Rome, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy's national strategic analysis committee met on Wednesday to assess the security threat pose by Islamic extremist networks in the wake of the deadly Strasbourg Christmas market attack, Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said.


Italy's strategic analysis committee meets after Strasbourg attack


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Jerusalem, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday said that the European Union (EU) should treat Italy and France equally over their higher than originally planned budget deficits next year.


Salvini accuses EU of double standards over Italy's budget


Rome, Dec 13 (IANS/AKI) Italy is "closely watching" developments relating to the "tragic" gun attack on a Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi tweeted on Wednesday.


Italy following 'tragic' Strasbourg attack: Foreign Minister


A scooterist died in the North Goa's beach village of Anjuna, after ramming into a car owned by Bollywood actress Zareen Khan, police said on Wednesday.


Scooterist dies after ramming into Zareen Khan's car in Goa


US President Donald Trump's former long-term personal attorney, Michael Cohen was sentenced here on Wednesday to 36 months in prison for tax fraud and campaign finance violations arising from payoffs he made during the 2016 campaign to women who claimed to have had affairs with the then-candidate.


Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen sentenced to 3 years in jail


US President Donald Trump's former long-term personal attorney, Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to a series of crimes, including campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress.


Trump's ex-lawyer sentenced to 3 years in jail


The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed its own decisions and commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment of one M.A. Antony from Kerala and that of Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik from Maharashtra, citing socio-economic background of the Kerala man for relaxing the sentence.


SC reverses its own orders, commutes death sentence to life imprisonment for two


The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea by low-cost airline IndiGo and SpiceJet challenging the Meghalaya High Court order directing them to start the flights from Shillong from December 15.


SC to hear IndiGo, SpiceJet plea against flights from Shillong


A man has been jailed here for 60 days and fined 20,000 dirhams (around Rs 4 lakh) for calling his fiancee an "idiot" in a WhatsApp message.


Man jailed in UAE for calling fiancee 'idiot' on WhatsApp


A 38-year-old Indian man has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the US on commercial airline flights, authorities said.


Indian charged with smuggling foreign nationals into US


A Canadian court has granted bail to Chinese tech company Huawei's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who has been accused of helping the firm dodge American sanctions on Iran, while she awaits a hearing on extradition to the US.


Canadian court frees Huawei CFO on bail


The National Company Law Tribunal's (NCLT) city bench has ordered winding up of 13 defunct companies of the Saradha Group and directed the official liquidator to take possession of assets and properties of all these companies.


Chit fund case: NCLT orders winding up of Saradha Group's 13 firms


Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to tampering with a 1Malaysia Development Berhad  (1MDB) state fund audit report.


1MDB probe: Ex-Malaysian PM pleads not guilty to audit tampering


A gunman shot and killed four people at a church in Brazil on Tuesday before turning the gun on himself, media reported.


5 dead in church mass shooting in Brazil


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will take part in the closing day of the intra-Yemeni political consultations on December 13 in Sweden, his press office said on Tuesday.


Guterres to attend intra-Yemeni talks in Sweden


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned  that the Lebanese Hezbollah militia will be dealt "unimaginable blows" if it resists Israel's recent operation to destroy cross-border tunnels.


Netanyahu threats Hezbollah with 'unimaginable blows'


At least one person was killed and nine wounded in a shooting near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, media reported.


1 dead, 9 injured in France's Strasbourg shooting


US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he would be "proud to shut down the government for border security" during a heated meeting with Democratic congressional leaders inside the White House.


Trump, Democratic Congress leaders exchange blasts over border wall


At least five people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday after a fireworks explosion outside a church in the central Mexican state of Queretaro, the local government said.


5 dead in fireworks blast in Mexico


Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday denied that the tech giant favours the more progressive political currents, in contrast to what some legislators and media outlets have claimed, in his first appearance before the US Congress.


Sundar Pichai denies political bias to Congress


BBC's Director General Tony Hall on Tuesday said that the network stands by its 2017 expose of extrajudicial killings by rangers in Kaziranga National Park and that the organisation's previous letters to the Indian government do not constitute an apology.

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