Beijing: Abandoning its decades-old one-child policy, China will now allow all couples to have two children, according to a communique issued on Thursday by the Communist Party of China, Xinhua reported.
Rashad Hussain, of Indian heritage, has been appointed as US envoy and coordinator for Strategic Counter-Terrorism Communications to expand international engagement and partnerships to counter violent extremism.
Eleven days after a police officer in Alabama slammed a visiting Indian grandfather to the ground leaving him partially paralysed, the state governor has issued an apology, even as the officer pleaded not guilty.
IS militants captured over 40 people from the albu-Obeid Sunni tribe, including policemen and members of the government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group, in al-Baghdadi town, and executed them, Xinhua cited the official, who did not wish to be named
Members of the Hindu Temple Cultural Center in Bothell, 36 km from Seattle, in Washington state were shocked to find a red swastika spray-painted on the temple wall along with the words "Get Out" scrawled in large letters on Sunday.
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 was recorded off northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning.
