Month: May 2019

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a visit to Iran as early as mid-June, NHK television said on Friday. This would be the first such trip in four decades, as global concern grows about tension between Tehran and Washington. Japan was a major buyer of Iranian oil for decades before US sanctions. Iran said…

Impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s triumph in the recent parliamentary election, a Muslim woman named her newborn son after him, sparking a variety of reactions among political groups and people online. A woman from Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state with a large Muslim population, filed papers to have her newborn son registered as…

The euroskeptic Brexit Party headed by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is looking at a solid victory in the European elections, early exit polls show, placing it at about 30 percent, over 20 percent ahead of the Conservatives. The Brexit Party appears to have scored big in the UK’s portion of the European Parliament elections,…

Hollywood actor Jon Voight has hailed Donald Trump as the greatest US president since Abraham Lincoln for making all the right moves, much to the delight and disgust of Twitter. Voight trended on Twitter after posting his two-part video endorsement of Trump addressed to “My fellow Americans,” in which the film star commended the president…

The NewsGuard news rating app was a blatant attempt to direct news consumers to pro-establishment sources while punishing alternative outlets with low trust ratings — but will the newly launched Credder be any different? A better question to ask might be, can any news rating app — no matter who its founders, backers and users…

Marine Le Pen has called on French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly after her party took over the bloc led by the French president in European elections. “The President has no other choice but to dissolve the National Assembly and allow for a more democratic voting system in order to better represent…

Foreign deployments have seemingly taken a heavy toll on the German Army, which has been already struggling with personnel shortages as hundreds of soldiers return from the missions physically or mentally crippled, a report says. As many as 800 soldiers of the German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr, have been deemed unfit for further military service…

Baghdad has called on Iran to respect the deal covering its nuclear program, which has been weakened by the US decision to withdraw from it and Tehran’s backing away from certain commitments. “We think the JCPOA is a good agreement,” said Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim. Iraq’s top diplomat was referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan…

Russia ensured they left the Ice Hockey World Championship with the consolation of bronze as they earned a shootout win over the Czech Republic after the pair had finished locked at 2-2 following overtime. Russian goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy of NHL club Tampa Bay Lightning was the shootout hero, saving three attempts while Jakub Vrana also…

Police in India arrested five cow vigilantes who beat two men and a woman in a viral video that sparked outrage on social media after the victims of the attack were arrested days before the perpetrators. Five men were arrested in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh for assaulting two men and a woman for allegedly transporting beef,…