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Clay (West Virginia) [USA], Nov. 16 : Mayor Beverly Whaling of Clay in West Virginia has resigned after she came under fire for approvingly commenting on a racist Facebook post calling First Lady Michelle Obama ‘an ape in heels’.Town recorder Joe Colem…

By Smita Prakash Washington DC [USA], Nov. 16 : They are a basket of ‘dejectables’, if I may coin a word. Completely devastated that they lost an election that was theirs to win, but Hillary Clinton did deliver a dud.Granted that she did poll more vote…

Washington [USA], Nov. 16 : The United States has alleged that Russia let the residents of the besieged city of East Aleppo starve as it did not allow aid and food reach the city despite a three week halt in airstrikes.State Department spokeswoman Eliz…

Washington [USA], Nov. 16 : Condemning the renewed airstrikes in Easter Aleppo by Syrian ally Russia, the United States has called it a violation of international law.State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said in a Tuesday press briefing, “We …

Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 16 : Pakistan Interior Ministry has asked the Turkish staff of Pak-Turk schools and colleges to leave the country by November 20 ahead of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit.This comes as in August, Islamabad had p…

Kathmandu [Nepal], Nov. 15 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was called on Tuesday by China’s newly appointed Ambassador to the country Yu Hong at his official residence in Baluwatar.According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Secre…

Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov. 15 : About 900,000 Afghan refugees have returned this year from Pakistan and Iran surpassing all previous years, said Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR) on Tuesday.More than 600,000 refugees have retur…

Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov.15 : Bangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be placing a proposal on the formation of an impartial election commission (EC) for the next national polls on behalf of the 20-party alliance at a city hotel o…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 15 : Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that his party remains firm on its decision to boycott the joint session of parliament to be held later this week.He said that holding a joint session parliamen…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 15 : Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Azmat Saeed, who was hearing the proceedings related to the Panama Leaks case on Tuesday said, documents submitted by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have no link to it.”The documents a…