Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will be addressing the United Nation General Assembly in New York on Monday. Several issues are going to be on his agenda, terrorism being the foremost. Other focus areas will include UN Security Council reforms, the piracy issue and the conflict in Syria. Krishna is also likely to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the session to discuss the ...
09:28 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad will be hosting India's first United Nations Conference on Biodiversity on Monday. Tight security arrangements are in place for the summit as it comes a day after the Telangana march that took a violent turn on Sunday with protesters going on a rampage, destroying media vans and public transport vehicles. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma assured that there will be no compromise on the security to the 19-day...
08:24 AM, Oct 01, 2012
United Nations: Muslim leaders were in unison at the United Nations this week arguing that the West was hiding behind its defense of freedom of speech and ignoring cultural sensitivities in the aftermath of anti-Islam slurs that have raised fears of a widening East-West cultural divide. A video made in California depicting the Prophet Mohammad as a fool sparked the storming of US and other Western embassies in many Islamic...
11:44 AM, Sep 29, 2012
There is a crisis brewing for those who have survived the fighting in Syria. The United Nations' refugee agency says up to 7,00,000 Syrian refugees could leave the country by the end of this year, nearly 4 times its original estimate. However, as CNN's Ivan Watson found out, it's recently become much harder to get out of Syria and across the border into Turkey. Watson found refugees waiting - in ...
12:44 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar's husband Feroz Gulzar has rubbished rumours about differences in their relationship as a campaign to malign his wife. Gulzar, an industrialist from Punjab province, was quoted by Geo News channel on Thursday as saying that the campaign to malign his wife was "rubbish" that does not merit comment. He further said there was "no premise for such trash" and that he would not...
02:59 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New York: In a move that is expected to give significant economic boost to Myanmar, the US has said it will begin easing restrictions on imports of goods from the South east Asian country in recognition of efforts by its government to bring the country back on the road to democracy. The announcement was made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her meeting with Myanmar's President U Thein Sein...
12:22 PM, Sep 27, 2012
United Nations: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the US of playing dual politics - supporting a revolution in the Middle East, while at the same time, gagging his whistleblower organisation. "It must have come as a surprise to the Egyptian teenagers who washed American teargas out of their eyes (during the Arab Spring) to hear that the US supported change in the Middle East," Assange said. "It's time...
10:52 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appealed to the US to stop persecuting him and his website for releasing classified US files. Assange has been holed up in Ecaudor since mid-June to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama. "It is time for President Obama to do the right thing and join the forces of change - not in fine words, but in fine deeds." ...
09:47 AM, Sep 27, 2012
United Nations: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said young people in cities like Mumbai, Seoul and Jakarta, who are eager to use their knowledge for the benefit of mankind, have given him "hope" about the world. "What gives me the most hope is not the actions of leaders - it is the people I've seen. The American troops who have risked their lives and sacrificed their limbs for strangers...
12:53 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Washington: The Wisconsin Gurdwara shooting incident, which left six Sikh worshipers dead, was an act of "senseless killing," US President Barack Obama has said, as he assured full support to the Sikh community in the country. "It was a senseless killing and it should not have happened," Obama told the Washington-based Sikh community leaders Dr Rajwant Singh and his wife Dr Balvinder Singh at a reception hosted by the US...
11:29 AM, Sep 26, 2012
US President Barack Obama condemned the movie but also said it was no excuse to target Americans. ...
09:05 AM, Sep 26, 2012
United Nations: Ecuador says it has invited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to address a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly via a videolink from his refuge in the country's London embassy. Assange will speak on Wednesday alongside Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino at a specially convened event to discuss his asylum case. The Australian activist is seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes...
08:24 AM, Sep 26, 2012
United Nations: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday invoked the words of Mahatma Gandhi in his address to the UN General Assembly in United Nations as he remembered US envoy to Libya who was killed in violent protests that erupted in the aftermath of an anti-Islam film, saying the "crude and disgusting" video was no excuse for an "attack on America". Obama took the stage at the UN General Assembly...
10:57 PM, Sep 25, 2012
United Nations: US President Barack Obama challenged the international community on Tuesday to confront the causes of turmoil in the Middle East, saying the attacks on US citizens in Libya "were attacks on America" and the world faces "a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common." Obama's speech to an annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly was...
09:42 PM, Sep 25, 2012
United Nations: India has said unauthorised intervention in the internal affairs of any nation during conflict situations should be avoided, stressing that peaceful settlement of disputes is key in maintaining global security and promoting rule of law. "We strongly believe in the peaceful handling of any conflict situation in accordance with the applicable legal principles by avoiding any unauthorized intervention in a State's internal affairs," India's Permanent Representative to the...
02:32 PM, Sep 25, 2012
United Nations: Iran's president called Israel a nuclear-armed "fake regime" shielded by the United States, prompting Israel's UN ambassador to walk out of a high-level UN meeting Monday promoting the rule of law. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the US and others of misusing freedom of speech and failing to speak out against the defamation of people's beliefs and "divine prophets," an apparent reference to the recently circulated amateur...
01:23 PM, Sep 25, 2012
As a part of her campaign, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will help advocate better access to anti-retro-viral drugs and treatment. ...
09:19 AM, Sep 25, 2012
New York: Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the newly appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, says she does not want to be just a "poster girl" for the organisation but will help break social barriers and stigmas that are attached with the disease. In her new role, Aishwarya will help raise awareness on issues related to stopping new HIV infections in children and advocate for increased access to anti-retroviral treatment....
09:07 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Washington: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived here on her first visit to the US, after being released from house arrest in 2010, during which she will meet President Barack Obama and be honoured with Congress' highest award for her human rights work. The 17-day visit will be her first to the country since she began her fight for democracy in Myanmar in 1988. During her visit,...
01:10 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Islamabad: An explosives-laden car rammed a vehicle leaving the US Consulate in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least three persons and injuring over a dozen others, including foreigners. The incident occurred a short distance from the US Consulate and an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Aabdara Road in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said the vehicle leaving the US...
11:18 AM, Sep 03, 2012
