2019 is promising to be a great year for the stargazers. In fact, the first month of the year is going to bring a rare lunar event - Super Blood Moon – to excite amateur astronomers. This particular Super Blood Moon is actually going to be a trifecta of lunar events – a total lunar eclipse, super blood moon, and a “Wolf Moon” - and is also being called the Super Blood Wolf…

US President Donald Trump is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a second summit by the end of February, the White House says. The announcement came after Mr Trump met top North Korean negotiator Kim Yong-chol at the White House. He had been expected to deliver a letter from Kim Jong-un to Mr Trump. Little progress has been made on denuclearisation since their historic summit in Singapore…

A gunfight was underway following a blast at a hotel and office complex in a leafy Nairobi neighbourhood Tuesday. A blast at the DusitD2 compound, which includes a hotel and several office buildings housing international companies, was heard from AFP’s offices some five kilometres (three miles) away, AFP reports. Simon Crump, who works at one of the offices, said workers had barricaded themselves…

Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, will help choose the new World Bank President, the White House has said. Jessica Ditto, a White House spokeswoman, said on Monday that Ivanka Trump was asked because “she’s worked closely with the World Bank’s leadership for the past two years”, The New York Times reported. Ivanka Trump, who had been…

Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday that lawmakers blocking Brexit is now a more likely outcome than Britain leaving the European Union without a deal, reports Reuters. Parliament is deadlocked over how to proceed with Brexit, Britain's biggest shift in foreign and trade policy in more than 40 years, and is expected to vote against May's deal on Tuesday, plunging the departure from…

Amid the longest government shutdown in the US history, a majority say President Donald Trump bears more responsibility for it than the Democrats in Congress, and the President’s disapproval rating has climbed five points since last month, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Negotiations between the US President and congressional leaders have stalled as neither side seems willing…

Xi pointed out during the talks Kim’s visit to China at the beginning of 2019, which marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of China-North Korea diplomatic relationship, fully embodied the great importance Kim attaches to the two countries’ traditional friendship, Xinhua reported on Thursday. “I highly appreciate it, and, on behalf of the CPC (Communist Party of China),…

Prime Minister Imran Khan has again accused New Delhi of opting out of a bilateral dialogue and claimed that anti-Pakistan sentiments were being aroused in India for the sake of campaigning for the forthcoming general election. Khan made the comments in an interview to Turkish broadcaster TRT in which he said that two nuclear-armed neighbours opting for the resolution of bilateral issues through a…

British Prime Minister Theresa May ended speculation on Sunday that a vote on her under-fire Brexit deal may be deferred again, insisting that the vote would go-ahead in the House of Commons as planned next week. In an interview on the BBC’s main weekly political programme, May said: “I want to see this deal go through. If the deal is not voted on, then actually we are going to be in uncharted…

An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia's Molucca islands on Sunday, followed by a series of aftershocks, but with no tsunami risk, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit at a depth of 60.5 km and was followed by aftershocks of a magnitude of 5.0 to 5.1. Samud Sergi, an official from the search and rescue…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Friday to continue coordination on Syrian issues during a telephonic conversation. The two leaders discussed the situation in Syria and recent developments, and agreed to continue coordination between Israeli and Russian militaries, according to a statement issued by the prime minister’s office, Xinhua news…

The US House of Representatives has passed a spending package that would end the partial government shutdown amid a veto threat from the White House. The bills were passed late on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

China on Friday confirmed that a vice ministerial level delegation from the United States will visit Beijing next week for "proactive and constructive talks" to flesh out agreements reached between President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Donald Trump in Argentina last month. The talks on January 7-8 will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two the countries over trade since Xi…