NDTV: Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected president on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government in a coup. His carefully choreographed journey from top general to civilian president follows a lopsided election in December […]
BBC: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down from his post, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on social media that George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st chief of staff of […]
BBC: More than 100 experts on international law have signed an open letter expressing “profound concern” about what they see as serious violations of international law by the US, Israel and Iran in the Middle East war. They say the US-Israeli decision to attack on Iran was a clear breach of the United Nations Charter, […]
BBC: Democracy “kills” and the people of Burkina Faso must “forget” it, the country’s military ruler has said in an interview aired on state television. Capt Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in a coup three years ago, suggested most Africans do not want the system of democracy and that Burkina Faso had its own, alternative […]
BBC: France has banned a major gathering of Muslims in the northern Paris suburbs, saying it could be a terrorist target. The four-day Annual Encounter of Muslims of France was due to open on Friday at an exhibition centre in Le Bourget, attracting tens of thousands of people from across Europe. But according to the […]
BBC: The excitement was palpable as the four Artemis II astronauts spoke to Earth on day two of their journey around the Moon on a range of issues from faulty toilets to sleeping in space, to the weight they were carrying with this historic mission. Commander Reid Wiseman started the live broadcast by recalling the […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/CAIRO, , April 3 – President Donald Trump said the U.S. “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran”, reiterating vows to increase the ferocity of attacks on its infrastructure, as dozens of countries sought ways to restart vital energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Nearly five weeks after it started with a joint U.S.-Israeli […]
BBC: The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission have now left the Earth’s orbit, after their Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for a final push towards the Moon. The five minute and 55 second engine burn, known as the translunar injection (TLI), went “flawlessly”, Nasa’s Dr Lori Glaze said afterwards. And from the […]
BBC: Just seven days after he made the fateful decision to launch his coup against the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on 1 February 2021, General Min Aung Hlaing made a promise; to hold elections, and return to civilian rule, within a year. It has taken him five years to fulfil that promise. […]
BBC: A 19th Century painting by iconic artist Raja Ravi Varma has become the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold, setting a new auction record. The painting, Yashoda and Krishna, was sold for 1.67bn rupees ($17.9m; £13.6m) at a Saffronart auction in Delhi on Wednesday. It beat the previous record set by MF Husain’s Untitled […]