Germany’s Left Party Secures First State Governorship
BERLIN—A quarter-of-a-century after the Berlin Wall fell, the successor to East Germany’s ruling party claimed its biggest political prize on Friday when it secured its first state governorship in the reunified country. The election of The Left party’s Bodo Ramelow as premier of Thuringia,... read more »
In Ashton Carter, Nominee for Defense Secretary, a Change in Direction
Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders,” Mr. Obama said in announcing Mr. Carter’s nomination in the Roosevelt Room, which was filled with the mandarins of Washington’s foreign policy establishment. “He was at the table in the Situation Room, he... read more »
China ex-security chief’s fall cements Xi’s grip on power
The Chinese Communist Party’s decision to arrest and expel former security chief Zhou Yongkang is a bold step that demonstrates President Xi Jinping’s determination to consolidate power “to a degree unseen” in decades, observers said Saturday. Zhou — who retired from... read more »
LIVE: Army seizes Pak-made arms, food packets from slain terrorists
Taking a jibe at PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti over her statement blaming the media for yesterday’s terror attacks, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy today said the high voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir is a matter for celebration, and added that the PDP chief should now tell the... read more »
Obama Wants More Police Funding After Ferguson Unrest
President Barack Obama is calling for millions of dollars more in federal spending to improve police forces around the country, in response to the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a... read more »
Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Maoists took away weapons; Rajnath arrives to assess situation
Raipur: A day after 14 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed in a Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, it emerged on Tuesday that the ultras not... read more »
At least 36 feared dead in northeast Kenya attack: Red Cross
NAIROBI: At least 36 people are feared dead after gunmen staged a fresh attack on a quarry in northeast Kenya, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks. The... read more »
Obama Offers New Standards on Police Gear
WASHINGTON — President Obama, grappling with how to respond to the racial unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and a wave of anger at law enforcement officials across the country, said Monday that he... read more »
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan keeps key rates unchanged; EMIs won&#...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan dashed expectations of the government, consumers and business leaders as he kept lending rates unchanged on Tuesday despite plunging inflation and... read more »
