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News Analysis: How Europe to turn resolve into action on anti-terrorist strike

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The bloody terrorist attacks in Paris last week marked a watershed moment, triggering political leaders to take to the street to express their resolve in fighting terrorism. Some experts’ perspectives are that the European reaction in the next stage will definitely not be as simple as the word “fight,” as […]

ISIS threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million

Japan, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Two Japanese hostages, one demand from ISIS: Hand over $200 million, or else. The else being that the pair will meet the same gruesome fate as other captives held by the terrorist group, others who were shown in ISIS videos kneeling in orange jumpsuits in front of masked, black-clad men — […]

China denies being world’s No.1 economy

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Claims that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy were denied by the head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. “The NBS does not countenance these claims by some scholars and media organizations,” said bureau head Ma Jiantang at a press conference in […]

Three rescued, 22 missing after boat sinks in China’s Yangtze River

NANJING, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Rescuers have saved three people after a tug boat sank on the Yangtze River in east China’s Jiangsu Province on Thursday, said local rescue headquarters. Twenty-five people aboard the boat fell into the water, including eight foreigners — four Singaporeans, an Indonesian, a Malaysian, an Indian and a Japanese national […]

Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed expresses need for market share in India

New Delhi, Jan. 14 (NsNewsWire ) — Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said that the country has expressed to get its share in the Indian market during the inauguration of the first border haat (market) in the Tripura-Bangladesh border here. “We shall have to come to such a position where we can also take the […]

U.S. secretary of state unhurt in minor road accident in India

NEW DELHI, Jan. 13 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was unhurt Monday afternoon after his motorcade was involved in road accident in the western Indian state of Gujarat, while on the way to the airport to fly to Pakistan, said Indian police. Gujarat Police officials said two cars in Kerry’s motorcade were […]

Authorities hunt most wanted woman in France; fears of new terror attack

France, Jan. 11 (NsNewsWire) –French police forces continued Saturday the intense manhunt for the wife of one of the terrorists who was killed after taking hostages the day before at a kosher grocery store in Paris. Hayat Boumeddiene, who is suspected of being involved in the killing of a policewoman in a Paris suburb on […]

Chinese nuclear physicist receives nation’s top science award

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese nuclear physicist Yu Min who was behind the country’s first successful hydrogen bomb test won China’s top science and technology accolade on Friday. Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the award to Yu, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at an annual ceremony held to honor the most […]

French Terror Suspects Dead at Both Locations, Officials Say

France, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The French terror suspects are dead at both locations, according to the City Hall of Dammartin and the French ambassador to the U.S. And the hostage at Dammartin — held by two Charlie Hebdo attack suspects — is alive, the City Hall of Dammartin said, reports ABC news. The dramatic […]