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RANGAPARA (ASSAM): Warning that no bank defaulter will be spared, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Congress of helping the rich usurp people’s money and claimed his government has “tightened the screws” on the “looters” who were now fleeing due to fear of going to jail. Hitting back after his government faced criticism over [...]

Saturday was a big day for Bernie Sanders’ quest for the Democratic presidential nomination as he swept to resounding victories in the caucus states of Hawaii, Washington and Alaska. But the delegate math is still in Hillary Clinton’s favor. ‘Western Saturday’ on CNN in 90 seconds 01:33 “We knew things were going to improve as [...]

Boris Johnson and Chuka Umunna engaged in a terse public row over the UK’s future within the EU during a radio phone-in. The Mayor was accused by the Labour MP of entering the debate for Brexit for personal gain, prompting a furious response. Both men told each other to “man up” as they argued over [...]

BERLIN, March 15 — Berlin police are investigating a car bomb that exploded Tuesday morning on a city street, killing the driver. The 3 a.m. blast in western Berlin’s Charlottenburg neighborhood flipped the vehicleinto the air as it traveled toward the city’s center. The explosion littered the street, the Bismarkstrasse, with debris, police spokesman Stefan [...]

Mussolini and Hitler came to power through elections, China’s Global Times reminded readers Monday. Now an “abusively racist and extremist” candidate is on the rise in the United States, it says. Maybe democracy isn’t such a good idea after all. In an editorial Monday, China’s state-owned Global Times newspaper used Donald Trump’s rise to gloat about [...]

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday that Russia would begin pulling its military from Syria, potentially winding down nearly six months of airstrikes that bolstered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and dealt a grave blow to Syrian rebels. Putin late Monday said that Russia would withdraw the “main part” of the military deployment to [...]