EU Trade Chief: Europe is ready to retaliate for US auto tariffs

Published On: November 15, 2018 11:06 AM NPT By: Agencies

BRUSSELS, Nov 15: European Union trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Wednesday the EU had prepared a list of potential retaliation targets in case the US President Donald Trump decides to impose auto tariffs on EU member states.

Draft Brexit plan approved by British cabinet, released to public

Published On: November 15, 2018 10:55 AM NPT By: Agencies

LONDON, Nov 15: Britain's cabinet has backed Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement, the prime minister has confirmed. She said that the deal is the best that could be negotiated and is in the interest of the country.

SINGAPORE, Nov 14: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed criticism from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and other leaders Wednesday over her government’s treatment of its ethnic Rohingya Muslims.

CALIFORNIA, Nov 14:  The number of people who have lost their lives in the wildfires in the US western state of California increased to 48 on Wednesday, Sheriff of the Butte County in California Kory Honea said.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: The Japanese government expects to take in some 345,000 foreign workers through fiscal 2023 to make up for the country's labor shortage, media reports said on Wednesday.

VIRGINIA, Nov 14: CIA report obtained by the ACLU lays bare the details of the agency's "enhanced interrogation" program, including tactics so disturbing even CIA agents were reluctant to implement them.

BROOKLYN, Nov 14: Drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman had been framed by corrupt US and Mexican officials who let his chief lieutenant remain at large to lead the Sinaloa cartel instead, his defense claimed, at the start of the high-profile trial.

Asian leaders push toward pacts on South China Sea, trade

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:46 AM NPT By: Associated Press

SINGAPORE, Nov 14 : Leaders from Southeast Asia, China and other neighboring countries met in Singapore on Wednesday and cited progress on keeping peace in the contentious South China Sea as evidence that the region is managing to handle such issues on its own.

Sri Lanka crisis deepens with no-confidence motion passed against PM

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:34 AM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, Nov 14 : Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government on Wednesday, opposition lawmakers said, throwing the country deeper into crisis.

CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects

Published On: November 14, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 : Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks.