Month: May 2019

India’s prime minister attracted ire and bemusement yesterday after donning saffron robes to meditate in a Himalayan cave, as the country votes in that final stage of its election. In pictures released by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the PM is seen wearing the orange garments synonymous with Hindu priests and sitting cross-legged in…

Click:Bubble Chandeliers Joko Widodo, the incumbent Indonesian President, won last month’s election by a comfortable ten percent margin over his rival, retired General Prabowo Subianto, the country’s election commission announced early on Tuesday. The official result of 55.5% for Mr Widodo, 57, and 44.5% for his challenger confirmed unofficial counts by pollsters of the April…

Two British men have been found guilty of coercion after they forced a waitress who was never seen again into their car outside a Costa del Sol nightclub. A Malaga court on Monday sentenced Westley Capper, the 41-year-old son of a British millionaire property developer, to two years for bundling Agnese Klavina into his Mercedes.…

Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being subjected to forced marriage, prostitution and sadistic abuse by trafficking gangs running a multi-million dollar illicit sex industry in China. A report by the Korea Future Initiative (KFI), which will be presented in the House of Commons on Monday, forensically details how vulnerable women and girls…

The US is "afraid" of war with Iran, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said as tensions between Tehran and Washington intensified over the weekend. Major General Hossein Salami told the Iranian state news agency, IRNA, that the country does not want war. "The difference between us and them is that they are afraid of…

Tajikistan’s government blamed the Islamic State (Isil) for a riot in a prison on Sunday that killed 32 people, the second time in six months it has accused the extremist group of stoking prison violence. Supporters of Isil armed with knives killed five inmates and three guards at the prison in Vakhdat, near the capital…

When Matteo Salvini  took to the stage in Milan on Saturday afternoon, he knew he was among friends. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally, had already warmed up the crowd. Geert Wilders, the leader of the Netherlands’ party of Freedom, tapped him on the shoulder to grab a selfie.  Click Here: Sports Water Bottles And…

American spy chiefs are offering $250,000 in prize money for a competition that will test how successfully someone can predict future unknowns such as political election results or missile tests.  The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity [IARPA], which sits within the office of America’s top intelligence official, is behind the challenge, which is designed to…

French and Spanish authorities convened on Friday to determine the fate of a sheep-killing bear after furious farmers threatened to take the law into their own hands.  The bear, Claverina, was one of two brown bears airlifted into the French Pyrenees from Slovenia in order to repopulate the region last October. She has since ravaged eight…

It was supposed to have been the election the opposition Labor Party couldn’t lose. But on Saturday voters in Australia stunned the political establishment by delivering a shock victory for the ruling centre-Right Liberals. “I have always believed in miracles!” Scott Morrison, the prime minister, told loyalists in Sydney. “I’m standing with the three biggest…