Saturday, April 27, 2024
NEW DELHI — Reaffirming their commitment to strengthen bilateral strategic partnership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged views on “regional and global developments of mutual interest” with his Italian counterpart Georgia Meloni du...
25 Apr 2024
SEOUL — North Korea on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthening ties with Russia on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the first-ever summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kim ...
25 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — Hundreds of students have been arrested on US campuses as protests against Washington’s support for Israel are surging sea to sea. By Wednesday, the protests that started last week at the Ivy League Columbia University campus in New Yo...
25 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Thursday warned that NATO nuclear facilities, if permanently located on the Polish territory, will become a military target for Russia. “The expansion of the practice of joint NATO nu...
25 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — The US Congress has approved a $61-billion aid package for Ukraine after months of stalling. The US Senate on Tuesday approved the bill with 79 votes in the 100-seat upper chamber days after the US House of Representatives on Saturday ...
24 Apr 2024
STRASBOURG — The European Parliament is set to vote Wednesday on stricter limit values against air pollution. New upper limits are to apply from 2030 for particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2), among others. Representa...
24 Apr 2024
TEHRAN — A stadium ban for women is to be reintroduced in Iran, multiple local news reports said on Wednesday. The reports said that the Iranian FA has ordered the ban to be imposed in the north-western city of Tabriz in the wake of “repulsiv...
24 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden is set to sign a historic bill regarding a huge foreign aid package on Wednesday, that will also ban TikTok in the country if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake within a year. The US Senate ...
24 Apr 2024
KIEV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine would soon get the largest-ever military aid package from Britain worth 500 million pounds ($619 million). The package will contain Storm Shadow and other types of missiles, hundre...
24 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia will intensify attacks on logistics centres and storage facilities of Western weapons in Ukraine, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said. In proportion to the threats posed by the US and its allies, Russia will continue to impr...
24 Apr 2024
BEIRUT — The damage caused by Israel to the agricultural field and other sectors in southern Lebanon is worth more than $3 billion, said Lebanese Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan. Hajj Hassan added on Tuesday that the Ministry updates daily a...
24 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — Pressing the case for Security Council reforms, India has highlighted the consensus arrived at the more representative G20 Summit on issues that could not make it through the UN’s highest decision-making body stuck in a ̶...
24 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea is set to launch a homegrown earth observation nanosatellite into space this week, as part of its plan to create the country’s satellite constellation by 2027, the country’s science ministry said on Tuesday. Accordin...
23 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — Southern Israeli border areas came under renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday, 200 days since the October 7 attacks which sparked the current conflict. Four rockets were intercepted by Israel’s missile defence system on Tuesday...
23 Apr 2024
ISTANBUL — Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian has condemned “planned” sanctions against his country over the major drone and missile attack on Israel earlier this month as “unlawful” and “regrettable.R...
23 Apr 2024
LONDON — UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak said “nothing will stand in our way” of getting flights to Rwanda off the ground, as the government braced itself for legal challenges to the scheme to send asylum seekers to the east African countr...
23 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched about 35 rockets toward northern Israel while Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement. The rockets triggered air raid sirens in the city of Safe...
23 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Russia will take necessary measures to ensure its security if Poland deploys nuclear weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Polish President Andrzej Duda said earlier on Monday that Poland is ready to host US nuclear weapons in the...
23 Apr 2024
DAMASCUS — A convoy of US forces plundered more Syrian sources, taking out trucks of oil and grain through an illegal crossing with Iraq, the media reported. According to the state news agency SANA report released on Monday, 69 vehicles, including ...
23 Apr 2024
BANGKOK — The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) opened its 80th session in Bangkok on Monday, with global and regional leaders calling for digital innovation to bolster the effort required to achieve the...
22 Apr 2024
BANGKOK — The military junta in crisis-hit Myanmar has responded to the takeover of the important trading town of Myawaddy by rebel groups with heavy airstrikes. Since Friday, the army has dropped at least 130 bombs over the town on the border with...
22 Apr 2024
MADRID — The separatist left-wing coalition EH Bildu celebrated a historic success in the Basque regional elections on Sunday. With around 95 per cent of votes counted the alliance, which advocates independence for the region in the north of Spain,...
22 Apr 2024
SEOUL — South Korea will join hands with the US in optimising nuclear proliferation resistance in its research reactors for export, Seoul’s science ministry said on Monday. A joint statement issued by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the U...
22 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON/KIEV — The US House of Representatives approval — after months of wrangling — of a nearly $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine has not come too late, but the delay has had real consequences, NATO’s Chief Jens St...
22 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli war Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call to reconsider potential sanctions against an Israeli military unit, his office said. The call with Blinken came after Israeli media repo...
22 Apr 2024
