Jaishankar discusses key regional and global issues with French counterpart
Paris, Feb 21 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held wide-ranging and productive talks with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian here during which...
4 Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students’ education
TORONTO, 28 Mar: Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario said Thursday they launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and...
Very Important To Engage With Taliban, Says UN Chief
Geneva, Sep 13 (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for international engagement with the Taliban to avert an economic collapse in Afghanistan, insisting...
Pacific season’s 1st hurricane aims at Mexico tourist zone
MEXICO CITY , May 30 (AP) — Hurricane Agatha, the first of the eastern Pacific season, headed for a stretch of tourist beaches and...
US military says first aid shipment has been driven across a newly built US...
WASHINGTON, 17 May (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the...
Sri Lankan police give ultimatum to protestors to vacate main protest site and adjacent...
Colombo, Aug 3 (PTI) The Sri Lankan police on Wednesday set an August 5 deadline for the protesters to remove all illegal tents and...
UK inflation rate hits new 40-year high of 9.1%
LONDON , 22 Jul (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate hit a new 40-year high of 9.1% in the 12 months to May, figures showed...
Monkeypox virus case confirmed in UK after Nigeria travel link
London, May 8 (PTI) The UK health authorities have confirmed a case of monkeypox, which is a virus passed from infected animals such as...
Ukraine mourns dead from major Russian strike, vows response with underground weapons production
POLTAVA, 7 Sep: Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began, as...
Vietnamese real estate tycoon sentenced to life for billions in fraud in government graft...
HANOI, Vietnam, 17 Oct (AP) — A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was convicted Thursday of fraudulently obtaining property worth billions of dollars and sentenced...
Chinese commerce minister to hold talks in US amid disputes over tariffs and technology
BEIJING, 25 May (AP) — China’s commerce minister will hold talks with officials in the U.S. this week amid sharpening disputes over tariffs and...
7 dead as California mourns 3rd mass killing in 8 days
HALF MOON BAY, Calif., Jan 24 (AP) — A gunman killed seven people at two agricultural businesses in Northern California, plunging the state into...
Military: 4 Pakistani soldiers, 2 militants killed in raids
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 31 (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided two militant hideouts in a former Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan, triggering shootings that killed...
Packed Gaza hospitals warn that thousands could die as supplies run low and ground...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip, 15 Oct (AP) — Medics in Gaza warned Sunday that thousands could die as hospitals packed with wounded people ran...
UN agencies call for ‘humanitarian airbridge’
Berlin, Aug 22 (AP) The World Health Organization and UNICEF are calling for a humanitarian airbridge to be set up immediately to allow the...
Israeli official says Syria must not have chemical weapons
Tel Aviv, Dec 14 (AP) Israel's intelligence minister said Tuesday that Syria cannot be allowed to obtain chemical weapons, after a report emerged that...
Cyprus proposes to establish a sea corridor to deliver a stream of vital humanitarian...
NICOSIA, Cyprus, 31 Oct (AP) — Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East the logistics to establish...
Pak welcomes adoption of UNSC resolution allowing humanitarian aid into Afghanistan
Islamabad, Dec 23 (PTI) Pakistan on Thursday welcomed the adoption of a resolution by the UN Security Council that permits the flow of humanitarian...
Germany Sells Shares in Postal Company for $2.3 Billion to Help Finance Railway Improvements
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's state-owned development bank has sold shares in the company that owns the national postal service for about 2.17 billion euros...
Dubai says planned coal-fired power plant to instead use gas
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates , Feb 4 (AP) — A planned $3.4 billion coal-fired power plant in Dubai instead will be converted to use...