World
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US Defense Secretary set to meet Chinese counterpart next week
Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to meet his Chinese counterpart for the first time during a trip to Singapore for a defence summit next week, CNN reported citing a…
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Russia puts more strength behind ”creeping” Ukraine advance
Kyiv: Reinforced Russian troops backed by airstrikes pummeled a portion of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, blowing up bridges and shelling apartment buildings as they fought to capture two cities that would put…
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US keeps Pakistan as ‘Country of Particular Concern’ for religious freedom
Islamabad: The United States has kept Pakistan’s designation as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ as part of its annual International Religious Freedom Report. The report reviewed the state of religious freedoms in…
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China to launch three-person mission to build space station
Beijing: China will launch three astronauts on a spacecraft on Sunday on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country’s space station currently orbiting the earth, China Manned Space Agency…
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Nickelodeon and UN in India vouch for sustainable planet
New Delhi: On the eve of the World Environment Day (June 5), Nickelodeon, a kids’ entertainment space major, has joined forces with the United Nations (UN) in India for a flagship campaign in…
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Putin blames West for food, energy crises
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the West for emerging global food and energy crises and repeated his government’s offers of safe passage for ships exporting grain from Ukraine if…
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S.Korean, US navies hold combined exercise
Seoul: South Korea and the US staged a combined exercise in international waters off Okinawa this week, the military said on Saturday. The three-day exercise, which ended on Saturday, was aimed at…
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Myanmar bank blacklists 137 companies for violating regulation
Yangon: The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) has added 137 more companies to a blacklist for failing to deposit export earnings into accounts in domestic banks within the prescribed periods. The decision came…
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UN Security Council urges rebels in DR Congo to lay down arms
United Nations: The UN Security Council has urged all domestic armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to lay down their arms. “The Security Council urges all domestic armed groups…
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UN provides $20 million for drought emergency in Somalia
Mogadishu: The UN relief envoy in Somalia has allocated $20 million from the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to provide immediate assistance to communities at risk due to drought in priority locations. Adam Abdelmoula,…
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Google cancels Dalit activist’s talk, senior employee resigns in protest
A Dalit activist named Thenmozhi Soundararajan had her scheduled talk at Google News cancelled after employees claimed she was “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders. Tanuja Gupta, a senior…
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Russia’s war in Ukraine completes 100 days
Kiev: Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine completed 100 days on Friday, with Moscow’s forces now in control of 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory. On the eve of the anniversary, Ukraine’s President…
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South Korean users file police complaint against Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Seoul: A coalition of consumers on Friday filed a police case against Google’s top executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, for the tech giant’s in-app billing system that forces domestic app developers to…
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EU publishes sixth package of Russian sanctions in official journal
Moscow: The European Union published information about the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes the oil embargo and the SWIFT ban of Sberbank, in its official journal on Friday. The…
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Global wellbeing is at risk: Guterres warns at Stockholm+50
Stockholm: Global wellbeing is at risk and it’s in large part because “we haven’t kept our promises on the environment”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned at the Stockholm+50 to spur urgent action…
