Category: WORLD

Robert Mugabe’s role with the WHO will be to tackle non-communicable diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes and asthma, across Africa. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been removed as a WHO goodwill ambassador, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday following an outrage among donors and rights groups at his appointment. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made the appointment at a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Uruguay on Wednesday, said in a statement that he had listened to those expressing concerns. The UN-run World Health Organisation (WHO) has provoked outrage by bestowing…

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Carlos Arthur Nuzman was Brazil’s Olympic Committee president for 22 years before being involved in a corruption scandal. Brazilian justices of the sixth Panel of the Superior Court of Justice granted habeas corpus to Carlos Arthur Nuzman, 76, former chief of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, who was under preventive detention, on Thursday. Brazil’s Supreme Court decided on Thursday (October 19th) to release Carlos Arthur Nuzman, former president of Brazil’s Olympic Committee (COB). Nuzman was arrested on October 5th, accused of being part of a vote-buying scheme to have the city…

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The government would invoke Article 155 of Spain’s constitution allowing it to strip Catalonia of its self-governance. Spain’s central government announced Thursday it would quickly move to take control of the autonomous Catalonia and restore “constitutional order” after the region’s president refused to back away from a push for independence. Spain’s government said it would hold a special Cabinet meeting and “approve the measures that will be sent to the Senate to protect the general interest of all Spaniards.” Catalonia’s president Carles Puigdemont answered Spain’s demand for clarity by sending…

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Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia ran a hugely popular blog in which she relentlessly highlighted cases of alleged high-level corruption by politicians from across party lines. Daphne Caruana Galizia, a investigative journalist in Malta, has been killed after a powerful bomb exploded in her car, police said. The force of the blast reduced her car to pieces and catapulted the journalist’s body into a nearby field, witnesses said. She leaves a husband and three sons. Malta officially known as the Republic of Malta is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. Daphne Caruana had also…

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By: Rakesh Lohumi ( Sr. Editor-ICN Group) SHIMLA: While the plains of northern India are shivering under thick fog, the hills of Himachal and adjoining Himalayan states are experiencing a warm winter. The paradoxical scenario provides an indication of the severe environmental degradation that the region has suffered in recent years due to wrong development policies. It is peak winter and normally the high and mid mountain ranges should have been wrapped in snow. However, there is hardly any snow and the weather in all the hill stations is pleasant like…

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Trump has engaged in an escalating war of words with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un amid rising tensions between the two countries.  North Korea has fired 22 missiles, including two across Japan, during 15 tests since February this year, drawing a sharp reaction from the US and its allies. “It’s time to take Trump seriously as he keeps hinting, over and over, that he wants to go to war with North Korea,” Murphy tweeted. US President Donald Trump has said that he has a different approach on North Korea’s recent…

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By: Masud Javed (Bureau Consultant-International Affairs) ICN Group  NEW DELHI: The fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 yielded a wind of change which swept East Europe. The people living in the counties allied to the erstwhile Soviet Union ( Warsaw Pact members namely, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania), revolted against their socialist/communist governments and finally  managed to bring in democratic form of governance and leaders. In other words, they joined the capitalist bloc with an exception of Slovakia which remained in the socialist bloc. Not only that, even the Soviet Union could not stand…

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday announced the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons as winner of the $1.1 million prize. The Geneva-based organization ICAN “has been a driving force in prevailing upon the world’s nations to pledge to cooperate … in efforts to stigmatize, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons,” committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in the announcement. “It is a great honour to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 in…

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The tenth day, this year celebrated on October 1, is important as it is a day of observance and is called the day of ‘Ashura’. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar and is considered a sacred month. The tenth day, this year celebrated on October 1, is important as it is a day of observance and is called the day of ‘Ashura’. Millions of Muslims will mark the date by saying prayers and fasting. Others meanwhile will take part in mourning congregations, chest beatings and self-flagellation. The…

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