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UK judge sets February 2020 for Assange extradition hearing

10:19 pm June 14, 2019

London: A British judge on Friday scheduled a full extradition hearing to begin in February next year for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted in the United States on espionage charges. Assange, 47, is accused of violating the Espionage Act by releasing a vast trove of classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about […]

May’s deal ‘only agreement possible’ for orderly Brexit: Barnier

10:12 pm June 14, 2019

Paris: The Brexit deal negotiated by Theresa May is the only one possible for an orderly withdrawal from the EU, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Friday as the race to succeed the British prime minister hots up. “I repeat calmly that the United Kingdom still wants to leave the European Union… so the […]

French envoy meets ISRO chief

10:27 pm June 13, 2019

New Delhi: French envoy Alexandre Ziegler met Chairperson of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan on Thursday and discussed ways to further space cooperation between the two countries. “Excellent meeting with Dr K Sivan, Chairman of @isro and his team. We are working extensively to reach a major milestone in our 60-year-old spatial cooperation. Our […]

UN rights chief says troubled by Hong Kong violence

China says UN rights chief ‘always’ welcome in Xinjiang

5:32 pm June 13, 2019

Geneva: China said Thursday that the UN human rights chief had an open invitation to visit Xinjiang, a region where some one million mostly Muslim minorities are held in internment camps. Beijing’s new ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Chen Xu, reiterated the government’s denial of the existence of camps there, insisting the region had “vocational education training”, especially for youth […]

Let’s tree again: Macron offers Trump replacement ‘friendship’ oak

12:32 pm June 13, 2019

Paris: French president Emmanuel Macron will send a replacement oak tree to US President Donald Trump after the original was dug up from the White House garden and died. The French leader offered the young oak to Trump during a state visit to Washington in 2018, and the two shovelled dirt around it under the […]