KONG, May 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's next leader, Carrie Lam, vowed on Thursday to heal political and social divides, pledging to return the global financial hub to its "normal course of development". &n

/ 4th May 2017
India's cabinet takes decision on banking sector – Jaitley

NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) - India's cabinet has taken significant decisions on the country's banking sector, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, declining to give further details, saying it needed a Presidenti

/ 4th May 2017
Extortion in Dimapur, 8 land in police net

Dimapur, May 3 (MExN): All together eight persons have landed in Dimapur Police net for various charges of extortions in the past nine days, an official release informed today. The first arrest was

/ 3rd May 2017