Published On: October 25, 2017 01:24 AM NPT By: Sangeet Sangroula
The congress also agreed to include statements in the party charter that the CPC will uphold its absolute leadership over the People's Liberation Army.
Published On: October 24, 2017 01:32 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Oct 24: The ruling Communist Party on Tuesday formally lifted Xi Jinping’s status to China’s most powerful ruler in decades, setting the stage for the authoritarian leader to tighten his grip over the country while pursuing an increasingly muscular foreign policy and military expansion.
Published On: October 24, 2017 12:16 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Oct 24: A fallen soldier’s angry widow joined the stormy dispute with President Donald Trump on Monday over his response to her husband’s death, declaring that his failure to remember the soldier’s name in last week’s condolence call “made me cry.” He retorted that the call was “very respectful” and her accusation about her husband’s name simply wasn’t true.
Published On: October 24, 2017 10:24 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Oct 24: The U.S. special forces unit ambushed by Islamic militants in Niger didn’t call for help until an hour into their first contact with the enemy, the top U.S. general said Monday, as he tried to clear up some of the murky details of the assault that killed four American troops and has triggered a nasty political brawl.
Published On: October 24, 2017 10:16 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Oct 24: Within the next three decades, floods that used to strike the New York City area only once every 500 years could occur every five years, according to a new scientific study released just days before the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy.
Published On: October 23, 2017 06:02 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 23: Authorities in northeastern Nigeria say 13 people have been killed by a suicide bombing in Maiduguri.
Published On: October 23, 2017 05:52 PM NPT By: Associated Press
CLARK, Philippines, Oct 23: Japan's defense minister asserted Monday that North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities have grown to an "unprecedented, critical and imminent" level.
Published On: October 23, 2017 03:32 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BARCELONA, Oct 23: Catalonia’s regional parliament will hold a plenary meeting on Thursday, a lawmaker with the ruling Catalan separatist coalition said Monday. Many fear the session will become a cover for a vote on declaring independence from Spain.
Published On: October 23, 2017 03:21 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIRUT, Oct 23: The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from IS by government troops over the weekend, activists said Monday.
Published On: October 22, 2017 04:28 PM NPT By: Associated Press
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Oct 22: The Latest on the hurricane relief concert attended by a five living ex-presidents (all times local):