BBC: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow is ready to provide “uninterrupted shipments” of fuel to India, as Delhi faces pressure from the US to stop buying Russian oil. Putin, speaking alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, questioned earlier why India should be punished for buying oil when the US itself buys […]
BBC: David Kuloba’s mother warned him about going to Russia after he accepted a job as a security guard advertised by a recruitment agency in Kenya. At first the family, who live in the Kenyan capital’s crowded informal settlement of Kibera had been excited when he said he had found work abroad – it sounded […]
BBC: The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship. On his first day in office in January, President Donald Trump signed an order to end birthright citizenship for those born to parents who are in the country illegally, but […]
BBC: India’s travel chaos has worsened after the country’s largest airline IndiGo cancelled hundreds of scheduled flights on Friday after three days of widespread disruption across its network. The carrier, which has a 60% market share in India and flies more than 2,000 flights a day, has been facing pilot shortages after it failed to adapt to […]
NDTV: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is in India on a two-day state visit, received a tri-services guard of honour at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday morning in the presence of President Droupadi Murmu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan were present at […]
ཨེ་བི་སི།སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༤ ལུ་ དབང་འཛིན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ འདས་པའི་བདུན་ཕྲག་ནང་ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡའི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཁག་གི་ ས་གནས་ཚུ་ནང་ ཆུ་རུད་དང་ ས་རུད་ཀྱི་ རྐྱེན་ངན་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མིའི་ གྱངས་ཁ་དེ་ ༡,༥༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ནུག་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
Reuters: TAIPEI, Dec 5 – Taiwan has been “very moved” by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments last month on peace and stability even in the face of strong pressure, Premier Cho Jung-tai said on Friday. China and Japan are in their worst diplomatic crisis in years, after Takaichi said last month in parliament a hypothetical Chinese […]
BBC: When undergraduate Miles Kwan launched a petition demanding answers from Hong Kong authorities after one of the city’s deadliest fires last week, he was arrested for sedition. The ferocious blaze had ravaged a densely populated housing estate in the northern Tai Po district, killing at least 159 people and displacing thousands – leaving the city with […]
BBC: The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised to the ex-leader’s family for the first time. Tetsuya Yamagami, who earlier pleaded guilty to murder, told the court on Thursday that he felt “deeply sorry” towards Abe’s widow, Akie. Yamagami used a homemade gun to shoot Abe during a political campaign […]
BBC: President Vladimir Putin has warned again that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it, rejecting any compromise over how to end the war in Ukraine. “Either we liberate these territories by force, or Ukrainian troops will leave these territories,” he told India Today. Moscow controls around 85% […]
NDTV: Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Russian President Vladimir Putin at Delhi airport this evening. Before both headed out in the same car, the two leaders shook hands, hugged each other and exchanged greetings. Russia’s state-owned news agency Sputnik reported that in the airport visit to greet the Russian President and his friend, PM Modi […]
